Jack Gross Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Long Beach, California, United States

Designing manifolds, brackets, flanges, and routed tubes to meet mass, performance, and integration requirements.Performing finite element analysis (FEA) on parts to ensure margins on strength, seal gapping, bolt separation, and natural frequency.

Canoga Park

Designed flight parts and test specimens for Orion main engine thrust chamber.Designed and analyzed parts for Next Generation Radio Isotope Thermoelectric Generator.

Irvine, California, United States

• As part of the prototype and special projects department I designed and built tooling, fixtures, and prototypes with a fast turnaround time.
• Designed and built jigs, fixtures, and prototypes of vehicle accessories
• Supported operations at factory during start of production

Los Angeles, California, United States

• As part of the infrastructure team, I designed track for a Hyperloop system, as well as tooling
• Designed, analyzed, and built hardware for track infrastructure

Austin, TX

• As responsible engineer for the first stage pressurization system, I was responsible for the design, testing, and integration of fluid systems hardware on the first stage of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.
• Sized system components based on hand calculations and numerical simulations
• Designed, tested, and manufactured flight hardware with emphasis on performance, reliability, and cost

Hawthorne, CA

• I worked on solo projects within the production department to increase the speed of engine final integration and reduce issue tickets.I designed tooling and shop aids from start to finish, including requirements.
• work platforms
• tooling carts
• leak check cart
• fit-up tools
• protective barriers

Hawthorne, CA

• Designed tool and shop aids to improve efficiency of Merlin production

Hokkaido, Japan

• In the summer of 2016, I worked in Japan as part of an NSF fellowship. The goal of the project was to develop image processing scripts for detecting density gradients in supersonic flows.
• Created an image processing tool in python that uses digital image correlation to detect displacement of a background pattern in order to detect refraction caused by density gradients in the flow.
• Performed experiments with a supersonic wind tunnel to generate images of standing shock waves that were used to test the image processing scripts.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• As a teaching assistant I provided additional instruction for the following courses:
• Mechatronics
• Strength of Materials
• Compressible Fluids (graduate course)
• Incompressible FluidsIn addition to answering questions during office hours and grading exams, projects, and homework, I was also responsible for providing instruction during the hands on laboratory component for.

Los Angeles, CA

• Working as a research assistant in the laboratory of Professor Veronica Eliasson, I performed hands-on design, fabrication, operation, and analysis for experiments in the field of shock wave research.
• Designed and fabricated an exploding wire experiment to generate cylindrical shock waves
• Designed and performed experiments to explore the possibility of controlled shock focusing using multiple munitions.
• Created LabVIEW VIs for the control and automation of exploding wire experiment
• Created MATLAB scripts for the analysis of experimental results
• Presented results at several conferences, including the 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves, and the 68th meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Los Angeles, CA

• As a research assistant in the Combustion Physics Laboratory at USC, I designed, operated, and analyzed results from combustion experiments, including both solo and team projects.
• Made major upgrades to a Hele-Shaw cell experimental apparatus
• Designed and fabricated parts to upgrade to a Hele-Shaw cell experimental apparatus
• Performed experiments on hydrogen combustion in a Hele-Shaw cell to investigate hydrodynamic instabilities
• Worked as part of a team to iteratively design the geometry for a novel jet stirred turbulent combustion chamber, and created meshes for Fluent simulations to quantify the turbulence intensity field
• Presented findings at Socal Fluids, Western States Section of the Combustion Institute 2014 meeting, and the 35th International Symposium on Combustion

Atlanta, GA

• Worked as part of a team to design and optimize a truss braced wing aircraft
• Performed simulations for the behavior of micro air vehicles
• Created interactive tool to explore the effect of increased aircraft wingspan on airport utilization

Mcgregor, Texas

• Designed support hardware for Falcon 9 integration
• Used NASTRAN to perform FEA on parts to ensure performance
• Assisted in integration and test procedures
• Wrote procedure for tank entry and exit to reduce FOD

Huntsville, Alabama

• Performed experiments to quantify performance of optical flow sensor
• Wrote MATLAB scripts to evaluate experimental results

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Assisted in conducting experiments on brain machine interfaces using human subjects

Cairo, Egypt

Created aluminum rods impregnated with carbon nanotubes to test the effect of carbon nanotubes impregnation to increase the tensile strength of metals

Pasadena, CA

• Resolved conflicts in Doors requirements database for Launch and Cruise Phase Verification and Validation team of Mars Science Laboratory Mission
• Wrote test procedures for flight hardware

Cambridge MA

Created a MATLAB program with a GUI for the optimization of the transmission of a flapping robotic insect

Master’S Degree, Aerospace Engineering, 3.6

- Studied combustion and compressible fluid dynamics while performing relevant research - Worked as a teaching assistant

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aerospace Engineering, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Georgia Tech Underwater Hockey TeamStudied aerospace system engineering while working as a researcher in the.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering, 3.5

Activities and Societies: NanoSat Club, Robotics Club- Studied aerospace engineering with a focus on spaceflight - Obtained a minor is.