Mechanical design for Starship avionics

Develop a curriculum to teach engineering students the principles of drone flight and guide students in designing, prototyping, testing, and flying their own drones.Introduce and demonstrate standard operating procedure for laser cutting, soldering, and 3D printing equipment.Research and present options for flight components and manufacturing techniques.Create and implement lab safety procedures to minimize risk when performing static thrust tests and working with hardware and electronic components.

Designed, tested, implemented, and activated a nitrogen ground fluid system to fill the fairing release COPVSourced and ordered parts, modified PIDs, wrote test plans, work instructions, a procedure, autosequence, and a test report in support of the nitrogen ground fluid system.Investigated, tested, and implemented solutions to a pressure anomaly in the hydraulic fluid system on the strongback, which ensured pressure stayed below allowables during launch operations.Performed multiple procedures as a control room operator to validate various ground fluid systems’ operability in preparation for launch

Identified main failure modes of flight components and developed load cases to identify fundamental load paths through Space Ship 2's Air Data Boom.Performed stress analysis on structural components and substantiated their design using FEMAP to prove flight worthiness for commercial flight.

Lead a team of 40 in developing an autonomous fixed-wing aircraft to optimize aircraft weight-to-power ratio and glide time to enable successful payload delivery in search and rescue operations.Perform finite element analysis (FEA) to iteratively design aircraft components and ensure static safety margin and reduce stress on landing impact by 30%.Research 3D printing material properties to develop, prototype, and manufacture a dynamic landing leg design with thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to increase impact absorption and balanceIntroduce agile and lean project management methodology and software to give team members more independence while managing project progression, providing feedback early, and encouraging iteration.

Integrated and compiled a detailed overview of Mars Sample Return Surface Phase Operations to create a single, consolidated source of information, which served as an onboarding reference guide.Drove discussion and collaboration between key stakeholders of the Sample Retrieval Lander in order to resolve inconsistencies in understanding of vital mission elements.Developed a mission scheduling tool with MATLAB, which creates nominal staff scheduling plans from Mars orbiter passes and comm ops, eliminating the need for manual calculations.Simulated over 70 different scenarios to identify the greatest risks to the mission and propose solutions to optimize scheduling around human factors, reducing the number of overnight tactical planning shifts by 40%.

I studied the history of NASA, as well its past and current missions and Lunar objectives by completing a 4 week online course and final project. I was invited to the virtual onsite experience, where participants were placed in teams and given a mentor. Over the course of two weeks, we were tasked with creating a mission to either Mars or the Moon based on what we had learned, and present our mission to a panel of judges.