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Fluid dynamics and propulsion, aerospace and CFD analysis.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Research for the Rotating Machinery and Controls Lab (ROMAC). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies of circumferentially grooved annular seal flow fields for novel simplified bulk flow model development. High fidelity fluid simulations using commercial software (ANSYS). Fundamental flow field analysis towards efficient seal performance prediction software development.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, both lab and lecture specific. Air Breathing Propulsion - Provide support to students to aid in their understanding of course material, including a review of thermodynamics and compressible aerodynamics and the analysis of the mechanisms for and performance of aerospace propulsion systems.Aerodynamics and Mechanical Engineering Laboratory - Introduce and supervise students’ completion of laboratory exercises involving sub- and supersonic wind tunnel testing, hydrodynamic particle image velocimetry, and head impact injury data collection and analysis.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Research for the Aerospace Research Laboratory (ARL). Experimental fluid dynamics with a focus on particle image velocimetry (PIV) for applications in hypersonic flight and other complex flows. Analysis of post-processing methods to minimize uncertainty in PIV measurements in harsh environments.

Annville, Pa

-Monitor and assist students in their completion of physics laboratory exercises-Aid in students understanding of physics theory and problem-solving, encourage and demonstrate strong learning skills and habits

Annville, Pa

Member of the LVC Mathematical Physics Research Group researching quantum informationscience, specifically quantum entanglement and the properties of symmetric hypergraph states; assisted in the discovery of mathematical and physical properties and the technical writing of the accompanying proofs (resulted in a publication).

Gaithersburg, Md

Research position in the Engineering Laboratory, Systems Integration Division, Life Cycle Engineering Group on the Operations-Driven Performance Measurement for Design and Analysis Project.Summer Project Title: Towards a Workflow for Optimizing Machining Instructions Using Reusable Performance ModelsWorked with machining instructions using Python scripts to perform operations analysis and optimize machining parameters.

Urbana, Md

Managed restaurant kitchen and accompanying kitchen staff, prepared food.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

B.S., Physics, Mathematics, 3.97 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society) - President 2017-18, Vice President 2016-17 Mu Pi Epsilon (Math Honor.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society (treasurer), Men's Soccer Team