Undergraduate Research Assistant
Designed and developed and ran simulations for telescope pieces on Solidworks for the BLAST telescope. Also worked on the Simons Observatory Telescope LATR and optics tubes. Worked as part of a team of undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc researchers. -Engineered a telescope pivot for the BLAST telescope, executing force and buckle tests on Solidworks; engineered a pivot motor adhering to NASA guidelines, leading to successful mathematical formulas and physical testing.-Developed flight gondola components and authored a paper on open-sourcing for balloon telescopes, presenting findings at Balloontech conference in Minneapolis and NASA Wallops Flight Facility.-Performed stress, buckling, design, and topology finite element analysis on Solidworks software and wrote project reports. -Wrote a scientific paper to be published on the product line development of the pivot motor.
