Primary role as an analyst using ANSYS software performing Modal, Static, and Explicit dynamics simulations in LS-Dyna.

Developed pulsed plasma thruster in coordination with another intern. Completed full design from creating the CAD model in SolidWorks, to designing the circuit, to building the thruster and its circuitry. Thruster was seen to fire by end of internship

Created numerical simulation of water precipitation in salt nodules which reside in the Atacama desert for determination of the habitability of these salt nodules. In addition created a numerical simulation of how much mass a spacecraft orbiting Saturn's moon Enceladus would collect from water vapor ejections from the moons south pole.

Over three successive summer Internships ran numerical simulations of weather patterns at Lake Untersee Antarctica as part of the effort to understand the environmental extremes in which life can survive