o Contributed to the design and build conversions of 3 campervans through CAD projects, CNC assistance, physical assembly, and installations of vehicle productso Modeled and rendered a pop-top mechanism for a customized and secure vehicle expansiono Researched, improved, and manufactured vehicle components for mass production to increase company saleso Created digital templates of complex van dimensions to devise and prototype standard templates that will be reused on future campervans *Received opportunity through Border Region Talent Pipeline K-16 Collaborative

o Collaborated with 13 students to develop a strategic orbital mission and design a conceptual spacecraft to collect preliminary data at a celestial body's sites deemed scientifically interesting in preparation for a future orbilander mission. o Researched existing thermal systems, and component manufacturers, and provided cost and time estimates to generate the appropriate thermal subcomponent of the mission vehicle. o Contributed to my team's preliminary design review detailing our mission approach and provided a final presentation to L'SPACE leadership.*Received opportunity through NASA's L'SPACE Program*Participated in Fall 2023 L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy

Project Title: Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Composite Materialso Engineered phase-change composite passive cooling system for enhanced heat transfer and thermal abuse resistance o Designed and constructed experimental set-ups for the thermal evaluation of Lithium Iron Phosphate pouch cellso Improved thermal abuse resistance and the thermal management of Lithium Iron Phosphate pouch cells by an average of 67.5%.o Operated power supply, electronic load, and differential scanning calorimeter to perform thermal data analysiso Presented research project at the 2024 AAAS S-STEM REC Conference*Received opportunity through NSF REU: Thermal Management on Multiple Scales

Project Title: Controlling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Through Hand Gesture Recognitiono Assessed the efficiency of controlling unmanned aerial systems through hand gesture recognitiono Executed systematic testing to determine the accuracy of the trained machine-learning model implemented on a droneo Wrote and monitored drone's autonomous performance via Python programming o Authored technical project manual and presented research project at the 2022 SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference*Received opportunity through SDSU's STEM Pathways Program

Mission 1 (Online)o Authored a mission research report on NASA’s in-situ resource utilization capabilities.Mission 2 (On-site)o Worked in a team environment to compete in NASA’s STEM engineering design challengeo Designed and built prototype rovers that accomplished the mission tasks providedo As an operations engineer, I ensured that all functions and processes of the engineered rovers adequately met safety guidelines.*Received opportunity through NASA's NCAS program