Ryan Tan Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Oversaw all day-to-day club activities with the vision to expand the University of Alberta’s aerospace talent
• Managed relationships with department stakeholders and sponsors, ensuring the club has the necessary resources and funding to succeed in its next sounding rocket project
• Conducted outreach events to educate and promote STEM and the aerospace industry to youth and young adults across Alberta, successfully onboarding 80+ undergraduate students in joining the club
• Competed in the 2023 Launch Canada Challenge; awarded first place in the Payload Design Challenge and second place in the Basic Launch Challenge

• Led a team of multidisciplinary engineering students to test critical components and subsystems within the rocket, assuring the rocket meets Launch Canada’s rules and requirements
• Coordinated manufacturing of the rocket assembly and testing hardware, helping the club launch the first amateur experimental rocket developed at the University of Alberta
• Competed in the 2022 Launch Canada Challenge; awarded first place in the Payload Design Challenge and top 5 in the Basic Launch Challenge

• Contributed to a team of 7 members to design and draft structural components within the rocket
• Implemented bulkheads to the rocket assembly using SOLIDWORKS to house the payload and avionics parts
• Developed Excel and SMath programs to analyze structural loads acting on the rocket
• Demonstrated an interest in leadership and designing, and achieved promotion to testing team lead

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Collaborated with graduate students and research associates to design and produce a heat exchanger capable of safely collecting toxic vapours, generating up to 20 solid models and drawings with SOLIDWORKS
• Coded over 200 lines of code in MATLAB to execute in-depth heat transfer and thermodynamics design calculations, optimizing the cost of production and efficiency of the heat exchanger
• Researched different condenser models and prepared weekly presentations to showcase various design proposals