Developing a method of seeding porosity into LPBF-manufactured titanium and steel parts to better evaluate natural porosity via rapid NDE.

Materials characterization & evaluation in a variety of operating conditions to support the Starship program.Developed robust parent material testing capability at Starbase.Designed & built a large-scale environmental cycle chamber.Performed analysis & experimentation related to fracture in multilayer ceramics.

Design, analysis, and test of structures supporting thermal protection and aerodynamic elements on Starship.

Developing fiber-reinforced ceramic and polymer composites for fabrication via additive manufacturing.

Leading powertrain: high voltage battery pack; drive systems; control, safety & sensing electronics; and data collection, as well as mechanical structures supporting and protecting those systems.

Manufactured high-voltage battery pack and led mechanical integration of powertrain systems.Developed electrical isolation and mechanical constraint system for high-voltage battery pack as well as suspension mounting lugs.Previously developed ANSYS finite element model of the high-voltage battery pack structures and ANSYS thermal model of a planned liquid cooling system for the same battery pack.

Developed machine vision-driven controls program for testbed using Beckhoff PLC & Fanuc 4-axis robot, using communication protocols including Ethercat, Gigevision, and modbus tcp.Completed wiring & mechanical tuning for the same testbed.

Developed a finite element model of the meniscal enthesis.Worked to analyze strain patterns in natural and artificial meniscal entheses.

Developed a depth stop mechanism for a WaterJet cutting machine.

Worked to develop a reliable, contamination-free photolithography method for metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors on a silicon substrate, for later application to gallium oxide substrates.

Each summer, developed curriculum for and taught a summer camp about programming for and flying drones.