Stephen Eicher Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

El Segundo, California, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Mission support and modernization for the Cheyenne Mountain Complex integrated tactical warning assessment (ITWAA) system in partnership with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, and the United States Air Force

UCLA

• Developing and optimizing methanol flash cooling setup for applications in high intensity transient cooling of electronics.
• Working to integrate actuation and data collection with continually evolving LabVIEW code and experimental setup.
• Documenting changes, setup, and resultant data for publishing.

UCLA

• Designing dual bay recovery system and electronics systems for Odyssey 3 (transonic rocket).
• Fabricating and designing redundant circuitry to ensure successful recovery as well as gather and locally store flight accelerometer data.
• Integrating via Arduino Feather acceleration data during recovery sequence to develop and refine current shock model.
• Utilizing numerical integration and dynamic systems coursework to produce MATLAB model estimating deployment shock.
• Developing system constraints and ground test procedures while documenting common failure modes.

University Of California, Los Angeles

• Produced two 36 in. Von Karman ogive nosecones for transonic flight of Odyssey I and II.
• Engineered system to comply with constraints imposed by dependent systems (recovery, electronics) as well as restrictions imposed due to aspects of flight.
• Managed manufacturing efforts of team members while responsible for addressing logistical and budgetary complications
• Developed fiberglass fabrication techniques to preserve desired tolerances on nosecone profile

Richard Merkin Middle School

Middle School Mentor Volunteer Work

Master'S Degree, Aeronautics And Astronautics

Bachelor'S Degree, Aerospace Engineering