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Seattle, Wa

Working as a part of multi-disciplinary team on international project funded by Federal Aviation Administration centered on the study of ice accretion on swept wing aerodynamics.Roles include data analysis, including programming with Matlab, visualization using Tecplot, and supporting wind tunnel experiments.As a part of thesis research, designed, set up, and executed wind tunnel tests to study fundamental aerodynamic effects of swept-wing… Show more Working as a part of multi-disciplinary team on international project funded by Federal Aviation Administration centered on the study of ice accretion on swept wing aerodynamics.Roles include data analysis, including programming with Matlab, visualization using Tecplot, and supporting wind tunnel experiments.As a part of thesis research, designed, set up, and executed wind tunnel tests to study fundamental aerodynamic effects of swept-wing icing.https://www.aa.washington.edu/research/AIARG Show less

Cleveland, Ohio

Over a ten week session, evaluated and applied a Python-based computational tool developed for the parametric classification of ice accretions on aircraft wing. The main goal was to help develop a consistent method for numerical classification of ice shape geometry that varied greatly depending upon formative conditions.Through extensive use and debugging, it became clear that the tool had issues beyond the scope of a short internship, though in the final report prepared in close… Show more Over a ten week session, evaluated and applied a Python-based computational tool developed for the parametric classification of ice accretions on aircraft wing. The main goal was to help develop a consistent method for numerical classification of ice shape geometry that varied greatly depending upon formative conditions.Through extensive use and debugging, it became clear that the tool had issues beyond the scope of a short internship, though in the final report prepared in close collaboration with my NASA engineer mentor, some trends between atmospheric conditions and ice solidity were able to be identified. Show less

Urbana, Il

The goal of my work on the FAA study of iced swept wing aerodynamics was to develop a code that would interpolate data from pressure tap rows on a wind tunnel wing model across the wing upper surface.Over time, the result would be a set of Matlab codes that would accept data in multiple formats, reject bad data, and export figures. movies, and files compatible with Tecplot.Over the course of the participation in this project, went from having little to no coding experience in Matlab, to… Show more The goal of my work on the FAA study of iced swept wing aerodynamics was to develop a code that would interpolate data from pressure tap rows on a wind tunnel wing model across the wing upper surface.Over time, the result would be a set of Matlab codes that would accept data in multiple formats, reject bad data, and export figures. movies, and files compatible with Tecplot.Over the course of the participation in this project, went from having little to no coding experience in Matlab, to having constructed a robust and complex code. Show less

Urbana, Il

As part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I spent 10 weeks assisting a PhD candidate with an experimental study of compressible shear layers.Over the course of the program, I became more familiar with the experimental methods used with the supersonic blow-down type wind tunnel, inlcuding high-power laser safety, stereo particle image velocimetry, SPIV post-processing, schlieren photography, and more.At the conclusion… Show more As part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I spent 10 weeks assisting a PhD candidate with an experimental study of compressible shear layers.Over the course of the program, I became more familiar with the experimental methods used with the supersonic blow-down type wind tunnel, inlcuding high-power laser safety, stereo particle image velocimetry, SPIV post-processing, schlieren photography, and more.At the conclusion of the program, presented my contributions in a presentation for the other participants, as well as faculty advisors, and came away with a much better appreciation of the resiliency and inventiveness required for experimental studies. Show less

Master'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Fluids concentration, thesis title: Investigation of the Flowfield Downstream of a Discontinuous Backward-Facing Step on a Swept Flat Plate

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering

Degree conferred with honors