Undergrad work

• Designed imaging and motion systems for a Zero-G flight experiment that printed 150 parts in May 2022.
• Used Background Oriented Schlieren imaging to analyze post-experiment structural evolution of printed parts.
• Developed resin formulations across viscosities and other material properties, enabling a 2x reduction in print time.

Publications: Acta Astronautica (2023) and the International Astronautical Congress (2022). See the main page.

• An automated telescope mount that finds and tracks a chosen object in the night sky.
• Designed the software architecture that connects a laptop, ESP32 microcontroller, camera, and motor controllers.
• Integrated ESA's tetra3 star-identification software as feedback for a custom pointing controller.
• Wrote Arduino code to steer the telescope smoothly and precisely to the target.

• A foosball table with an automated goalie that blocks 90% of on-target shots.
• Wrote a regression-based ball-trajectory estimator from data gathered and processed with OpenCV.
• Wrote several goalie controllers, with OpenCV for feedback.

• Built Cameo verification models and DOORS requirements for a model-based systems engineering workflow.

• Used CATIA to resolve aircraft integration requests and prepare manufacturing change instructions.
• Used C++ to verify FPGA and ASIC memory limits, generated FPGA test code, and configured hardware testbeds.

• Oversaw 13 leads and 7 technical projects through the competition season, including a successful liquid engine hotfire and its launch in 2023.

• Co-founded the team and wrote its constitution as a Registered Student Organization.
• Ran trade studies on spring steels across temperature, pressure, and dust conditions.
• Designed and tested a tool-attachment mechanism in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston (remotely, June 2021).

• Built test rigs to measure axial strength of balsa longeron designs, and jigs to assemble the competition aircraft's fuselage.