Collaborated with a diverse team of engineers to successfully launch & test a near space ballooning data collection research project that observed the health of vegetation utilizing near-infrared spectroscopy.

Ran flight simulation programs to further design the size, weight and type of weather balloon to launch.

Personally managed multiple tasks from leading the structural analysis of the impact to the payload, to clearly documenting & presenting the design process, technical challenges & solutions for end of mission summary reports.

Programmed, tested, and assembled several Arduino microcontrollers with altimeters, gyroscopes, accelerometers & magnetometers to be used for data collection.

Designed & tested a homemade cut-down mechanism, utilizing Arduinos, for the glider to be released from the weather balloon at 400ft.

Conducted the near space balloon launch, successfully recovered the payload and analyzed all of post flight data.

Served as a mentor for the incoming interns for the next NASA weather balloon launch the following year after. 

Gave various software and hardware workshops involving Arduino basics, breadboarding, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor and more. 

Managed an entire team of undergraduate engineers, serving as a liaison between students, professors and lab managers. 

Led outreach programs and booths at various city fairs, high schools and community colleges. 

Worked in a team of 11 aerospace structural engineers to fully design, build and test a 7.5' NACA-0012 carbon fiber wing that covered all necessary mission requirements while ensuring ideal cost performance.

 Reviewed provided loads, available materials, environment & FAR/EASA requirements and iterated a wing design until all points were met. 

Drafted and reviewed multiple hand calculations for preliminary design & analysis, running our design through multiple load cases. 

Created numerous 2D drawings within AutoCAD to showcase the intended design of the wing in cross section & plan views. 

Utilized SolidWorks to 3D model the entire wing design along with the tooling needed for fabrication of the physical wing. 

Budgeted, ordered & organized all the necessary materials for the wing itself along with tools needed for fabrication. 

Planned & detailed out the entire 6 week manufacturing schedule for the fabrication of the carbon fiber wing. 

Ran FEA simulations on ABAQUS utilizing our 3D model to predict failure modes & loads. 

Conducted multiple manufacturing methods including numerous wet lay-ups combined with pre-preg for the main spar, aft spar, wing skins, ribs and stringers. 

Laser cut plywood and assembled 10 male tooling parts for the carbon fiber rib manufacturing process. 

Installed strain gauges and built whiffle trees to successfully measure strain and apply loads during testing.   

3D modeled, printed, & assembled over 40+ DC motor robot controllers to be utilized in undergraduate lab classes across the UCSD MAE department, an upgrade from ones developed over 10 years ago. 

Designed and developed a functional remote wireless control system utilizing Arduino software and sensors to control DC motors to improve cable management and mobility in its applied environments.

Facilitated numerous workshops to teach undergraduate students’ hands-on engineering & prototyping skills such as 3D printing, laser cutting, soldering and operating various electronic equipment and tools.

Led classes teaching various 2D/3D design programs such as AutoCAD, Rhino, ZBrush, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor & more. 

Organized team meetings and served as a liaison between professors, lab managers and undergraduate students to help with class and personal projects.

Supervised the lab space on a weekly basis, assisting students in their prototyping projects as well as overall machine troubleshooting and maintenance.

Partnered alongside a professional engineer on analyzing the structural design & integrity of various community developments & residential housing renovations utilizing SAP 2000

Developed, reviewed & verified floor plans, structural engineering designs & section details utilizing AutoCAD

Coordinated & documented studies & reports during construction site visits & inspections with several engineers, architects & contractors for ongoing projects 

Utilizing the step-lap Volkersen Model, our team developed MATLAB code to run design iterations with various parameters to finalize our final repair patch approach

We then utilized AutoCAD to draw out our carbon fiber cutout designs to efficiently request the least amount of needed materials to minimize waste

During the manufacturing process we used several techniques such as a sol-gel process, wet lay-ups and vacuum bag curing

In order to hit a certain performance index we also predetermined the expected failure scenario along with the different types of failures associated per load case

Utilizing our knowledge in composite design we wrote a MATLAB code to run various layup combinations to simulate impacts of the given load case to determine our final designed chest plate as the following: [0 -45 45 90 45 -45 0]S

We fabricated the chest plate using carbon fiber prepreg for its lightweight but high strength material properties 

Our manufacturing process consisted of a custom fit mold construction, woven glass fiber wet layup, prepreg carbon fiber chest plate integration & a complex vacuum bagging procedure to cure the entire armor piece into one

After load testing, delamination occurred near the chest plate but nonetheless there was minimal surface damage & overall safety was achieved.