Hello, I am a mechanical engineer and USMC veteran.

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Experience

Graduate Coursework

UAV Control and Guidance

One of my favorite graduate courses was Aerospace Vehicles GNC where I learned guidance, navigation, and control of autonomous flying systems. During this course we used an Arduino, GPS, and IMU to autonomously control a UAV through a course on campus. We also made several simulations guiding missiles and UAVs to intercept targets and follow designated paths such as my initials shown above.

UAV-Target Interception Simulation

For Aerospace Vehicles GNC we created a simulation where a UAV had to smoothly intercept four dynamically moving targets. Another challenge of the project was the GPS, IMU, and gyro data all had built in noise we had to filter. I used an Extended Kalman Filter and a modified D’ Souza guidance algorithm to accomplish this.

Carbon Fiber NACA 2412 Section

My team created five identical sections of a NACA 2412 airfoil for our composites product development class. First we 3D printed two tool surfaces for each side accounting for mold thickness and desired part thickness. Then a fiberglass mold was laid up on the tool surface. After cure the smooth fiberglass mold was used to lay up both sided of the carbon fiber part. A honeycomb-fiberglass sandwich panel was made for the spar and the final product was fixed with syntactic foam.