Research fellow under the DoE Office of Fossil Energy's Gas Turbine Industrial Fellowship -Determined viability of hybrid cycle UAVs for surveillance missions & created an NPSS tool for subsequent mission analysis -Designed and built laser PIV system for <10% of quoted industry cost for low speed turbulence testing -Standardized NPSS unit conversions for international use, streamlined data collection of drag testing (65% time reduction)

Undergraduate Researcher -Literary investigation of various fuel types (liquid, solid, gel) and their viability for use in scramjet combustion -Standardized lab procedures for LabView controls -Test, repair, maintenance of engine test cells

Yearly AFRL engineering design competition: -Responsible for the creation of all components for both testing and final design on the APOP team. -Increased the thrust/weight ratio of a small gas turbine engine by 13.67% -Currently working on solutions to wind-milling and small scale thrust vectoring