Southwest Research Institute
| UTSR Gas Turbine Industrial Fellow
01 May 2019 -
31 Aug 2019
San Antonio, TX
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)
Ben T. Zinn Combustion Lab
| Undergraduate Researcher
02 Jan 2018 -
31 May 2018
Atlanta, GA
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
Aerospace Systems Design Lab
| Fabrication Lead
01 Aug 2018 -
Present
Atlanta, GA
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