Projects

Rapidly developed a 700 lbf liquid rocket engine (nitrous/IPA) and tested within 2 academic quarters (~5 active months)

The engine is designed for the Collegiate Propulsive Lander Competition (CPLC website: landerchallenge.space)

Led 5-person rocketry team to successful engine throttle test, demonstrating throttle control to 16% max thrust

Actively iterating on design, manufacturing, and integration of phenolic ablative thrust chamber assembly (TCA) and nozzle

Independently developed regeneratively cooled engine & owned the entire lifecycle process (design, fab, integration, test)

Performed fluid system sizing analysis to determine manifold, injector, thrust chamber, and valve specifications

Tuned ox and fuel valves and wrote "ignition sequence" code with millisecond accuracy to enable ignition

Overcame hard start engine failure by improving ignition start up sequence and procedure revisions within 7 days

Experienced over 20 different engine failures, analyzed failure modes, and made design & manufacturing improvements

Managed testing operations for over 30 hot-fire tests and responsible for mechanical, fluid, and software system checkouts

Created Kalman filter for thrust sensor feedback, PID throttle control and state machine ignition sequence in C++

Complete ownership over development of 6 Degrees of Free (DOF) simulations, guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) algorithms of hop vehicle