Archive Index
Projects
Selected engineering work across propulsion, structures, control systems, and simulation. Each dossier includes mission, requirements, analysis, test results, and lessons learned.
Project Aurelian
Liquid rocket engine employing nitrous oxide and E85 as propellants, and inspired by the Mojave Sphinx engine from Half Cat Rocketry. Made independently by a team of seven people as a way of learning about liquid rocket engines, as well as personally to introduce some friends who have never done rocketry before to the hobby.
Open dossier →Satellite Docking System (SatDoc)
A SmallSat-compatible satellite docking system enabling on-orbit servicing, designed and ground-tested by an 8-person Florida Tech capstone team on an air-bearing table. I serve on the testing subsystem under the team's Testing Lead, and co-authored the project's Level 1 System Requirements, authored the project's Level 0 objectives, portions of the broader impact analysis.
Open dossier →Phantom 10K
The 2"experimental solid rocket motor effort to achieve 10,000 ft, achieving 9,701 ft on the flight; the highest altitude that the club has ever achieved, their first experimental (homemade) motor build, and their first homemade motor flight.
Open dossier →L1 Certification Rocket
Vega 1 - modeled, built, and painted within a week. Flown to a simulation apogee of 3,000 ft. Mach 0.766. Successfully recovered.
Open dossier →Moon Colony Logistics Modeling
An independent, award-winning, student-driven research study modeling the logistics of moving 100 million metric tons of infrastructure to the Moon, contrasting super-heavy rockets against a hypothetical space elevator through stochastic jump-diffusion.
Open dossier →Machining
One year experience in machining using manual mills and lathes as well as 2-axis CNC mills and lathes working on propulsion hardware, such as CNC machining nozzles and nose cone tips for Phantom 10K, and manual/CNC lathe machining of SABER, which is a bipropellant engine being developed by a senior design team.
Open dossier →Laser Cutting & Engraving
Hands-on work with fiber and CO2 lasers, starting from setting up engraving parameters on metal and wooden materials in the test grids through to creating completed engraved artwork.
Open dossier →Waterjet Parts
Three items have been made from aluminum water jet cut pieces. The monogram was designed as the personal piece, the second was a motor retainer for Vega 1 (L1 Build), and the third item was designed as a test piece for bulkhead fabrication, which would allow evaluating the feasibility of using water jet cutting for manufacturing fuel/oxidizer bulkhead in future.
Open dossier →Reaction-Role Discord Bot
A Discord bot for the Society of Math Students server that allows members to assign themselves to roles corresponding to their courses by reacting to a message.
Open dossier →DeltaUnits: NX Unit Converter
Lightweight Windows tool that will convert Siemens NX .prt files from millimeters to inches and vice versa within one click, packaging Siemens NX unit converter into a convenient GUI interface.
Open dossier →School Projects
Selection of some notable coursework projects from Florida Tech featuring a minimum length 2D rocket nozzle design through the Method of Characteristics and ball and beam controller design.
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