Aerospace · Design · Manufacturing · Testing
Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, building, testing, and improving real hardware across CAD, manufacturing, robotics, and flight. I like engineering that crosses disciplines and does not stop at the model.
Aerospace design and CAD alongside production hardware, automation, and machining — carried from problem through design into something built and tested.
Programmed and helped set up an automated cell in which a FANUC R-1000iA/100F six-axis robot moves track shoes between material racks and a Yama Seiki BM-1600MAX machining center — robot programming, PLC safety logic, custom end-of-arm tooling, and commissioning on a live cell.
A high-fidelity parametric recreation of the Convair B-36 built in Siemens NX, with constrained assemblies, moving mechanisms, rendered views, and an engineering animation.
Led a team through designing a glider from scratch, fabricating the prototype, and refining its stability through iterative testing — reaching a measured 179 ft flight over 6.35 seconds from a ground-level launch.
Modeled a furnace conveyor and its components from existing hardware, produced the CAM to machine them, built custom workholding, and assembled physical conveyor segments.
A component in the heat-treatment furnace broke with no drawings available. I measured the damaged part, rebuilt its geometry in CAD, and supported manufacture of a replacement.
I'm an Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who enjoys working close to the hardware and carrying ideas from design into the real world. My experience has ranged from aircraft CAD and flight testing to robotics, automation, machining, CAD/CAM, controls, manufacturing, and hands-on troubleshooting.
I'm especially interested in aerospace and space systems, but what I like most is engineering work that crosses disciplines and lets me understand, build, test, and improve a full system rather than staying confined to one narrow task.
Alongside coursework I've been involved with Liquid Rocketry at Illinois, including the Engine subgroup, and with ISS SpaceShot.
Open to engineering internships and hardware-heavy project work. Email is the fastest way to reach me.