Experience

Self Engineering Leadership Fellowship

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Leadership Fellow

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  • Chosen to join a cohort of fellow KU engineering students to develop the pillars of the SELF Program through group projects and a capstone project • Planning and executing High School Design as a member of the aerospace competition team • Chosen to join a cohort of fellow KU engineering students to develop the pillars of the SELF Program through group projects and a capstone project • Planning and executing High School Design as a member of the aerospace competition team



HORIZON Research Group at UTSI

• Summer Research Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  I was selected to work as a Summer Research Intern at the High Speed Original Research and Innovation Zone (HORIZON) at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI). For the first two weeks, I shadowed graduate students as they conducted their masters and doctoral research before setting off on my own research project for the remainder of the summer. For my project, I chose to pursue one of the challenges experienced by many of the graduate students at HORIZON: creating one program which would be able to extract quantifiable data out of schlieren footage from any of HORIZON's supersonic wind tunnels and hypersonic Ludwig tubes. I learned and applied image processing skills in MATLAB, and came to understand the unique challenges associated with using different diagnostic techniques in rarefied Mach 2, Mach 2.3, Mach 4, and Mach 7 flows. Using previously recorded footage from different tests, I refined my program to achieve successful identification, isolation, and extrapolation of critical flow features in different tunnels over different models. At the conclusion of the internship I presented my findings before the faculty and students of UTSI. I am excited for the future of hypersonic research and my own programming skills and how they will develop in years to come.



The University of Kansas

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Student Ambassador

  • Aug 2020 - May 2022

  As an Engineering Student Ambassador, I assisted with recruitment and outreach for the University of Kansas' School of Engineering. I lead guided tours of the facilities and labs and spoke on my own experiences therein to inform prospective students of the capabilities and opportunities that await them if they should attend KU. I also held office hours where I assisted any visiting prospective students with major-specific questions and gave tours through particular facilities at KU. This was a great opportunity to enhance my public speaking and interpersonal skills. The data shows that student ambassadors have a much greater impact on prospective students than simple statistics about a school.