Experience

Rice Eclipse

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fluid Flow Lead

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Leading a team using Ansys Fluent to model and predict the behavior of fluids and thermal properties of our hybrid rocket engines and designing relevant components.- This includes developing supersonic bell nozzles for use in our hybrid rocket engines using Method of Characteristics MATLAB code to determine ideal bell nozzle geometries - Designing and testing various injector plate geometries to maximize the thrust of our engines.

• Proxima Lead

  • Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

  Led a team of other Rice engineering majors working on designing, building and testing a new 92lbf ground test hybrid rocket engine for the club, which we will be using to try out different new components/configurations before using them in our bigger 1200lbf engine.

• Propulsion Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Jul 2022

  Worked in Rice's student led rocketry team in the propulsion sub teams on various components of our hybrid propulsion systems.



Rice University NSBE Chapter

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching

• Academic Excellence Chair

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Working as part of the executive board to help connect students with academic resources and opportunities. Working as part of the executive board to help connect students with academic resources and opportunities.



Rice University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  - Working to breakdown and investigate the root causes of material damping by determining its constituent functions. - Investigating effects of fluid-structure interaction on damping properties of a material through impact tests in a pressure chamber together with a graduate student. - Investigated effects of granular structure of a material on damping by designing and carrying out impact test experiments and using annealing to change material properties. - Gained experience using LabVIEW and Siemens Test lab software for conducting tests and analyzing the data on MATLAB. - Awarded Rice’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship over Summer 2022 and also awarded for my research poster presentation. Show less



Cummins Inc.

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Systems Intern

  • May 2023 - Aug 2023

  Working as a summer intern in the Engineering lab under the Test Engineer to improve test stands and testing procedures. - Carried out design work on Creo for a new test stand and designing additions to existing stands, machined components, and tested new instrumentation to improve data collection. - Wrote up improved testing procedures based on experience with testing equipment. Working as a summer intern in the Engineering lab under the Test Engineer to improve test stands and testing procedures. - Carried out design work on Creo for a new test stand and designing additions to existing stands, machined components, and tested new instrumentation to improve data collection. - Wrote up improved testing procedures based on experience with testing equipment.



African Leadership Consulting Group

• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Consultant

  • Nov 2019 - Jun 2021

  Worked as the Head of Consulting for this student enterprise, leading different consulting teams to deliver quality work to our clients. Worked as the Head of Consulting for this student enterprise, leading different consulting teams to deliver quality work to our clients.



Pioneer Academics

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Student Researcher

  • Feb 2020 - Jul 2020

  Carried out research in the area of International relations and wrote a paper on the Use of Restorative Community Based Justice Systems to Prevent Ethnic Conflict. Carried out research in the area of International relations and wrote a paper on the Use of Restorative Community Based Justice Systems to Prevent Ethnic Conflict.