OBJECTIVE
Full-time employment as an aerospace systems engineer or project manager
EDUCATION
B.S., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduated: June 2010 with General High Honors; Physics Academic Honors
GPA: 3.76
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
Focus: Control Systems
Graduated: May 2012 (expected)
GPA: 3.67
Relevant Coursework:
o Automatic Control Systems
o Statistical Orbit Determination
o Dynamics of Aerospace Structures
o Analog and Digital Electronics
o Fluid Mechanics
o General Relativity
o Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Controls
o Project Management
o Electricity & Magnetism
o Robot Mechanics
o Classical Mechanics
o Quantum Mechanics
GRADUATE PROJECTS
o GOJETT – Designing and building world’s first fully-autonomous, supersonic UAV
o Deputy Project Manager; Chief Financial Officer
o Performed project management duties; team motivator and leader
o Developed, drafted, and presented an application to the Engineering Excellence Fund that resulted in securing additional funding for the project.
o Managed and directed the allocation of $40,000 project budget
o Conducted aerodynamic CFD analysis using ANSYS Fluent
o Sized and designed wings and control surfaces
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
o Research Assistant, Boulder, CO; 5/11 – 9/11 (40 hrs/wk)
o Redesigned interstellar dust detector electronics and hardware
o UMN MRSEC Summer REU Program, Minneapolis, MN; 6/08 – 9/08 (40 hrs/wk)
o Developed PbSe Quantum Dot Sensitized ZnO Nanowire Solar Cells
o Designed optics system for solar cell testing device
o First place in UMN summer research poster session
PUBLICATIONS
o Leschkies, K. S.; Beatty, T. J.; Kang, M. S.; Norris, D. J.; Aydil, E. S. Solar Cells Based on Junctions between Colloidal PbSe Nanocrystals and Thin ZnO Film...
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