Skills necessary

Heat Transfer

Structure Design

Stress Analysis

Liquid Fuel Propulsion Design

Finite Element Analysis

Computer-Aided Design

Computer-Aided Manufacturing

Prototyping

Mass Growth Analysis

Programming

Team Collaboration

Test Planning

 

Next Generation Interceptor

SUMMARY

Designed Attitude and Control Systems for the Next Generation Interceptor at Aerojet Rocketdyne. Project is still on-going.

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Responsibilities:

  • Designed and Developed New Propulsion Systems for Thruster Systems 

  • Planned, Designed, and Managed Configurations of Prototype and Production Models, BOMs, and Physical Vehicles

  • Produced New Engineering Models and Drawings in CREO

  • Developed Flow Schematics for Use in Testing of Prototype in Microsoft Visio

  • Collaborated with Testing and Analysis to Determine Proper Pressure Budget and Model Adjustments for Prototype

  • Collaborated with Project Engineers, Testing, and Vendors to Select and Source Components for Prototype

  • Performed Thermal, Structural Analyses, and Fluid Analyses for Predicting Component Performance for Thrusters

  • Designed Iso-Grid structures to Support Lightweight Vehicles

  • Collaborated with Manufacturing, Testing, Materials and Processes, and Avionics to Assure Hardware Producibility

  • Create Drawing Release Plans for Details and Assemblies

  • Developed Indentured Parts Lists for all Configurations on Programs

  • Used Matlab to Develop Center of Gravity Shift as Fuel is Used