OBJECTIVE: To obtain a full time, entry level position in the field of Aerospace Engineering with emphasis in Astronautics.

EDUCATION
 • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) – Daytona Beach - Graduated December 2008  
 • Major: Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering - 135 credit hours
 • Area of Concentration: Astronautics – 3.15 GPA            Minor: Mathematics
 • AIAA member 2007-present, National Honor Society member

COMPUTER SKILLS & PROJECT EXPERIENCE
 • Computer Skills: STK Certified Expert, CATIA, MATLAB, Simulink, SISOTOOL, FreeFlyer, AutoCAD, C++, NASTRAN, FEA, CFD, CmapTools, CORE, LabVIEW, MAPLE, multimeters, oscilloscopes, Monte Carlo simulations, Microsoft Viseo, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

 • Spacecraft Detail Design: Designed and analyzed hybrid engine propulsion system based on SpaceShipOne envelope to take payload of three persons above 100 Km altitude(Karman Line) while maintaining specifications. Presented complete report with 7 person team.

 • Spacecraft Preliminary Design: Designed and analyzed three stage, altitude drop launch vehicle based on Pegasus envelope to take satellite payload into LEO while satisfying customer specifications and requirements. Submitted complete report with 7 person team.

 • Spacecraft Control: Designed a single input-single output compensator to satisfy control requirements for a spacecraft with a flexible appendage using SISOTOOL.
 

 • Orbital Mechanics: Calculated, analyzed, and predicted outcome of a hypothetical asteroid threat heading to Earth including time and location of impact. Lunar orbit project involving mission design that utilized a series of orbit transfers to send a spacecraft from Earth parking orbit to a circular lunar parking orbit while meeting mission requirements.

 • Systems Engineering: Lead of structures and integration team for High Altitude Balloon System project covering scope of systems engineering from conception to completion.

 • Aerodynamics II: Found optimal designs for wind tunnel based on four different criteria.  Analysis of diamond shape airfoil in supersonic flow utilizing different angles of attack while comparing the accuracy of exact versus approximate methods for lift and drag coefficients.

 • Labs: Electrical Engineering, Experimental Aerodynamics, Physics III for Engineers, Aerospace Structures and Instrumentation, Chemistry for Engineers

WORK EXPERIENCE
Perry's Ocean-Edge Resort-               
Activities Assistant – 40 hours/week - $8/hr
Daytona Beach, FL; May-September 2008 - Summer job during college career.
• Planned, scheduled, and implemented multiple daily activities for guests while continually participating with and providing customer service to guests of all ages.
• Responsible for all aspects of activities including monetary transactions.
• Contact: Jai Bell- Activities Manager: 386-255-0581

Elastics Inc. Powerjump -
Manager/Operator – 40 hours/week - $10/hr 
Daytona Beach, FL; April-August  2006 - Summer job during college career.
• Managed and operated attraction; ran the business after one month training    throughout the summer. Provided customer service and handled money transactions.
• Supervised six other student employees and provided maintenance operations.
• Contact: Allen Lloyd- Owner: 443-690-1534

Rooster Bush Cadillac -
Detailer – 35 hours/week- $7.50/hr     
Morganton, NC; May 2002-June2004
• Detailed cars, organized lot, cleaned and arranged showroom and garage, delivered cars, ran errands. Handled numerous responsibilities and provided customer service.
• Contact: Rob Garrison- General Manager: 828-437-0931
 

                                               RELEVANT COURSE INFORMATION
Experimental Aerodynamics w/ Laboratory: Supports the Experimental Aerodynamics lab by providing lectures based in practice and theory. Topics include wind tunnel design, instrumentation, scaling effects, tunnel wall corrections, and data acquisition, and data reduction as well as good experimental practices. This laboratory consists of a sequence of experiments that demonstrate basic aerodynamic theory while developing skills in the use of classic and modern experimental apparatus, the practice of good experimental technique, and the writing of experimental reports.
 

Chemistry for Engineers w/ Laboratory: Chemical stoichiometry, states of matter, solutions, thermodynamics, rate of reaction, equilibrium, oxidation-reduction, corrosion, organic compounds, and polymers. Lab sessions with experiments paralleling the material.
 

Aerodynamics II: Laminar and turbulent flows, transition point, determination of skin friction drag on an airfoil. Obtaining equations for streamline, for particle path, and for streakline in a flow field. Compressible flow, shock waves, thermodynamics of gas flow. Reversible and irreversible processes. Changes in pressure, density, and temperature across shock waves. Isentropic duct flow and flow through a nozzle. Static performance and maneuvers in flight. Propeller theory.
 

Fluid Mechanics: Physical characteristics of the fluid state. Fluid statics. Kinematics of fluid motion. Flow of an incompressible ideal fluid. The impulse-momentum principles. Similitude and dimensional analysis, fluid measurements.
 

Thermodynamics: A study of the concepts of heat and work and their transformation as governed by the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Properties of pure substances. Ideal gas behavior and relationships. Reversible processes and temperature-entropy diagrams. Conventional power cycles. Properties of ideal gas mixtures. Combustion.
 

Aircraft Structures II: Deflection analysis of structural systems by means of virtual work principles and their energy counterparts. The Rayleigh-Ritz method. Redundant truss, frame, and stiffened web structures. Thermal loads. Shear lag. Load transfer at fuselage frames and wing ribs. Cutouts in wing and fuselage members. Shear flow in multicell wing structures. Buckling considerations.
 

Aerospace Engineering Materials: Structure, properties, and processing of engineering materials. Crystal structure, defects, imperfections, strengthening mechanisms. Mechanical properties, fracture mechanics, fatigue and creep, material failures. Phase diagrams and transformations. Degradation of materials. Characteristics of ferrous and nonferrous metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers and composite materials. Emphasis on materials and processes used in the aerospace industry.
 

Aerospace Structures and Instrumentation w/ Laboratory: Course emphasizes aerospace vehicle testing through instrumentation, data acquisition, and data reduction. Test plans and design are utilized. Principles of modern aerospace vehicle testing and instrumentation. Basic electrical measurements and devices such as strain gages, piezoelectric sensors, and thermocouples. Topics could include measurement of fluid pressure and flow; temperature; thermal and transport properties; strain; motion; vibration; force and torque. Experimental static and dynamic analysis of structures. Processing and analyzing experimental data; report writing and data presentation.
 

Physics III for Engineers w/ Laboratory: Gravitational fields, electric fields and magnetic fields, Gauss’s law, electric potential, linear accelerators, cyclotrons, capacitors, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law, Maxwell equations, topics from modern physics.Experiments chosen from laboratory report writing workshop, error analysis, damped harmonic oscillations, spectrometers, optics, fiber optics, atomic physics, thermodynamics, and R-C circuit theory.
 

Differential Equations and Matrix Methods: Treatment of ordinary differential equations to include principal types of first and second order equations; methods of substitution on simple higher order equations; linear equations and systems of linear equations with constant coefficients; methods of undetermined coefficients and variation of parameters; Laplace transforms; series solutions; matrix methods.
 

Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Line and surface integrals; vector fields with the study of Green, Gauss, and Stokes Theorems; applications of vector field theory; Fourier series.
 

Electrical Engineering II: Diode, transistor, and operational amplifier circuit analysis. System block diagrams, feedback, and transfer functions. Digital and analog computer principles. Boolean algebra, logic gates, and microprocessors. Rotating electrical machines, transformers, and other electro-mechanical energy conversion devices. Lab with EEI.
 

Introduction to Systems Engineering: Provides an overview of systems engineering in the development of large systems, including genesis and need, characteristics of systems and system engineers, the system life cycle (from birth to death), design for operational feasibility, project management, structure, and system control, statistical/probabilistic models in dealing with risk inherent in large, complex systems. Emphasis on the importance of system requirements regarding total system performance, interfaces, cost, schedule, optimization, and trades.
 

Astronomy: A descriptive course dealing with the structure and evolution of the physical universe. Topics include the solar system (Earth, Moon, Sun, and planets), stars, black holes, galaxies, quasars, cosmology, and exobiology. Night observing sessions.
 

Space/Orbital Mechanics: This course presents the vector-based solution of the two-body problem and the solution for the position and time problem (Kepler’s equations). These are used to analyze orbits, satellite launch, ground tracks, orbit transfer, interplanetary trajectories, and interception and rendezvous. Using three-dimensional vector dynamics, the motion and stability of rigid and semi-rigid spacecraft are studied as are the means for controlling spacecraft orientation.
 

Turbine and Rocket Engines: A study of gas turbine and rocket engines. Topics include control volumes, conservation equations, combustion processes, efficiencies, fuel consumption, nozzle flow, diffusers, ideal and real ramjets, gas turbine engines, performance of rocket vehicles, and solid and liquid propellant rocket motors.
 

Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics: Fundamentals of spacecraft attitude dynamics. Three-dimensional rigid-body kinematics. Stability and dynamics of symmetric and tri-inertial bodies. Attitude, nutation, and spin-control maneuvers for spin-stabilized spacecraft. Effects of energy dissipation. Momentum-biased spacecraft dynamics. Stability, modeling, and simulation of spin-stabilized and momentum-biased spacecraft. Elements of three axis stabilized spacecraft. Effects of gravity gradient, solar radiation pressure, atmospheric drag, and magnetic torque on spacecraft attitude.
 

Spacecraft Control: Spacecraft equations of motion and state variable representation of the equations of motion. Automatic control theory, the classical approach as well as the modern control approach. Attitude control with thrusters, attitude control with reaction wheels, and attitude stabilization with spin. Attitude control during thrust maneuvers. Control of translational motion.
 

Spacecraft Preliminary Design: Spacecraft preliminary design principles are developed to meet mission objectives. A complete spacecraft is designed, resulting in a design package consisting of specifications; calculations; CAD drawings; weight and various subsystem budgets; and a series of trade studies, reviews, and design reports.
 

Spacecraft Detail Design: Principles of spacecraft detail and subsystem design, analysis, modeling, manufacture, and test are covered and incorporated into projects to give actual experience in the detail design and integration of spacecraft subsystems and systems. Integration of multiple subsystems into a single functional model is a key component of the course.

 
COVER LETTER
Dear Hiring Manager,

As a recent graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University majoring in aerospace engineering specializing in astronautics, I would like to express my motivated interest in pursuing a career with your company. My knowledge of spacecraft propulsion design and analysis and my technical background in the aerospace systems engineering sector will prove to be beneficial to your company. My educational background involving astronautics is complemented by my outgoing personality, enthusiasm for the space industry, and organizational and teamwork skills. I believe that the opportunity to apply my education and assistance will surely be valuable to your company.

The experience I have with optimizing the design and feasibility of modeled launch vehicles makes me a strong candidate for various positions. I have completed many projects and tasks involving the design, analysis, and integration of spacecraft systems; including computer modeling and submitting complete reports of the final product. I am also knowledgeable with planning, scheduling, monitoring, and commanding satellite operations while communicating and analyzing telemetry data. Through coursework and projects in the Aerospace Engineering-Astronautics program, I have become proficient with the tools of an effective aerospace engineer. These tools include the use of numerical simulation, computer programming, FEA, CFD, 3-D modeling, trajectory computation, and mission planning programs along with research techniques for gathering and analyzing information. I am also recognized as a certified rocket scientist and expert of AGI’s STK(Satellite Tool Kit) mission analysis software for land, sea, air, and space including the Professional, Integration, Terrain, Imagery & Maps, and Coverage editions. In applying these tools at your company, I can assist in implementing and developing improved plans and systems to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and maintain reliability while meeting customer specifications and mission requirements. Furthermore, my thorough background in orbital mechanics, spacecraft attitude control, and trajectory analysis along with mission development and systems engineering skills will allow for a smooth transition and provide essential assets to your company.

My resume and list of relevant course descriptions provide the necessary information that reflects my strong candidacy for various entry-level positions. The competence that I have in the aerospace engineering field is backed by my creativity, quick learning ability, and aspirations for success in developing the future. I welcome the opportunity to discuss these and any other qualifications with you. I am eager to continue correspondence with your company regarding this prospect and other entry-level opportunities that may come available. If you require or are interested in any other information, such as the projects mentioned in my resume, please contact me. Thank you for your time and consideration.