Project Overview
Role: Analysis Engineer
Timeline: August 2025 - December 2025
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Objective: Analyzing designs of components of rockets manufactured at USC RPL.
The Problem / Challenge
Ensuring flight vehicle airframes could withstand the increased loads of more powerful propulsion systems.
Technical Process & Actions
- Phase 1: Conducted preliminary structural analysis of components using Ansys.
- Phase 2: Not as an analysis engineer, but as part of the composite team, executed wet layup testing for fins and nozzle layups to ensure composite integrity.
Values & Learning
Mastery of software literacy as well as structural analysis and data-driven flight dynamics modeling.