My Professional Development
NASA L'SPACE Academies and Colorado State University Programs
NASA Mission Concept Academy
Through this academy, a team of 11 others and I were assigned a theoretical NASA mission to develop a lunar rover designed to collect and map lunar ice deposits in permanantly shaddowed regions (PSR's) on the lunar south pole. As a team we developed CAD models of the rover, mission plans, operation plans, hardware specifications, and wrote over 400 pages of technical documentation describing the previous components of the design. My role on the team as the lead and only Electrical Engineer was to design a subsystem capable of collecting power, storing power, and distributing power to essential systems for the duration of the mission.
NASA Proposal Writing and Evaluation Experience
Through this academy, 9 others and I developed a proposal based on developing the emerging berillium doping semiconductor technology and proposed it to a professional NASA review panel. After completing this part of the academy we were individually tasked with reviewing 3 other teams proposals and providing descriptive feedback on the successfull and unsuccessful aspects of each.
CSU Scott Undergraduate Research Experiance
Over the course of my sophomore year I have participated in the CSU SURE program. This program is dedicated to connecting aspiring undergraduate researchers to senior research staff in order to get hands on experiance before graduate school. In my case I was connected with Dr. Sonia Kreidenweiss from CSU's Department of Atmospheric Science. In my current position I will be researching the distribution of rain seeding chemicals from air samples in Colorado to ditermine the efficency of the seeding locations on inducing rain in the desired areas. This program ends with a final cumulative research exhibition in which I present my reaserch to a group of CSU donors and alumni.