In May 2024, I had the pleasure to travel to São Paulo, Brazil with several classmates
and professors to present to engineering representatives from Azul Airlines. In February,
we had met via Zoom to launch the project, which was considerably open ended: analyze given
data for alternate airport planning and usage and propose ways that planning could be improved
for Azul’s major hubs. Alternate airports are airports chosen ahead of time that flights can
be diverted to in case landing at the scheduled destination is not viable. Strategically choosing
alternates is vital for many reasons, with the most impactful being the cost associated with
carrying the fuel required to fly to the furthest alternate from the scheduled destination.
I worked in a team comprised of three students from Illinois, and three students from the
University of Sāo Paulo. In the end, we provided a comprehensive look at anomalies in alternate
planning for flights coming into Azul’s major hubs, and recommended specific alternate choices
that minimized the need for extra fuel and improved assertiveness in planning.
One of the projects that I was able to work on for my flight mechanics
class was a catapult design project. The project was completed in groups
of three, and the objective was to be as accurate as possible. This was
determined by comparing the average of three official launches against an
estimated range provided by the team. We then wrote a paper on our methodology,
with my largest contribution being the flight path analysis.
This website is one of my projects! I had been considering building a
website for a while; I watched several videos and tutorials on HTML,
CSS, and JavaScript over the summer of 2023. When one of my classes
asked me to create an online portfolio for an assignment, I knew I
finally had a good driving factor to create my website. This website
is a work in progress (My next focus is on revamping this page to make it more visually
appealing and navigable), and I hope that it can serve as a useful project to
showcase my developing computer science skills as well as other work I have done.
I decided to take the class "American People, Places, and Cultures" as an honors class
during my first year in college to fulfill my James Scholar requirements.
The class itself was focused on telling the story of the USA through food and monuments.
I decided to take a closer look into monuments and memorials that we see at our schools
and public parks. While I would definitely take a different approach towards structuring
and researching if I were to ever revisit the paper, I thought it was a fun project that
took me outside of my comfort zone and forced me to look at places I've been in a new light.
These are the results of my final project for my first year aerospace
CAD class at the University of Illinois. We were tasked with choosing
an aerospace vehicle, modeling, and rendering it in Siemens NX, and then
presenting on it. I chose the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter that was sent to
Mars alongside the Perseverance Rover as a proof of concept for other
planetary flight. There were only 5-6 available dimensions that were online,
so I did a lot of estimation work by hand based off of photos of the craft
made public by NASA. Below are several of my final renderings.
Here is my final report from my senior year research project in high school.
This research project was a part of my AP Research class which helped give me an introduction
to conducting and presenting research. My particular project looked into the effects of making music
in formal and informal settings on perceived stress levels of students.
