Student Clubs
SFU Rocketry
Thrust Vector Control
Teamlead
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
For eight months, I led the Thrust Vector Control (TVC) team in the SFU Rocketry Club. Our goal was to initiate the design of a thrust vector control module for a 25 kN engine.
In hindsight, I realize how much progress my team made on the TVC project during that period.
Despite having no prior experience in aerospace or advanced control algorithms, we divided responsibilities and eventually became competent in our respective areas.
Just before I left for my Co-op at Tesla, I was told that our team had been the most effective and fast-moving in the club’s history. And two months later our project won $30,000 prize in the DarkVision competition.
Our team's achievements included:
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Designed and optimized a CAD model of the TVC system to ensure optimal performance
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Conducted dynamic and thermal FEA analyses to validate and address design concerns
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Conducted kinematic and static analyses to determine actuator speed and maximum load capacity, respectively
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Simulated the CAD model's performance using Simscape Multibody
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Evaluated commercially available actuators and shortlisted the optimal electromechanical options
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Several months after my departure, our project contributed to the Rocketry Club winning first place and a $30,000 prize in the DarkVision competition.
Breakfast
Ideas
Mechatronic Systems Engineering Student Society
VP - External
September 2022 - May 2023
Returning from the Covid-19 lockdown, I decided that I wanted to improve my public speaking and organizational skills. I ran for, and won, the VP of External Relations role in my school’s Engineering Student Society. My duties included facilitating relationships with other Canadian engineering schools, organizing conference trips, and hosting the annual Engineering Competition.
This experience helped me strengthen my communication skills and gain an understanding of policy-making. By the end of my tenure, I decided to prioritize gaining more technical experience. I stepped away from the student union but continued to develop my public speaking skills by joining Toastmasters.
Some of my highlights:
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Served as a representative of the SFU Mechatronic Systems Engineering Student Society in the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students
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Collaborated with other SFU Engineering faculties to successfully organize and host SFU Engineering Competition 2022
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Collaborated with Camp 5 representatives to plan and execute a series of Iron Ring information sessions, while also facilitating the organization of SFU MSE graduates for the ceremony.
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Organized and led four SFU MSE delegations to the conferences hosted by the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students
FIC Awareness Campaign Team
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
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Successfully organized a series of events aimed at increasing awareness and facilitating the adaptation of new international students to their new environment
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Was representing engineering science faculty to the BC college assessing commission.
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Developed and proposed an event for connecting new students and alumni of the college that was later reorganized in a new in-college volunteering organization.
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Upon graduating from college, was nominated and elected for the Community Engagement Award.
SFU Satellite Design Team
May 2020 - Aug 2020
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Conducted research on a power consumption of a CubeSat Electric Power System (EPS) to determine its work principles.
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Designed a data processing program in Python that receives values from the Excel power budget file to provide power consumption statistics.
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Completed a series of tests with the implemented program to evaluate a total energy generation/consumption ratio that helped to determine a miscalculation in the initial design.
SFU Surge (coding club)
Jan 2020 - May 2020
The first club I joined in my first week in SFU. Was a lot of fun rapidly learning new languages and getting my first experience of collaborative software development of videogames.
• Learned and applied in practice such languages and software as Python, Unity, JS, React
• Became familiar with GitHub and team projects organization
• Working in a team created and presented two games and one time-management website
