• Developed experience with validation procedures by validating Rolls-Royce internal CFD software against rig test data
• Enhanced project leadership skills by leading an internal project to advance Rolls-Royce analysis capabilities for advanced military exhaust systems
• Broadened interpersonal leadership skills by serving as mentor for several student interns/co-ops and recently hired junior engineers

• Developed knowledge of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) while building a model for predicting particle deposition in the human nasal cavity using the commercial code FLUENT.
• Learned the C/C++ programming language by developing a series of user defined functions to augment the discrete phase model in FLUENT to track the motion of ellipsoidal fibers suspended in a shear flow.
• Furthered my knowledge of scientific computing by running FLUENT in both the Windows and Unix environments on single and multi processor machines.
• Sharpened my ability to program in MATLAB by writing a number of scripts for pre and post processing numerical experiments.
• Advanced technical writing skills by preparing manuscripts for publication in journals and conference proceedings.

• Sharpened effective communication skills by teaching Thermodynamic Systems Engineering to 25 junior and senior level undergraduate students.
• Enhanced presentation skills by using Microsoft PowerPoint to deliver course material.
• Received an overall course evaluation score of 4.6/5.0.

• DISSERTATION TITLE: Computational Model for Ellipsoidal Fiber Deposition in the Human Nasal Cavity


• EPA, Science to Achieve Results (STAR), Fellowship Recipient


• Final poster selected to appear on Capitol Hill for the U.S. Congress

• THESIS TITLE: Ensemble Forecasting with Stochastic Perturbations

• MINORS: Mathematics and Physics