Undergraduate Research

Major

Aerospace Engineering

Classification

Third-Year

Research Area

Orbital Mechanics

Research Group Faculty Advisor

Moriba Jah

Describe the research you are conducting and your role in the group.

We're using NOAA weather data to track re-entering near-earth objects and understand where they came from. It's a lot of image processing and computational dynamics, and we get to run our scripts from TACC. I work on the Python image processing software and the HTML display website.

How do you plan to use this research experience in your career?

This project has taught me a lot about the use of computer science and programming languages in all fields, and how important computational engineering really is. If a problem can be solved analytically, it can be modeled and simulated, which is what a lot of engineering jobs are transitioning into.

What is your advice to students who plan on doing research?

Be persistent! Talking to professors often seems daunting, but they're all very nice, just busy.