Laser Interferometry is one of the tools that allows physicists to quantify some of the phenomena we unknowingly experience everyday. With these devices interstellar objects that are much too far away for even the most advanced telescopes to capture are made possible. By combining a property of…

The primary objective of this project was to design, build, and fly a free-flight rubber-powered aircraft that maximized both payload capacity and flight endurance in a simulated Mars sample return mission. The aircraft had to be capable of carrying the greatest possible number of "Mars rock"…

Me and my team were tasked with developing a comprehensive list of reversible joining and fastening methods for DuPont's Corian® Solid Surface (CSS). This list is tabulated into a Pugh matrix evaluating the tradeoffs of the various alternative methods to help architects and designers choose which…

This volume is an edited anthology of research papers produced by undergraduate students as part of a semester-long course in astrobiology at Syracuse University. The collection explores foundational and emerging topics related to the origin, persistence, and detectability of life beyond Earth,…

This project developed a MATLAB solver for the numerical source panel method based on equations from Anderson’s book. The source panel method approximates the flow around an object using discrete panels, which are essential for modeling nonlinear geometries. A NACA 0012 airfoil was analyzed at…

In this lab, we utilized a wind tunnel and multiple experiments to explore fluid mechanics and physics principles. The results of these experiments justify the equations being used for theoretical examples and why they are used in engineering applications. The main fluid mechanic interactions this…