But as they showed the plane to potential customers, they found that people were more interested in the models. When I started, they were making full-sized carbon fiber planes. You got to see how much your product changed as you received feedback from customers. I made many of the carbon fiber parts you see on the company’s current UAS. It’s fully leaned back to reduce the surface area of drag.ĭuring the summer of 2016, I interned at a University of Maryland startup called Airgility Inc., a company developing vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial systems (UAS). We have a cool design that is a recumbent bicycle. I am also doing the electric bike competition in the Clark School. The fourth was a business major in College Park Scholars. Three of our four team members were engineers in EIP. We were the first UMD team to win Deloitte’s competition. During the second year, we won the national competition from among 17 teams. I was part of a Deloitte Case Competition team that won the UMD competition two years in a row, going on to compete nationally at Deloitte’s training center in Fort Worth. Sayre Teaching Fellow of the Year Award (2017) Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar President’s Scholarship American Council of Engineering Companies - Maryland Scholarship Knust Memorial Scholarship Doctor Clifford L.
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