Mechanical engineer working across aerospace optimization, CFD, and hands-on design. This is where the work lives.
I'm RJ, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Georgia, graduating December 2026. I'm drawn to problems that don't stop at the CAD screen, where you have to model it, analyze it, then make it actually work in the real world.
My range runs from aerospace optimization and CFD on a Lockheed Martin-sponsored capstone to running my own business and hands-on field engineering. What ties it together is the full loop of design, build, and test, and communicating the work clearly enough that anyone in the room understands it.
Below are my projects. Work experience is on its own page, and I'm adding to both as I go.
A multi-fidelity workflow that redesigns a UAV wing for less drag at the same lift, built with OpenVSP, AVL, Python (AeroSandbox), and Ansys Fluent. CFD-validated at L/D 21.9, and it won Viewer's Choice at the UGA Capstone Design Showcase. Includes the real optimized airfoils, planform, poster, and code.
Built a small wind tunnel and measured drag on four shapes at two speeds, then rebuilt every run in Ansys Fluent. The streamlined airfoil beat the flat plate by more than 30x, the hands-on version of what the Lockheed capstone optimized for.
Designed, printed, and simulated porous scaffolds for jaw reconstruction, balancing high porosity for tissue growth against surviving real bite loads. I led the fabrication and material studies; FEA showed a very stiff lattice with stress concentrating at the strut junctions.
Teaching myself the full fabrication loop on my own printer, from calibration prints to functional parts, and the principles (thermal control, cooling, tolerances, orientation) that turn a CAD model into a part that performs. The first of many builds to come.