Student Engineers' Council

Directed Intern, May 2022 - August 2022

About the Organization

The Student Engineers' Council exists solely to provide advancement to students in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. It's mission is to be the representative voice of all engineering students, increase engineering awareness, and foster professional advancement of all engineering students at Texas A&M University. To accomplish this mission they put on programs such as the yearly engineering career fair and the directed internship.

Role

As a direct intern I was placed on a team of five and was tasked to research and devise a product solution for satellite collision avoidance with space debris and other orbital objects. As a team, we researched about the growing need to solve this problem. As more and more satellites enter low and high earth orbit, it become increasingly more likely that a collision will occur not just with other satellites but with the hundreds of thousands of space debris tracked and untracked.

Through out the course of the summer my team and I worked in MATLAB to propagate orbital paths of know space debris tracks put out the Department of Defense. We utilized the SGP4 and SDP4 orbital propagators to accomplish this task. You can view this in our GitHub. After that we worked to design a business model, financial plan, and product to present to a board at the end of the internship.

Skills Acquired/Utilized

Technical

MATLAB Orbit Propagation, SGP4 and SDP4 Git Business Plan Development

Soft

Collaboration Presentation