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Between completing my M.S. at Washington University in St. Louis and beginning my Ph.D. at the Colorado School of Mines, I worked in the Bay Area of Northern California in several engineering roles focused on aerospace and mechanical design.

At Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, I worked with a team to develop an advanced fluid dynamics solver designed to resolve interference effects between helicopter rotor wakes, surrounding rotorcraft structures, and ground elements.

The challenge was to accurately capture the micron-scale vortical structures inherent in rotor wake dynamics while modeling the full-scale geometry of the rotorcraft. The solution we chose was to use a Lagrangian solver that modeled individual "vortex particles" rather than the traditional, grid-based Eulerian solver.

Miasolé was a startup that designed thin-film solar cell manufacturing equipment based on cadmium-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS). The technology enabled scalable micron-sized layers deposited sequentially via sputtering deposition on a metal foil backing under high vacuum.

Our group was focusing on magnetron design and how to maximize the material usage and deposition uniformity during sputtering. I worked to model and optimize the magnetic field within the magnetron that would minimize the "dog-bone effect" commonly seen in rotating sputtering targets.

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