Daniel Paredes

Daniel Paredes is a graduate student pursuing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermo-fluid sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with minors in physics and mathematics from the University of Denver. His master's coursework includes Rocket Propulsion, Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control, and Compressible Flow.

Daniel has gained valuable experience through internships, including one at the Transportation Technology Center where he contributed to developing numerical models for rail-wheel interactions and participated in rail-car testing. Currently, he is interning at the DoD's High Performance Computing Internship Program, working on computational fluid dynamic models for heavy-drop scenarios involving personnel and parachutes from a C-17 aircraft. Additionally, Daniel serves as a teaching assistant and lab instructor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

With a keen interest in the aerospace industry, Daniel Paredes is actively seeking a career as an engineer in this field.