Student Profile: Shelley Chan
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
Designed a control system for the ascent and descent stages for the upper stage of a horizontal launch and re-entry vehicle. Applied this design to a reusable vehicle designed by Princeton Satellite Systems, which seeks to produce the vehicle for a number of space agencies for easier launch and to act as a ferry from Earth to the International Space Station..
WHY
“I’m really interested in aerospace systems designs—how spacecraft come together and different subsystems interface and work together, the tradeoffs in decisions in one subsystem, and how they affect another.”
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
Earned certificate in robotics and intelligent systems.
HONORS
Presented results of fluid dynamics research at a conference in Minneapolis. With classmate Chelsea Graf, presented a proposal for a docking station to facilitate manned missions to Mars at the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage forum. Traveled with classmates to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to present a design for a microsatellite for finding extra-solar planets.
EXTRACURRICULAR
Member of the undergraduate Engineering Council. Worked as a research assistant in the Princeton University Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory.
