Liam Nester


Experience

Aerojet Rocketydne - Project Engineer

May 2021 - Present

  • Create and maintain databases to track and expedite disposition process of product noncornformances.
  • Serve as a supplier technical representative to ensure product meet specifications according to technical drawings.
  • Support developmental programs transition from the proposal to pre-production phase.

    • Aerojet Rocketydne - Project Engineering Intern

    June 2020 - May 2020

  • Organized and maintain large databases for statistical based analysis for product dimensions and properties.
  • Co-authored customer-oriented reviews for testing procedures, manufacturing methods, and failure investigations.
  • Supported failure investigations to identify and address nonconformances.
  • Consolidated and optimized large information packages for customer distribution.

    • Aerojet Rocketydne - Project Engineering Intern

    May 2019 - August 2019

  • Utilized MATLAB and improved the statistical thermal analysis process for current and future engineers by organizing and automating data based comparative analysis.
  • Organized and maintained large databases containing more than twenty years of test data.
  • Cross referenced top failure modes with mitigation techniques to ensure product success.
  • Supported failure investigations to identify and address product weaknesses.
  • Analyzed manufacturing processes to increase product dimensional accuracy while minimizing cost.

    • Notable
    Projects

    Analysis of Complex Channel Geometry to Enhance Nuclear Reactor Efficiency for Nuclear Thermal Rockets

    The Alabama Rocketry Association - Graduate Research

  • Modeled the behavior of the working fluid (hydrogen) of a NERVA type Engine to understand the thermal characteristics.
  • Determined possible alternate reactor channel geometries to enhance thermodynamic efficiency.
  • Performed CFD calculations and analysis to determine the changes in efficiency.

    • Liam Nester's Educational GitHub

    https://github.com/LiamNesterEducational

  • Checkout my educational GitHub repositories where I publish walk-throughs of both simple and complex engineering problems.
  • These problems span across many disciplines including propulsion, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and heat transfer, differential and partial differential equations, and more!.

    • © 2021 Liam Nester