Submitted by Meghan Megowan on Thu, 06/22/2023 - 12:26

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Institution: 
Portland State University
Mentor: 
Andrew Greenberg
Internship Location: 
In-person, PSU
Internship Term: 
Summer 2023
Full time/Part Time: 
Full-Time
Status: 
Closed
Academic Majors Sought: 
Electrical Engineering
Academic Level Sought: 
Undergraduate - Senior
Introduction: 

The Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) is an open source and extremely interdisciplinary student group and lab in the Portland State University Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. Our teams use systems engineering best practices to build sophisticated amateur rockets, liquid fuel engines, and nanosatellites. For more information see https://www.pdxaerospace.org/ and https://www.oresat.org/.

Position Description: 

Lead electrical and computer engineering position to oversee all OreSat0.5 systems, with a secondary project of LV3.1 amateur rocket systems.

Position Responsibilities: 

This internship will be an intense, hands-on systems engineering and management position. You will help manage interdisciplinary teams of students and develop systems-of-systems including rocket recovery systems, satellite attitude control systems, and hardware-in-the-loop testing systems. You will oversee electrical and computer engineering students working on PSAS projects, teach ECAD (i.e., KiCAD) and ECAD best practices to PSAS students. You will work directly with students working on all PSAS electrical projects and oversee the electrical aspects of the PSAS aerospace lab. You will work closely with faculty advisor and experienced industry advisors

Required/Preferred Qualifications: 

Electrical engineering major senior or higher, extensive experience with KiCAD electrical CAD, team leadership experience, and hands-on experience designing, fabricating, and testing electrical systems

Cover Letter Dropbox: 
https://oregonstate.app.box.com/f/c4c96c9e7eca483fb262113231d4e73e