Brent Justice

I am a very motivated individual with a passion for anything space-related. I spent the first 2 years of my college career at the Ohio State University. I excelled in the honors first year engineering program and came to love it so much that I became a teaching assistant for the program during my sophomore year. During my junior year, I transferred to Purdue University to take advantage of the exceptional program in rocketry propulsion. While at Purdue, I became involved in many great extra-curricular activities such as amateur high powered rocketry and high altitude scientific ballooning. These activities have led me to have a great appreciation for working in a team and working with cross-disciplinary students.

I have been very fortunate to have had some great internship experiences. From January 2013 to January 2014, I interned at SpaceX for the Ground Software team. During this time, I developed software used in mission control for supporting the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket. I became very skilled with LabVIEW as well as good software engineering practices - such as good documentation and good source code control.

Over the 2014 summer, I interned for the NASA Propulsion Academy. This program, consisting of 12 interns, was geared towards fast-tracking students into the world of propulsion engineering. Located at NASA MSFC, I worked with 2 other interns on a 1-Newton thruster test stand. Our objective was to characterize a new monopropellant from the air force - AFM315E. This required a great deal of hands on work for high pressure fluid plumbing and instrumentation wiring. My primary responsibility was to the data acquisition and control - we used a mixture of NI and Dewetron hardware to achieve our requirements.

I have been described as an aeronautical engineer with electrical engineering tendencies. I have developed a passion for testing engineering and I am currently targeting a full-time job in this field.