Jonathan Gross
JonathanRGross@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-r-gross/
EDUCATION:
University of Southern California , Los Angeles, CA
Aerospace Engineering, 2017
Focus: Fluid Dynamics
Cumulative GPA: 3.45
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta , GA
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2012
Focus: Systems Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.9
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
B. S. Aerospace Engineering, 2010
Minor in Engineering Mechanics
Major GPA: 3.6, Cumulative GPA: 3.5
EXPERIENCE:
Mechanical Engineer– Virgin Hyperloop (Jan 2020- present)
- Designing track elements and support hardware as part of infrastructure team
Fluid Systems Engineer– Firefly Aerospace (Dec 2018- Jan 2020)
- Responsible Engineer for first stage pressurization system
Mechanical Engineer– SpaceX (Dec 2016- Sept 2018)
- Designed tooling for engine production department
National Science Foundation EAPSI Fellow– Muroran Institute of Technology (June 2016 – Aug 2016)
- Wrote image processing scripts for non-invasive velocity measurement
Research Assistant– Eliasson Shock Lab, University of Southern California (Aug 2014-Aug 2016)
- Built an exploding wire system to study behavior of an array of converging cylindrical shock waves
Research Assistant– Combustion Physics Laboratory, University of Southern California (Aug 2012- Aug 2014)
- Designing and performing experiments with a novel turbulent combustion chamber
- Experimentally investigating instabilities of hydrogen flames in confined geometries
Research Assistant– Aerospace Systems Design Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology (Sept 2010 – Aug 2012)
- Performed design optimization of concept aircraft (Boeing SUGAR project)
Structures Intern– SpaceX Texas Test Facility (Jan 11 – May 11)
- Used NASTRAN to design testing hardware for Falcon 9 integration
- Participated in testing operations
Intern– Marshall Spaceflight Center (June 2010 – Aug 2010)
- Tested experimental optical flow sensor using LabVIEW
- Analyzed data from an optical flow sensor using MATLAB
Intern- Brety Research Group, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (June 2009 – Aug 2009)
Research Assistant- Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University in Cairo (Jan 2009 – April 2009)
Intern– Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Science Laboratory (Sept 2008 – Dec 2008)
- Wrote test procedures for the verification and validation of flight hardware
- Maintained requirements database
Intern- Harvard Microrobotics Lab, Harvard (June 2008 – Aug 2008)
PUBLICATIONS
Jeon, H., Gross, J., Estabrook, S., Koumlis, S., Wan, Q., Khanolkar, G., Tao, X., Mensching, D., Lesnick, E., Eliasson, V. (2015). Shock Wave Attenuation Using Foam Obstacles: Does Geometry Matter? Aerospace, 2(2), 353–375.
Chakraborty, I., Nam, T., Gross, J. R., Mavris, D. N., Schetz, J. a., & Kapania, R. K. (2015). Comparative Assessment of Strut-Braced and Truss-Braced Wing Configurations Using Multidisciplinary Design Optimization. Journal of Aircraft, 1–12.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Shen, S., Gross, J., Ronney, P., “Flame Propagation in Narrow Channel at Varying Lewis Numbers” 10th US National Meeting on Combustion, April 2017
Gross, J., Eliasson, V. “Generation of Converging Shocks using a Circular Array of Exploding Wires”, Socal Fluids X, April 9 2016
Gross, J., Eliasson, V. “Experimental Investigation of the Interaction of Blast Waves Generated by Exploding Wires” 68th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Nov 23, 2015
Fernandez-Galisteo, D., Gross, J., Kurdyumov, V., Ronney, P., “Premixed flame propagation between two closely spaced parallel plates” ICDERS 2015. [link]
Gross, J., Pan, X., Fernandez-Galisteo, D., Ronney, P., “Low Lewis Number Flame Propagation in a Hele-Shaw Cell ”. So Cal Fluids VIII, UCLA, April 12, 2014
Gross, J., Pan, X., Fernandez-Galisteo, D., Ronney, P., “Low Lewis Number Flames in a Hele-Shaw Cell ”. Western State Section of the Combustion Institute Annual Meeting, Feb 2013
CONFERENCE POSTERS
Gross, J., Eliasson, V., “Experimental Investigation of Shock Wave Amplification using Multiple Munitions”. The 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2015
Gross, J., Pan, X., Fernandez-Galisteo, D., Ronney, P., “Low Lewis Number Flame Propagation in Narrow Channels”. 35th International Symposium on Combustion, San Francisco, Aug 2014
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Chakraborty, I., Gross, J. R., Nam, T., Perullo, C., & Mavris, D. N. (2014). Analysis of the Effect of Cruise Speed on Fuel Efficiency and Cost for a Truss-Braced Wing Concept. 14th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, (June).
Nam, T., Chakraborty, I., Gross, J.R., Mavris, D.N., Schetz, J.A., and Kapania, R.K., “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Truss Braced Wing Concept”, AIAA Aviation 2014 Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 16-20, 2014, AIAA-2014-2423
Wongwiwat, J., Gross, J., & Ronney, P. (2015). Flame Propagation in Narrow Channels at Varying Lewis Number. In 25th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems. Leeds, UK. [link]
SKILLS:
Data Acquisition- LabVIEW, PCC
Signal Processing- MATLAB
Data Analysis- MATLAB, Microsoft Excel, JMP
Video Processing- MATLAB
Design- Solidworks, Pro/Engineer, NX
Simulation- NASTRAN, NetLogo, STK
Optimization- MATLAB, ModelCenter
Database software- Doors, SQL, Subversion
Presentation- Microsoft Office Suite, LaTeX, HTML, Microsoft Visio, VSP
Hand On- Experience with optics, flow systems, combustion, tools and hardware
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