Current involvement
Avionics team member
SDSU Rocket Project
Contributing to avionics integration, electrical interfaces, and subsystem testing while supporting the development of reliable flight hardware.
BeckhamMoreland
San Diego / Bay Area
Aerospace engineer focused on autonomy, test & evaluation, integration, and embedded software.
I’m driven by work with real ownership. I want to build and integrate aerospace systems that perform outside the lab and help create the next generation of autonomous aircraft by carrying ideas from analysis through hardware, test, and flight.
01 / About
Learning by building,
testing, and iterating.
I’m an aerospace engineering sophomore at San Diego State University and a former NASA Ames UAS engineering intern. I’m passionate about autonomous flight, building reliable hardware, and using hands-on testing to understand how each design can perform better.
This portfolio is a growing record of my engineering work, including the decisions, technical evidence, and individual contributions behind each result.
02 / Experience
Selected experience
A concise record of the teams, systems, and responsibilities that have shaped my engineering work.
Current at SDSU
Student teams and research
Mar 2025 — Present
SDSU undergraduate research
Autonomous UAV Research
Currently designing sensor-mounting hardware and integrating and bench-testing onboard sensors before field deployment, with emphasis on interface validation, data integrity, and flight readiness.
Professional experience
NASA Ames · (AMA)
UAS Engineering Intern
Moffett Field, CA
- Built and integrated 3 SAR multirotor prototypes in 3 weeks, including a flight-ready first build completed in 4 days, by translating 5 Air National Guard consultations and a 6-concept trade study into vehicle requirements.
- Designed and executed 15+ wind-tunnel runs over 18 wind-on hours at 10–85 ft/s; authored the test matrix and TRR material and analyzed six-axis force/moment data with flight logs to quantify redesign stability gains.
- Commissioned and revalidated avionics across 3 builds, resolving controller orientation, motor mapping, battery-sensing, vibration, and altitude-drift issues through functional testing and flight-log analysis.
- Planned and executed 10+ flight tests and 3 carrier-UAS releases from 30+ ft, coordinating readiness, pilots, and telemetry to achieve successful recoveries after all 3 releases.
- Reduced redesigned-component mass by 20%+ through FEA under motor-thrust and helicopter-downwash loads while maintaining analyzed structural margins and addressing test-identified weak regions.
MeshMap Labs
Test and Visualization Engineering Intern
San Francisco, CA
- Led UAV and RTK field-test campaigns across 4 sites, varying altitude, image overlap, and capture parameters to establish repeatable data-collection procedures under changing conditions.
- Diagnosed coverage and data-quality failures through post-flight analysis, planned corrective missions, and verified revised workflows in georeferenced 3D models combining UAV imagery and terrestrial LiDAR.
Axyz Technologies
Full Stack Developer Intern
Oakland, CA
- Built and shipped 12+ Python/Django and JavaScript features from user requirements; debugged database workflows and iterated through test results and stakeholder feedback.
03 / Selected work
Engineering decisions,
documented end to end.
01 project record NASA / AMA / 01 UAS prototyping · test · integration
PRJ.01
NASA Black Hawk–Deployed SAR UAS
At NASA Ames with AMA, I helped turn search-and-rescue mission needs into flight-ready multirotor hardware through rapid prototyping, avionics integration, wind-tunnel validation, and flight testing.
Read the project record04 / Contact
I’m always open to
new opportunities.
If you’re working on something interesting or think I could contribute to your team, feel free to reach out.