James Carroll
Mechanical Engineering | Aerospace Engineering
About Me
Thank you for taking the time to check out my portfolio! I’m a current undergraduate student at Kennesaw State University with interest in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This portfolio is meant to show further depth and details into the projects I’ve worked on, organizations I’m involved in, and personal interests.
Project Highlights
This project is an RC air-deployable glider which is deployed from a rocket with FPV and data collection capabilities. Although beginning as a scientific payload for the 2024 - 2025 NASA Student Launch Initiative, the glider has taken on a life of it’s own. This is still an ongoing project, but is scheduled to complete by mid-April.
Each semester, roughly 225 mechanical engineering students across 45 teams compete in a freshmen class competition to make a car capable of being launched the farthest. The team I led broke the school record with a max distance of 161 feet after designing and manufacturing our car in just one and a half weeks.
As part of NASA Student Launch Initiative, I was tasked with designing a rocket capable of all NASA / team requirements and manufacturing a 45% subscale rocket named Talon I. The rocket was flown and recovered successfully on March 22nd and will continue to fly as the first team rocket in KSU Rocketry history.