Hi, I'm Daniel Nguyen.
An Engineer.

I love solving problems through design and engineering. I study electrical engineering with a minor in computer science at the University of Louisville.

About meAbout Me

Information About me

I love solving problems through design and engineering. I study electrical engineering with a minor in computer science at the University of Louisville. Outside of school and work I enjoy playing video games, watching anime, basketball, snowboarding, and skating.

My Timeline


May 2022 - Present

Software Engineering Intern - SpaceX

Project lead of several R&D projects to produce starship launch vehicles by reducing the takt time of critical rocket components with robotic automation

Jan 2021 - Present

Undergraduate Student Researcher - Louisville Automation and Robotics Research Institute

Work with a team of engineers to design and develop robots and multi-modal sensor skin

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

Electrical Engineering Intern - General Dynamics Mission Systems

Electrical Hardware for Undersea Systems

Jan 2021 - May 2021

Electrical Engineering Intern - GE Appliances

Electrical Hardware Design

2019 - 2023

B.S. in Electrical Engineering - University of Louisville

Minor in Computer Science

Present

Avionics - River City Rocketry

Design, build, & test electronics and software for a high-powered rocket to compete in national collegiate-level competition

My ProjectsProjects

Skin Sensor

I designed, programmed, and tested a skin sensor. This design can easily detect minuscule touches across multiple sensors. The DAC is calibrated to find the sensor's resting voltage. Changes in the sensor result in a change in voltage from the setpoint of the DAC.

I also programmed a simulation in python to determine the gain, ADC & DAC accuracy, and time required for calibration.

Payload

The payload flight computer acts as a recovery system. It applies sensor fusion to determine the payload's orientation and send the data back to the ground station. It then steers the parachute using stepper motors to land at given GPS coordinates.

The ground station receives the data from the variable drag system (VDS) and the payload flight computer. It then parses the data which is sent to a webserver and the data is visualized.

Sorting Algorithm Visualizer

Sorting Algorithm Visualizer: I created a simple python program that generates a controlled array of random data and displays real-time visualization of the bubble sort algorithm on a GUI. The user can select the size of the array and the maximum and minimum values.

Music Genre Guesser

Machine Learning project that predicts user’s preferred music genre based on age and gender