FAMU-FSU Rocket Team
Team 24 is dedicated to producing a highly competitive sounding rocket by making great
use of all of our team members' specialities and technical expertise.
Tariq is a Florida State University student in his senior year of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a research volunteer at the Center for Intelligent Systems, Controls, and Robotics. Tariq is also the President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student organization at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.
Alex is a Florida State University Mechanical Engineering student. For the past two summers, she has had summer internships with Jacobs Technology in the Kennedy Space Center. She is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and FSU's Flying High Circus.
Brandon is a double major in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at FSU. He is interested in the development of computational fluid dynamics algorithms in the field of aerospace engineering. He spent his most recent summer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where he helped develop and implement task-parallelism in a shock hydrodynamics code. In addition to his senior design project, he is also working to coordinate a number of STEM-related educational outreach activities in the local community.
William Pohle is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at the FAMU-FSU College Of Engineering. He spent his last summer in Indiana working for Norfolk Southern resolving repair issues and train detrailments. Previously William has volunteered his time at the High Performance Materials Institute in Tallahasse where he helped develop a new compositite material.