Tyler B. Hannan
**** ** ** ******* ******* Beach, FL 33064 954-***-**** ***********@*******.***
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, December 2013
• GPA: 3.1
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, May 2012
• GPA: 3.5 (Lera Steven’s Scholarship, Dean’s List: 2 semesters)
Work Experience
Machine Shop Vice President: December 2014 to present at C.A. Precision
• Operate mills, lathes and other machinery to meet the precise requirements of customers
• Act as a customer liaison and manage the other employees
• Prepare quotations and invoices
• Prioritize and participate in all of the day-to-day tasks necessary for successful business
operation
Graduate Research Assistant: June 2012 to December 2013 at Ben T. Zinn Combustion Laboratory
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Worked as part of a team on a multi-year study of compressible turbulence generation
• Operated a supersonic wind tunnel and collected data to support a fellow student’s PhD
Thesis
• Prepared the supersonic wind tunnel for its future role in the project
• Designed a schlieren optical system for the project
• Designed a well-conditioned turbulent jet to test a two-point laser velocimetry system
• Wrote a research paper on turbulence generation that will help guide future tests done by the
research team
Vanderbilt Research Internship: Summer of 2011 at Vanderbilt University
• Studied porosity formation in capillary channels
• Designed and employed an apparatus to make temperature measurements in the
channels
• Operated and troubleshot lab equipment
Student Clubs
Vanderbilt Rocket Club
• Competed in NASA’s USLI rocketry competition: Third Place Overall, Payload Design
Award, Educational Outreach Award
• Helped create a subsonic ramjet, mount it on a rocket and test it in flight
• Gained hands-on experience from rocket construction, test setups and launch
preparations
• Predicted flight trajectories with the use of RockSim (flight simulation software)
• Solved a persistent problem with the rocket’s stability with the use of RockSim
• Co-authored technical documents and gave formal presentations
Certifications and Memberships
• EIT Certification
• ASME Membership
Additional Skills
- Solidworks - GD&T - MS Office - Machining
- MATLAB - LabVIEW - Pro/ENGINEER - Technical Writing