UC Irvine | Aerospace Engineering Student

Alexander Amadeo-Ranch

Aerospace engineering projects in spacecraft structures, mission analysis, controls, simulation, MATLAB and Python work, and hands-on mechanical execution.

Featured Aerospace

UCI CubeSat Structures

Student spacecraft structural analysis with static and modal simulation deliverables.

ANSYS Structures Modal analysis
Open project

Featured Mission Analysis

MAE 146 Mission to Didymos

Earth-to-Didymos transfer analysis with orbital propagation, Lambert solving, and porkchop plotting.

MATLAB Astrodynamics Lambert solver
Open project

Featured Controls

MAE 106 Projects

PID controller design and robotics verification work from MAE 106.

PID Robotics Testing
Open project

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Aerospace | Structural analysis

UCI CubeSat Structures

Project: Structural analysis on a student spacecraft component with static and modal simulation outputs.

Files: Frequency and static clips plus a CubeSat overview PDF.

ANSYS Structures Modal analysis Design review
% Mission to Didymos
rv_earth_dep = propagate_elliptical(rv_earth_ref, t_earth, MU);
rv_didymos_arr = propagate_elliptical(rv_didymos_ref, t_didymos, MU);

[v1_trans, v2_trans, ~] = lambert_universal( ...
  r1_nom, r2_nom, tof_nom, MU, 0, 1e-8, 1e-8);

dV_tot_nom = norm(v1_trans - v1_earth) ...
  + norm(v2_trans - v2_didymos);

MAE 146 | Mission analysis

Mission to Didymos

Project: Earth-to-Didymos transfer analysis using orbital propagation, Lambert solving, and porkchop plots.

Files: Final report, mission script, and supporting MATLAB functions.

MATLAB Astrodynamics Transfer analysis Delta-v
Photon path simulation output from MATLAB

Simulation | MATLAB

Photon Paths Near a Black Hole

Project: Computational physics model showing photon capture, escape, and critical trajectories near a black hole.

Files: MATLAB source plus the final simulation image.

MATLAB Computational physics Visualization Scientific modeling

Hands-on engineering | Mechanical work

Mechanical Project Logs

Project: Installation and troubleshooting work across suspension, braking, lighting, tuning, and related upgrades.

Files: Video clips and stills from completed mechanical work.

Installation Diagnostics Mechanical systems Documentation

Contact

Open to internships, research, and engineering roles.

LinkedIn is the primary contact point for portfolio follow-up, project questions, and recruiting outreach.

Relevant areas

Spacecraft structures, controls, mission analysis, simulation, technical writing, and hands-on engineering support.

Recommended first reads

CubeSat Structures, MAE 146 Mission to Didymos, MAE 106 PID Controller Design, and the resume PDF.