Nathan earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 where he was a bronze tablet award winner. During his undergraduate studies, he participated in several internships in structural testing and analysis at GE Aviation and Boeing. After graduation, he continued to work as a structural test, analysis, and instrumentation engineer on NASA’s Artemis program and then as a mechanical designer for a Boeing Flight Simulation Lab. He began his Ph.D. program in Fall 2022 in the LeDuc Lab and his current research interests lie in exploring methods of biohybridization with robotics to serve applications such as environmental sustainability.
Advised by
Melisa Orta Martinez