Contact

tmvartab@syr.edu


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Education


Master of Science

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Fluids Focus
Syracuse University, May 2020

Bachelor of Science

Aerospace Engineering
Syracuse University, May 2019
Minor: Information Technology Design and Startups


Fun Stuff/Links for Engineers


Engineering Toolbox

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Machine Learning Projects/Competitions

Top 20 Softwares from NASA

Python

r/AskEngineers

A Soft Murmur

Raspberry Pi Scoreboard

Biography


Tyler recently finished both his B.S. in May of 2019 and the 4+1 M.S. program at Syracuse in May of 2020. Tyler worked under Dr. Glauser from 2017 to 2020 on both the UAS and Jet Noise Projects. Aside from his research, Tyler focused on Entrepreneurship during his undergrad with his minor: Information Technology Design and Startups. He has pursued three different startup projects and competed in virtually every startup and business plan competition on the Syracuse University campus. In 2019, Tyler competed at the New York State Business Plan Competition in Albany, NY with his project related to drone noise dampening. Tyler also found heavy interests in Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) and strucural engineering during his undergraduate coursework. Outside of school, Tyler enjoys 3D printing, playing chess, cryptocurrencies, and playing intramural broomball.

Skills


  • Siemens Team Center
  • Altair Hyperworks
  • MathCAD
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • Solidworks (Associate Certified)
  • ANSYS
  • Microsoft Office
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Machine Learning
  • UAS
  • 3D Printing
  • GD&T
  • LabVIEW
  • HTML
  • UAS Piloting

    Interests


  • Test Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • 3D Printing
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Web Development
  • Professional Development
  • Industrial Design
  • CAD and Manufacturing

  • varty

    Posters and Publications


    Professional Experience

    Research Assistant: Summer 2017 - Spring 2020
    As both a graduate and undergraduate research assistant, Tyler has worked on both the jet noise and unmanned systems projects. As an undergrad he assisted with improving various aspects Dr. Glauser's MAE 315 Lab course while helping design a 12-hole pressure probe for a meteorological drone package. Currently in his graduate program, Tyler is helping design UAS experiments to test the validity of a new non-linear control algorithm as well as explore the flow field created by drone swarms. Tyler is also looking into Machine Learning applications to the jet noise project while assisting with PIV measurements.

    Teaching Assistant: Spring 2020
    Served a Teaching Assistant role for AEE 342 Aerodynamics under Prof. John Dannenhoffer III. This included holding office hours weekly while designing and running a lab for students to explore basic converging-diverging duct flow phenomena.

    Teaching Assistant: Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
    Served as a Teaching assistant for both an electro-magnetics physics class as well as a kinematics lab course and interacted with approximately 200 students. Held weekly office hours to assist students with a variety of physics classes and topics. Hosted four recitations weekly to assist and teach students practice problems to accompany a main lecture on a variety of electricity and magnetism topics and held four lab courses weekly to show examples of kinematics in the real world. Assisted with grading exams, homework, and quizzes, along with compiling quiz and homework solutions.

    Teaching Assistant: Spring 2019
    Assisted in teaching approximately 30 students basic and advance methods within the SolidWorks software package. Taught students one on one in a hands-on class on a variety of modeling methods and manufacturing simulations. Helped students prepare for the SolidWorks Student Associate and Professional certification exams.

    Summer Intern: Summer 2017
    Participated in the first ever Invent@SU Program, a quick six week idea to product development program focused around "idea, pitch, prototype." Took second place in the final pitch competition for development of a highway powered wind turbine.

    Engineering Projects

    Supersonic Jet Experimentation and Optimization
    Skytop Turbulence Laboratory
    Measured and analyzed pressure and acoustic data while performing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) on a complex multi-stream supersonic nozzle simulating a next-generation aircraft exhaust. Utilized data to train a neural network to optimize nozzle aft deck plate geometry for noise reduction.

    Analysis of Drone Swarm Turbulence
    Skytop Turbulence Laboratory
    Currently designing an experiment to analyze the wake created by multiple quadcopter drones flying in a swarm. Also examining the response of a DJI Phantom 3 subjected to this complex wake region.

    UAS Charging Tether Aerodynamics Analysis
    Skytop Turbulence Laboratory
    Observed and recorded vortex shedding emanating from a charging tether attached to a DJI S1000 drone subjected to heavy crosswind flows.

    UAS Non-Linear Control Testing
    Skytop Turbulence Laboratory
    Tested the stability of a nonlinear UAS control system reacting to a variety of strong crosswind flows.

    UAS Meteorological Package
    Skytop Turbulence Laboratory
    Collaborated with industry personnel and other students to develop a meteorological drone package to attach to commercial drones and distribute on a widespread scale.

    Structural Analysis
    Undergraduate Project - AEE 471: Design and Analysis of Aerospace Structures
  • Designed a tapered cantilever beam functioning as a wing spar for a small commercial aircraft subjected to a variety of forces and maneuvers. Optimized for cost and weight reduction while validating factors of safety, fatigue life, and deflection.
  • Analyzed fatigue, stresses, and deflections experienced by the space shuttle’s upper thrust structure. Performed hand calculations to determine appropriate sizing of thrust structure spars and driving factors of safety.

    Radio Controlled Aircraft
    Undergraduate Project - AEE 472: Synthesis of Aerospace Systems
    Designed, optimized, and constructed a radio-controlled fixed wing aircraft for a senior capstone project intended to fly in the Carrier Dome while carrying a custom designed water-powered bottle rocket.

    Muted Aerial Systems
    September 2018 - May 2019
    Founder

    Developed a business model for a drone silencing and apparatus technology startup. Currently researching and designing modified noise dampening propellers and active noise cancellation technology for application to consumer and commercial drones.

    ComEnergy Highway Wind Turbine
    May 2017 - May 2018
    Co-Founder

    Designed, manufactured, and tested a functioning wind turbine optimized to be powered by harnessing both natural winds and winds created by automobiles on roadways to generate clean energy. Drafted a complete business plan for submission to the New York State Business Plan Competition. Entered and qualified as a finalist in virtually every startup and business competition on the Syracuse University campus.
  • Awards and Accomplishments

  • Hunter Brooks Watson Memorial Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award - 2019
    Additional Information
  • New York State Business Plan Competition Finalist - 2019
  • SU Impact Prize Finalist - 2018
  • SU Hult Prize Finalist - 2018
  • SU iPrize Finalist - 2018, 2019
  • SU ACC-Inventure Prize Participant - 2018
  • 2nd Place Invent@SU Pitch Competition - 2017
  • Skills USA Mechanical Drafting NH State Finalst, 2nd and 3rd Place - 2014, 2015
  • Leadership

    American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Syracuse University Chapter
    Vice President -- 2017-2018
    Sophomore Representative -- 2016-2017

    Intramural Broomball
    Team Captain -- 2016-2020

    Course Work

    Graduate: Hypersonics, Combustion Phenomena, Graduate CAD/CAM Systems, Evolutionary Machine Learning, CFD, FEA, Orbital Mechanics, Graduate Fluid Dynamics, Graduate Differential Equations and Linear Algebra

    Undergraduate: Aerospace Structures, Propulsion, Aircraft Performance, Aerodynamics, Compressible Flow, Advanced CAD Techniques, Vibration, Controls, Fluids, Ethical Aspects of Engineering, Mechanics of Solids, Thermodynamics, Electrical Engineering Introduction, Calculus Series, Physics Series, CADD and Engineering Graphics

    Affiliations

  • American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
  • American Physical Society (APS)
  • Order of the Engineer