Calendar
Leadership
President: Isha Patel
BS Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering
Minor in Material Science Engineering
Class of 2026
Isha is currently on her third year as a member of PART. She spent one year as a competition airframe member, the next year as a competition airframe co-lead, and finally this year as President. Her goal for this year is to create a living knowledge database to give the organization a solid foundation for all future years so we can continue to grow and build our knowledge and resources.
BMD Head: Caden Edam
BS Data Science
Minor in Economics
Class of 2026
Caden is a junior in data science, minoring in Economics. He started out on the Software team, and is still actively on the team. This year he's working on their Simulation-In-The-Loop software. Last year, he started on the Website Development team in the Business Management Division.
Competition Head: Mateo Llarena
BS Aerospace Engineering
Class of 2025
Mateo is a Junior majoring in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and interested in design and aerodynemics. He was previously a member of the airframe team and spearheaded the landing gear design and manufacturing. His goal for the competition Division this year is to propone a winning UAV for competition that can be improved and iterated upon by future members.
R&D Head: Brandon Davis
BS Aerospace Engineering
Class of 2024
Brandon is a senior in Aerospace Engineering. Previously he has been a part of the Competition Airframe team, and the R&D Airframe lead. His broad goal for this upcoming year is to make a competition-scale VTOL aircraft technology as a technology demonstrator with the potential to integrate into future competition design cycles.
Treasurer: Christine Quitalig
BS Industrial Engineering
Management Minor
Class of 2025
Christine is a Junior majoring in Industrial Engineering and minoring in Management. She was previously a member of the Business Management Division and lead the marketing team.
Team Leads
BMD Leadership
Isha Patel
Director of Recruitment
Kevin Gu
Community Outreach Lead
Avi Manik
Director of Social Media
Christine Quitalig
Marketing Strategy Lead
Competition Leadership
Isha Patel
Airframe Co-Lead
John Rolfe
Airframe Co-Lead
Cameron Johnson
Optics and Avionics Lead
Dane Hindsley
External Software Lead
Aarya Patel
Software Core Lead
Abhishek Kini
GNC Lead
Ethan Walker
Integration and Testing Lead
Dean Smith
Mechanisms Lead
R&D Leadership
Ian Laudo
Airframe Lead
Saahas Kotian
Testing Lead
Parker Hitchcock
Avionics Lead
Niall Moloney
Mechanical Systems Lead
Jason Jong
Manufacturing Lead
Advisors
Dr. Shreyas Sundaram
Dr. Sundaram is a professor at Purdue University in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He conducts research in network science, robustness and resilience of complex networks and systems, dynamics on networks, fault-tolerant and secure control, distributed and decentralized control, graph theory. Dr. Sundaram supports Aerial Robotics at Purdue and provides close advise and insight for the members.
Niall Moloney
Niall is a graduate student studying mechanical engineering, graduating in May 2025. He served as the R&D Mechanisms lead for three semesters, after being a founding member of the VTOL R&D project. Currently, he serves as the VIP program GTA, providing technical and professional mentorship to students throughout PART.
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