AE & EE @ Illinois Tech | 2025 Brooke Owens Fellow
Hi! My name is Han, and I'm a graduating senior studying Aerospace and Electrical Engineering at Illinois Tech.
At IIT, I lead the Illinois Tech Rocketry R&D team to design and launch 7 different dual-stage rockets. My goal is to build and launch the first student-built dual-stage rocket to cross 100km.
I also hold FAA Part 107 sUAS (Remote Pilot), FCC HAM Radio License - Technician Class and TRA Level 1 & 2 Certification
Thus far, I have focused my engineering efforts in the following areas: solid propulsion, high-altitude rockets, composite material, hardware design, wireless communication system and UAV system.
Last summer, I interned at Hermeus as an Avionics Engineering Intern and Brooke Owens Fellow.
Outside of rocketry, I also enjoy building and flying drones. I'm currently working on building a long-range autonomous drone for my graduate class.
When not working, I spend my free time taking photos, watching documentaries, drawing, baking, and playing the piano.
Part-time | Sept 2024 - Present
Illinois Institute of Technology
Internship | May - Aug 2025
Hermeus - Atlanta, GA
Leadership | Sept 2021 - Present
Illinois Tech Rocketry
Project | Jan 2024 - May 2024
2023-2024 AIAA Undergraduate Team Spacecraft Design
Internship | Sept 2023 - Dec 2023
S&C Electric Company - Chicago, IL
Apprenticeship | Sept 2022 - Dec 2022
NASA L'Space - Remote
Apprenticeship | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
NASA L'Space - Remote
Leadership | Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
Scarlet Spacehawks - NASA Robot Mining Competition
Scarlet Spacehawks is an interdisciplinary team representing Illinois Tech at NASA's annual Robot Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center. The team works together to build an autonomous robot capable of traversing the arena, mining an icy regolith simulant, and returning the collected substance to the collection bin.
Research | Jan 2022 - May 2022
Illinois Institute of Technology
Check out some of my projects below! While my main focus is rocketry, I enjoy exploring a wide range of multidisciplinary projects, from building drones, designing hardware systems to developing ML models for object detection and image classification.
Vision-X is a long-range autonomous surveillance drone capable of 40 minutes fly time, 10km video transmission with auto avoidance and object detection features using ultrasonic sensors, Raspberry Pi, and PiCam
For my ECE 510 class, I work on various IoT experiments with wireless data acquisition, building client-server communication to encrypt and decrypt data, and more!
Traffic Light Controller Implementation on Arduino UNO
Motion Sensing System using Accelerometer and Raspberry Pi
Wireless Data Acquisition using Temperature Sensor
Human-Machine Interface: Cloud Database and Mobile Device
Obstacle Detection using Ultrasonic Sensor and Zigbee
LoRa and HC-12 Communications
Internet of Things Cybersecurity
Design and simulation of overvoltage/undervoltage, overcurrent and reverse polarity with LTC 4368 using KiCAD and LTSpice
Improve the performance of Detection Transformer (DETR) by addressing detection accuracy and training efficiency
Train EfficientNet-B0 baseline model on a CIFAR-10LT dataset
ITR's first full-scale step-down dual-stage rocket with targeted altitude of 80,000ft and Mach 2.5
ITR's first full-scale step-down dual-stage rocket with targeted altitude of 80,000ft and Mach 2.5
A dual-stage rocket with targeted altitude of 60,000ft
ITR's third dual-stage rocket is designed for the 2024 Argonia Cup Rocket with a targeted altitude of 12,300ft and 80 golf balls payload
ITR's second dual-stage rocket
ITR's first dual-stage rocket