Tim Brown is a senior at Florida State University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with minors in Mathematics, Physics, and Music. His experience includes work as a research assistant at the Advanced Aero Propulsion Lab on FSU campus, a division of the Florida Center for Advanced Aero Propulsion, under Dr. Farrukh Alvi. He currently serves as a teaching assistant for the junior-level course sequence of Thermal Fluids I & II, under Dr. Juan Ordonez. His engineering interests fall under the general category of the thermal-fluid sciences, including propulsion and power generation.