Laura Paquin
Aerospace Engineer, US Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Center for Space Technology, B.S. Aerospace Engineering 2016
Laura Paquin completed her bachelors in aerospace engineering at Notre Dame and graduated in 2016. During the summers she completed a few internships: one in mass properties at GE Aviation, one in structural analysis at Northrop Grumman in FL, and one in flight dynamics at Northrop Grumman in CA. Laura joined Prof. Juliano's lab during her junior year and conducted research involving processing heat-flux contours from infrared thermography. This specifically was used for the identification of boundary-layer transition on the HIFiRE-5 model in Purdue's BAM6QT. After graduating from Notre Dame, Laura pursued her masters and PhD at the University of Maryland in the High Speed Aerodynamics and Propulsion Lab (HAPL), where her thesis work investigated the effects of cooling on hypersonic boundary-layer transition. This research utilized optical diagnostics, schlieren and temperature-sensitive paint (TSP), and leveraged the capabilities of shock tunnels at UMD and CalTech. Laura now works at the US Naval Research Laboratory in the Naval Center for Space Technology, supported by the Karles fellowship.