Samantha Jones is a sophomore engineering student from Brownsville, TX. In pursuit of her
aspirations to have a career in the aerospace industry and work for the Department of Defense,
Samantha maintains several leadership roles on campus. Aside from VSCL, she is a part of the
AggieSat Laboratory and Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Within AggieSat Laboratory,
Samantha acts as Outreach Co-Manager, Shadow Corp Lead, and is a member of one of the
rover building teams. She is also the Outreach Co-Chair for SWE. Lastly, she works for the K-12
Outreach Program known as Spark! Samantha is extremely passionate about aeronautics and
space exploration and is ecstatic to use the knowledge she acquires at VSCL to propel her
career and set herself apart.
Madeline King
Madeline King is a sophomore in the College of Engineering pursuing her Bachelor’s of Science. She is expected to graduate in May 2026 and has been a member of VSCL since Fall 2022. At VSCL, Madeline created an automated battery management system and supports the flight test operations as a ground handler. Madeline has interned with NASA over multiple summers working with Rovers and Robotics as well as Avionics Systems and Integration. Her professional interests are avionics, flight operations, and aerospace systems.
Katelyn Lancaster
Katelyn Lancaster is a Senior pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Mathematics minor. She has been an active member of VSCL since Fall 2020 working in flight test operations, system identification, and the Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) project. Katelyn will be continuing her system identification work with a fall project integrating SIDPAC analysis for our current vehicles. Katelyn has interned the previous 3 summers at Lockheed Martin working in Configuration Management and Flight Test Engineering.
Reza Langari
JR Thompson Endowed Chair and Department Head, Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Aerospace Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Noah Luna
2nd Lieutenant Noah Luna, USAF, is a Master’s student in the aerospace engineering department. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering and Computer Science. During his undergraduate studies, he performed research on a neural network based flight control system for an ongoing fixed-wing project through the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). Additionally, he completed an internship and further research with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as a Software and Flight Test engineer developing nonlinear adaptive flight controls for aerial systems. He has been selected to go to pilot training after earning his Master’s degree from Texas A&M. At VSCL, Noah will be working on Adaptive Control for Multiple Time Scale Systems.
Scott McHarg
Pilot
Private Pilot ASEL
Civilian Contractor/Instructor for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marines flying the RQ-2 Pioneer UAV ’93-‘96
3,100 logged hours as an External Pilot
2011 US National Champion Runner-up in Precision Aerobatics
Futaba Factory Team Pilot
Castle Factory Team Pilot
Texas A&M UAS Supervising Authority Committee Member
Texas A&M RELLIS Operations Committee Member
TAMU AERO SAE Design Team Advisor
Texas A&M AERO402 Senior CAPSTONE Design Consultant/Instructor
Cassie-Kay McQuinn
Cassie-Kay McQuinn graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering with Summa Cum Laude and Engineering Honors. Cassie-Kay is a M.S. student and has been an active member of VSCL since Fall 2021, working in system identification. In addition to completing Engineering Honors, she is a Presidential Endowed Scholar, the 2021 Aerospace Engineering Advisory Board Scholarship recipient, and has earned a certificate of Holistic Leadership in Engineering through completion of the Zachry Leadership Program. She is the current President of the Texas A&M chapter of the Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Engineering Honor Society. While being a grad student she has interned with Sandia National Labs and most recently with the Air Force Research Lab researching safe autonomy for aerospace systems. As an undergraduate she interned with L3Harris Technologies working in the Structural Analysis and Structural Design departments. Cassie-Kay’s main interests include flight test engineering, aircraft dynamics and system identification.
Luis Munoz
Luis Munoz is a senior pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering. He has been an active member of VSCL since summer 2023. He has worked on flight testing of the labs primary flight platform in the Texas A&M University Oran W. Nicks Low-Speed Wind Tunnel. He has experience working as a research assistant at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) aerospace center designing a CubeSat model. His interests are in flight controls and dynamics.
Ankush Rao
Ankush Rao is a sophomore Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science student from Austin, TX. Ankush aims to pursue his interests in guidance and navigation technology, along with space system design. Joining VSCL in Spring 2024, he will be working on Enhancing the Cycle-of-Learning for Autonomous Systems to Facilitate Human-Agent Teaming. In addition, he is a part of AggieSat Laboratory and is a researcher at the Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center. Ankush is looking forward to gaining valuable skills and insight through the combination of Computer Science and Aviation.
Sarah Rosinbaum
Sarah Rosinbaum is a Senior pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. She has been a member of VSCL since the Fall of 2020, working in documentation revision and inertial testing of vehicles. Sarah has interned at Texas Turbine Conversions inspecting aircraft parts and at Alpine Advanced Materials as an engineering/quality intern.