I am the chief engineer for the Tufts Rocketry Team, a project team under our chapter of the national Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) organization. I lead a team of 40+ students to design, manufacture, and launch personal high power rockets, as well as a competition rocket for the International Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC). Going into our 3rd year of competition, I am overhauling our design to combine lessons learned from previous years with new, innovative subsystems, with the goal of placing top 10 in competition with our most technically advanced rocket yet.