Meet The Team
Leadership
President: Isha Patel
BS Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering
Minor in Material Science Engineering
Class of 2026
Isha is currently on her third year as a member of PART. She spent one year as a competition airframe member, the next year as a competition airframe co-lead, and finally this year as President. Her goal for this year is to create a living knowledge database to give the organization a solid foundation for all future years so we can continue to grow and build our knowledge and resources.
BMD Head: Jack Schwyn
BS Integrated Business and Engineering
Class of 2026
Jack Schwyn is a senior in Integrated Business and Engineering, specializing in Electrical Engineering. He started out as V.I.P. student on the R&D team, and is still actively on the team. This year he is working on fundraising efforts for the team as well as building connections with alumni and sponsors.
Competition Head: Lindsey Gourash
BS Electrical Engineering
Minor in Communications
Class of 2027
Lindsey is currently in her 2nd year on PART. Previously she was the competition avionics lead where she was integral to the first custom lithium-ion battery packs for PART aircrafts. Currently, Lindsey is responsible for the bigger picture and ensuring the competition UAV is successful in terms of both software and hardware components.
R&D Head: James Wadhwani
MA Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Grad Student
James is a graduate student in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering with a focus on aerodynamics. Previously he was a part of the R&D Airframe team and then served as R&D Airframe lead. Now, as R&D lead, he hopes to expand the team with a variety projects relating to R&D's latest aircraft, a VTOL modular testbed aircraft. James hopes that this airframe can be used in conjunction with modular components to test technologies PART wants to see for years to come.
Treasurer: Aprameya Pandt
BS Aeronautics and Astronautics
Minor Business Economics
Class of 2027
Aprameya Pandit, is a Junior in Aeronautics and Astronautics with a minor in Business Economics. He is the Treasurer and Aeromechanical Advisor for the club, and works as a Systems Analysis Intern at Collins Aerospace within Raytheon Technologies.
Team Leads:
BMD
Competition
R&D
Ian Stewart
Director of Recruitment
Anna Rapposelli
Community Outreach Lead
Justin Chin
Director of Social Media
Alisha Paul
Marketing Strategy Lead
Dominic Mastromatteo
Co-Airframe Lead
Ryan Schaffer
Co-Airframe Lead
Millan Kumar
Avionics Lead
Leon Wang
Co-Software Lead
Jiaming Situ
Co-Software Lead
Braden Mekeel
GNC Lead
Nora Siri
Mechanisms Lead
Kay Kiew
INT
Gabriel Scott
Airframe Lead
Drew Novak
Testing Lead
Parker Hitchcock
Avionics Lead
Andrew Medlyn
Mechanical Systems Lead
Kevin Resh
SP&I Lead
Advisors:
Calendar
Dr. Shreyas Sundaram
Dr. Sundaram is a professor at Purdue University in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He conducts research in network science, robustness and resilience of complex networks and systems, dynamics on networks, fault-tolerant and secure control, distributed and decentralized control, graph theory. Dr. Sundaram supports Aerial Robotics at Purdue and provides close advise and insight for the members.
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John Rolfe
John is a graduate student studying aerodynamics. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the team and led the competition airframe sub-team, before becoming the competition division lead his senior year. In his current role, John mentors students in the Vertically Integrated Projects program and provides technical advice across all sub-teams.