Resume

• Braden Oh Resume (updated December 2023)
• Braden Oh CV (updated December 2023)

Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Undergraduate Hall Effect Thruster
   • Journal of Electric Propulsion, Jan 2023 [Open Access] [PDF]


2. Undergraduate Demonstration of a Hall Effect Thruster: Self Directed Learning in an Advanced Project Context
   • ASEE, June 2020 [Open Access] [PDF]

Other Academic Publications

1. Initial Testing of a 3D Printed Azimuthal Gas Diffuser for Hall Thrusters
   • Accepted, AIAA SciTech, Jan 2024 [AIAA ARC] [PDF]


2. Spectral Characterization of an Educational Hall Effect Thruster
   • American Physical Society (APS) Division of Plasma Physics (DPP), Oct 2023 [APS Bulletin] [PDF]


3. The Current and Future State of Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) Fixed-Satellite Service (FSS) Interference Regulation Metrics
   • AIAA ASCEND, Oct 2023 [AIAA ARC] [PDF]


4. Initial Testing of a 3D Printed Gas Diffuser for Hall Effect Thrusters
   • Olin Undergraduate Research Journal, July 2023 [Open Access] [PDF]


5. Estimating the Probability That the Explosion of an Ink Sphere Produces a Dictionary
   • Olin Undergraduate Research Journal, July 2023 [Open Access] [PDF]


6. Searching for Correlations Between Lunar Crater Features and Location with Machine Learning
   • Olin Undergraduate Research Journal, July 2023 [Open Access] [PDF]


7. I/N Compliance Validation of Telesat, OneWeb and SpaceX's 2020 Ka-Band NGSO FCC Processing Round Applications
   • AIAA SciTech, Jan 2023 [AIAA ARC] [PDF]


8. CubeSat Radiation Hardness Assurance Beyond Total Dose: Evaluating Single Event Effects
   • SmallSat, Aug 2022 [Open Access] [PDF]


9. Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Undergraduate Hall Effect Thruster
   • IEPC, Jun 2022 [Open Access] [PDF]


10. Coordinating Development of the SWARM-EX CubeSat Swarm Across Multiple Institutions
    • SmallSat, Aug 2021 [Open Access] [PDF]

SIGBOVIK Publications

• Solving Double Execution of Java's paint() Method by Counting Down to the Heat Death of the Universe
  • SIGBOVIK, Apr 2021 [Open Access] [PDF]


• Estimating the Probability That the Explosion of an Ink Sphere Produces a Dictionary
  • SIGBOVIK, Apr 2023 [Full PDF]

Beginner Resources for Hall Thrusters

• Introduction to Plasma Physics (Chen): 1.1-1.6 (intro to plasmas), 2.1-2.2 (ExB drift)
• My ASEE paper: 3.0-3.2 (basic constraints of design process)
• My JEP paper: pgs 4-12 (detailed walkthrough of design process)
• Fundamentals of EP (Goebel): pgs 325-340 (quantitative description of HET parameters)

In the News!

• A Year of Firsts for Electric Propulsion (paragraph 7) (Aerospace America, 12/03/23)
• Cube Quest Concludes: Wins, Lessons Learned from Centennial Challenge (NASA, 11/16/23)
• Three Oliners Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (Olin College, 05/18/23)
• Olin Student Team Wins Award at Annual Draper Research Symposium (Olin College, 05/15/23)
• Annual Draper Research Symposium Highlights Impact of Student Research (Draper Labs, 05/09/23)
• OSSTP Graduate School Results Are in - 100% Stanford and MIT Acceptance Rate! (OSSTP, 02/26/23)
• Estimating the Probability That the Explosion of an Ink Sphere Produces a Dictionary (Frankly Speaking, 11/07/22)
• Blasting Ahead in the Space Race (Olin College, 06/16/22)
• Satellite 2022 Trip (OSSTP, 03/20/22)
• NASA Selects Olin's SWARM-EX Satellite Mission; Will Provide Launch Services (Olin College, 03/30/22)
• Olin Students Present at 2021 SmallSat Conference (Olin College, 09/07/21)
• Summer for the SWARM-EX team (Olin College, 08/18/21)
• A Distinguished Paper Award Means One Giant Leap for Students (Olin College, 07/16/20)

Olin College White Papers and Reports

• ISIM Free-Space Optical Communicator
• PoE Bike Light
• PoE 3D Scanner
• QEA I Facial Recognition Algorithm
• QEA I Autonomous Robotics w/ Triple Threat Challenge
• QEA II Self-Balancing Robot
• QEA II Orbital Mechanics Simulator
• Astronomy & Statistics Machine Learning Final Project

Hall Effect Thrusters

• * Olin Team Full Technical Writeup (Oh, Kunimune, Anfenson, Spicher) [pgs 6-19]
• Olin Team Reduced Technical Writeup (Oh, Kunimune, Anfenson, Spicher)
• * Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion (Goebel, NASA JPL) [pgs 325-340]
• * Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Hall Thruster Miniaturization (Warner, MIT)
  • MechE's, there are great diagrams on pgs 77, 87, 92, 95, 97, 102-104; Physicists pick and choose (lots of stuff here)
• Advanced Propulsion for Microsatellites (Khayms, MIT)
• Design and Initial Operation of a Small Low-cost Hall Thruster (Baird, IEPC)
• Performance characterization of a small low-cost Hall thruster (Baird, IEPC)
• Designing an Accessible Hall Effect Thruster (Baird, WMU Thesis)
• Ion velocity distribution in an SPT-100 Hall Thruster (Tenenbaum, IEPC)


• MIT Advanced Propulsion Lecture Notes (MIT AeroAstro)
  • Lecture 10: Basic Electromagnetic Theory and Plasma Physics
  • Lecture 11: Overview of the physics in the plasma sheath
  • Lecture 12: Plasmas in Equilibrium
  • Lectures 14-15: Electrostatic Thrusters (Kaufman Ion Engines)
  • * Lecture 18: Hall Thrusters
  • Lecture 19: Hall Thruster Efficiency


• Potential Mk. II Resources
  • Cutaway Drawing of an SPT-100
  • U Michigan 6-kW Hall Thruster (H6), electromagnetic coils
  • Environmental Testing of the HERMeS TDU-2 Hall Thruster (NASA JPL)
  • Transient Thermal Analysis of the 12.5 kW HERMeS Hall Thruster (NASA JPL)
  • Useful Pictures of Thrusters (though the info on this site isn't all accurate)
  • Magnetic shielding of walls... in a Hall thruster (Mikellides, JPL)
  • Introduction to Plasma Physics (Gibbon, CERN Accelerator School)


• Magnetic Shielding Resources
  • Development and Initial Testing of a Magnetically Shielded Miniature Hall Thruster (IEEE)
  • Design of a Laboratory Hall Thruster with Magnetically Shielded Channel Walls, Phase I: Numerical Simulations (NASA JPL)
  • Design of a Laboratory Hall Thruster with Magnetically Shielded Channel Walls, Phase III: Comparison of Theory with Experiment (NASA JPL)
  • Development of and Acceptance Test Preparations for the Thruster Component of the Ascendant Sub-kW Transcelestial Electric Propulsion System (ASTRAEUS) (Conversano et al, JPL)
  • * Low-Power Magnetically Shielded Hall Thrusters (Conversano, Ph.D. dissertation) [pgs 31-42]

Other

• Beaverworks Autonomous Vehicle Report (Oh, MIT BWSI)