About Me
Hello, my name is Daniel Park, a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering student at UC San Diego with a passion for building things that work — and figuring out why they sometimes don’t. Whether I’m machining parts in the lab, designing rocket components in SolidWorks, or coding Arduino systems, I like working hands-on and solving problems in real time.
I’ve spent over a decade playing soccer (still kicking semi-professionally), and I also enjoy tutoring high school students in AP STEM subjects — turns out, explaining Newton’s Laws to teenagers is just as satisfying as running simulations. I’m currently involved in rocket propulsion research, dynamic impact testing, and designing pressure monitoring systems — always looking for new challenges and cool things to build.
Strengths:
Can CAD, code, and play chess — sometimes all at once.
Explains limits and Newton’s Laws to 14-year-olds… and they actually get it.
Finds peace in organizing data tables and functions on Excel.
Never lost a soccer game to robots. Yet.
Love building computers (built my own after my summer job), and love watching rocket launches.
Weakness:
In a committed relationship with the Undo button.
Once spent 3 hours debugging… then realized sensor wasn’t plugged in.
Really likes blowing things up (legally, for propulsion research).