Douglas Destro

Douglas Destro

Lancaster, California, United States
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About

Designs custom products with hands-on experience and high level of autonomy. Optimizes…

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Experience

  • Stratolaunch Graphic

    Stratolaunch

    Mojave, California

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    Mukilteo, WA

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    Mukilteo

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    Provo, Utah Area

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    Provo, Utah Area

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    Macaé Area, Brazil

Education

  • Brigham Young University Graphic

    Brigham Young University

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    Activities and Societies: BYU Brazilian Association (VP), French Club

    Vice president of a Brazilian student club (organized events and forums).
    Participated in the 2015 University Rover Challenge as part of my senior project. Awarded second place in overall competition

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    Activities and Societies: BYU Brazilian Association

    I had the opportunity to carry out several experiments from fabricating hardware through computer interfacing and control, data acquisition, data analysis, and writing a formal report describing my results.

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Licenses & Certifications

  • 16.00x: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight Graphic

    16.00x: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight

    MITx on edX

    Issued
    Credential ID f1dff726e981416aaba5d375187369b5

Volunteer Experience

Projects

  • 2015 University Rover Challenge

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    The URC is an international competition hosted by the Mars Society, where teams from different countries have to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside human explorers in the field. In this project, I was responsible to lead a sub team in designing and fabricating the suspension system, electrical box housing, and antenna tower. I also had the opportunity to learn more about product development, planning, prototyping, developing engineering models…

    The URC is an international competition hosted by the Mars Society, where teams from different countries have to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside human explorers in the field. In this project, I was responsible to lead a sub team in designing and fabricating the suspension system, electrical box housing, and antenna tower. I also had the opportunity to learn more about product development, planning, prototyping, developing engineering models, and writing technical reports. After the competition, my team was awarded second place.

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Honors & Awards

  • 2015 University Rover Challenge

    Mars Society

    Second place on the 2015 Rover competition

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • BYU Brazilian Association

    Vice president

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