Owner And Ground Instructor
02-2013 - NowEnergy / Materials / Mechanics Teach FAA Ground School Course for Private Pilot training. Improved leadership skills through running my own business and dealing with prospective clients and customers.
Ondrej Karas
Aerospace Engineer and Commercial Pilot
37years • Prague
Summary
I am an Aerospace Engineer specializing in Flight Dynamics and Control Systems. I currently teach several Aeronautical Engineering courses at Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico and I also own a small flight training business, where I act as a ground instructor. My next goal is to grow as a a professional and face new challenges, solving real-world problems.
Skills
Experiences
Professor
08-2012 - NowDesign / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering Research: Autonomous flight controller development using MATLAB/Simulink.
- Specialize in simulation and control systems design for fixed-wing UAVs.
- Worked with the Mexican Air Force to conduct an aerodynamic analysis of the Hermes 450
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This required modifying a CAD model and adapting it for ANSYS Fluent analysis. Analysis was conducted by my student under my supervision. Learnt about 3D model compatibility and modifications required to conduct CFD testing.
- Designed, programmed, tested and put into operation a new web-based employee attendance tracking system. Improved PHP and MySQL programming skills.
Teaching: Control Systems, Flight Dynamics, and Flight Mechanics courses.
- Responsible for planning of classes, coursework, labs and exams.
- Plan and lead class projects, where students design, built and test fully autonomous UAVs. Currently working on multiple UAV projects for surveillance and agricultural purposes.
- Planned, lead and supervised a class project, where students designed a VTOL aircraft using SolidWorks for the American Helicopter Society Student Design Competition.
Graduate Research Assistant
08-2010 - 05-2012 Energy / Materials / Mechanics Research: UAV Simulation Environment for Autonomous Flight Control Algorithms
- Developed and tested flight control systems and path planning algorithms for U.S. Army’s OX, TigerShark, and Pioneer UAVs. Improved MATLAB/Simulink programming skills.
- Focused on fault detection, identification and evaluation (fault tolerant design & flight envelope estimation). Paper presented at the 2011 AIAA MST Conference in Portland, OR
Education & training
West Virginia University
2010 - 2012 Energy / Materials / Mechanics , Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering Research into Flexible Electronic Devices (Conductive materials resistant to bending)
- Participated and helped achieve 3rd place in the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center, FL
West Virginia University
2006 - 2010 Energy / Materials / Mechanics , Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering GPA: 3.57; Dean’s list in Fall 2008 and Fall 2009
Gymnázium Ústavní 400, Praha 8
2000 - 2006 Teaching
My soft skills
Languages spoken
English Native language Spanish Native language Czech Native language Italian Professional German Basic