Daniel Pineda
Associate Professor
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Pineda is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UTSA and principal investigator of the UTSA Laser Spectroscopy and Chemical Propulsion Laboratory with nine years of professional experience in combustion, spectroscopy, and chemical propulsion. He develops quantitative multidimensional thermochemical imaging and novel spectroscopic techniques to probe non-ideal gas behavior at extreme temperatures and pressures, and applies isotopic tagging for time-resolved ignition studies. A versatile experimentalist, he spans quantum-mechanical and chemical-kinetic model development to desert field-testing of custom liquid rocket engines, having mentored a student team that set a collegiate altitude record for a liquid propulsion system. His industry role as a spectroscopist and back-end developer at SPECTRAPLOT LTD bridges lab science with production software for spectroscopic modeling. Comfortable securing resources, mentoring students, and operating in high-risk test environments, he brings a rare combination of hands-on rocket testing and advanced optical diagnostics. Based in San Antonio, he focuses on solving convoluted energy and propulsion challenges where thermal science and applied spectroscopy intersect.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Thermal/Fluid Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Thermal/Fluid Systems at The University of Texas at AustinRonald Reagan High SchoolGithub contributions (5)
JLUrban/Cantera-Example-Notebooks
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 10 months
Combustion-Transport-Analysis/Virial-Coefficient-Data-for-Combustion-Species
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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