# Pratyush Neupane > MAE @ UC Davis Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pratyushneupane Student at UC Davis College of Engineering with a major in Aerospace Engineering. ## Work Experience ### Member @ Formula Racing at UC Davis (FSAE Electric) Jan 2025 – Present | Davis, CA Aerostructures Member ### NASA L’SPACE Mission Concept Academy Participant - Team Role: Chief Scientist @ NASA L'SPACE Program Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 Virtual NASA workforce preparation academy dedicated to teaching space mission concept formulation through science, engineering, programmatic, and teaming skills. Demonstrated knowledge by following the NASA mission life cycle, up to submission of a Preliminary Design Review, for a robotic space mission. Attended and engaged in weekly lectures taught by NASA scientists, engineers, and managers. Led the development of the mission’s science goals, objectives, and top level success criteria. Demonstrated by developing a science traceability matrix and completing payload selection. Coordinated with the Project Manager to relay all subteam developments, ensure team-wide understanding of science goals, and ensure engineering design is aligned with science goals for mission success. Led research for landing site selection to ensure that mission objectives were being fulfilled and success criteria were met. ### Project Manager @ NASA L'SPACE Program Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 • Virtual NASA workforce preparation academy dedicated to teaching skills in writing and evaluating professional technical proposals. • Attended and engaged in weekly lectures taught by NASA scientists, engineers, and managers. • Developed a novel solution to address NASA pain point after researching existing state of the art technology. • Co-authored technical proposal in response to request from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. • Managed a team of 12 students and organized the team’s operations and procedures by undertaking several administrative tasks, such as; scheduling weekly meetings, leading task distribution and progress checks, and managing the team’s document organization. • Maintained communication with each team member on a regular basis to receive updates on decisions being made and check in on personal well-being of individual ### Product Design Intern @ Shades Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Brainstorm new feature ideas for Shades and bring them ideas/prototypes to life in Figma. Throughout the process my ideas go through reviews by the rest of the team and then is decided whether to be updated on the app. ### Research Assistant @ University of California, Davis Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Davis, California, United States I work with conviron machines used for emulating different conditions for plant growth. My work consists of various mechanical and electrical aspects. ### Retail Associate @ Safeway Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Davis, California, United States ### Retail Associate @ Trader Joe's Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Corps Member @ San Francisco Conservation Corps Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering University of California, Davis ### High School Diploma Galileo Academy of Science and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pratyush-neupane-774881198 --- Source: https://flows.cv/pratyushneupane JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pratyushneupane/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13