Avery Banks
Hometown: St. Louis Missouri
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averywbanks/
Biography
Avery Banks is a rising Junior at Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests lie in the areas of guidance, navigation, and controls engineering as well as the application of materials science in aerospace. Currently, Avery is a researcher at his home institution working in the MADLab where he is working on a project developing a pressure manometer using laser Doppler scanning. Last summer he interned in Professor Brian Wardle’s lab in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at MIT, manufacturing carbon nanotube nano composites for thermal protection systems on spacecraft. Avery is passionate and committed to exploring everything in his field. One day he plans to become a professor, continuing to pursue his love for teaching and experimental research.
