Hi! I’m Jules, an MIT Ph.D. student in Aeronautics and Astronautics with a passion for STEM education and mentorship. I earned my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace minor) from Caltech, where I gained extensive teaching experience as a TA for engineering courses. I’ve also mentored students through leadership roles, including serving as Co-Founder of the Caltech Rover Team and as President of Caltech’s Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society chapter. I love helping students break down complex concepts, build confidence, and develop problem-solving skills.
Outside of tutoring, I enjoy robotics, playing rugby, contributing to space exploration, and sharing my enthusiasm for STEM!
College:
Education: California Institute of Technology
Undergrad Major: B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Other Degrees/Minors: Minor in Aerospace, Current S.M. & Ph.D student (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
High School:
Awards & Honors: Selected to represent my high-school at the prestigious "Concours Général" in both Math and Physics/Chemistry in my senior year, National Merit Honorable Mention, Ranked 20th in France in a Math Olympiad national team selection test in my junior year of high school (2019)
Interests & Activities: Math Olympiad with the French National Math Olympiad team, Captain of local club rugby team, Co-founder of a math tutoring club at my high school. Co-Chair of the high school MUN club
SAT Scores: 1600 (800 Reading/Writing, 800 Math)
AP Exams: 5 English Literature and Composition
SAT Subject Tests: 800 Math Level 2, 800 Physics
Other:
Other Awards: Best paper in the Team presentation category at SciTech 2021, 1st in the Team presentation category at the AIAA Region VI 2022 Student Conference, ME72 38th Annual Robotics Competition 1st Place, Tau Beta Pi: Member and Elected Caltech Student Chapter President, ME14: Design and Fabrication: Transmission Design Contest 1st Place, NASA BIG Idea Challenge 2022 Finalist and Award for Most Visionary Concept, NASA BIG Idea Challenge 2021 Finalist and Award for Best Product Development
Other Interests & Activities: At Caltech, I was involved in: Caltech Rover Autonomy, Technology and Exploration Research (CRATER) Sept. 2022 − Present, Team Co-Founder and Mechanical Subteam Lead, With 15 other undergraduates, designed and built a rover that was selected for the 2nd phase of URC 2023, Competed in the Canadian International Rover Challenge (CIRC) 2023 in Drumheller, Alberta, Rover capabilities include extreme terrain traversal, autonomous navigation, in-situ sample acquisition & analysis, Caltech American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Chapter (AIAA Caltech), 2022 NASA BIG Idea Challenge Finalist (Shuttle sub team deputy lead) Sept. 2021 − Nov. 2022, With 14 other undergraduates, designed LATTICE, a self-deploying lunar cable-way for rapid and reliable transport of equipment and materials across extreme lunar terrains, Awarded $180k by NASA to build, test and demo LATTICE, and present at the 2022 BIG Idea Conference (JPL), Designed the shuttle, a robot capable of tensioning and traversing cables in the lunar environment between stakes, Responsible for requirement generation, shuttle integration into LATTICE architecture, shuttle electronics, 2021 NASA BIG Idea Challenge Finalist (Mechatronics sub-team) Sept. 2020 − Nov. 2021, Designed the Habitat Orientable and Modular Electrodynamic Shield (HOMES) for lunar dust mitigation, Designed HOMES’ electrical systems: KiCAD/Altium PCB design, circuit design, soldering and HV testing, Managed $180k NASA award as team Treasurer, including work stipends, hardware and travel expenses, Hosted PDR & CDR with Caltech professors and JPL engineers, soliciting feedback throughout the design process, Concerted with astronaut Dr. Robert Behnken to discuss design compatibility with astronaut movement restrictions, SURF Fellow: Development of novel model for soot formation in turbulent flames June 2021 − Aug. 2021, Dr. Guillaume Blanquart’s research group, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech Pasadena, California, Edited Fortran and C code in NGA, the lab’s proprietary CFD solver, to extract additional data from simulations, Interfaced this data with a Monte Carlo solver to stochastically model soot coagulation and condensation.
Publications: Tisdale, M. et al. including P´enot, J., ”Design of a Modular and Orientable Electrodynamic Shield for Lunar Dust Mitigation,” AIAA 2022-2623, 29 December 2021.
Location: Other
