Executive Board
2020-2021
TRISTAN KINNEY
President
Tristan is a rising 4th year Mechanical Engineering student with a specialty in controls and robotics. Starting as a Vulcan-II‘s structures engineer he soon founded the “Rocket Lander Test-bed” and serves as the project manager for the project along with co-leading the propulsion team with Paul Guyett. He hopes to push the bounds of what SEDS is capable of by attempting to be the first students to ever propulsively land a rocket in order to highlight the importance of reusability and technology development in commercial space! When he is not building over-glorified ICBMs Tristan spends his time as a barista at M.O.M. coffee house in Muir and likes to collect vinyl and cassettes. Additionally, Tristan has completed a hybrid propulsion internship at Parabalis Space, a vehicle integration and test internship at Relativity, and is currently working as a propulsion intern at Relativity.
VICTORIA ALANIS
VP Engineering
Victoria is a rising 4th Year Chemistry and Anthropology Dual Major minoring in Mechanical Engineering and German. She was formerly the Structures Lead of Colossus and now serves as the Colossus Project Manager as well as Co-Lead of the Methane Rocket. She plans on pursuing a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering once she graduates, and hopes to use engineering to develop cutting-edge, sustainable technology to create a better future. She is excited to continue revamping and improving Colossus with the aim to give schools around the Western U.S. an accessible test stand and hopes to launch the Methane Rocket by June 2022. In her free time, Victoria likes reading books from her local library and walking rescue dogs. Victoria is currently working as a mechanical engineering intern at Launcher Space.
ELIZABETH NELSON
Head of Internal Affairs
Liz is a rising 4th year Aerospace Engineering major. Starting as a Vulcan-II Structures engineer, she later served in this same position her sophomore year. After facing severe sexual harassment, Liz founded the SEDSxFEM project in order to diversify our chapter and give outreach to freshmen women engineers from underserved backgrounds. She hopes to expand the outreach project after launching the Vulcan-II rocket in summer 2021 and is looking forward to her second round as recruitment chair. In her free time, she enjoys relaxing at the beach, iced coffee, and her rescue cat Mookie. Additionally, Liz has completed an avionics mechanical design internship at The Spaceship Company, and is currently working as a propulsion intern at Virgin Galactic.
RUSUL ALBUSULTAN
Director of Engineering, Electrical
Rusul is a rising 4th year Electrical Engineering Major. Rusul started on the Pythia Cubesat team and is a mentor for the SEDSxFEM project. She is currently working as a hardware development intern at Amazon.
CHAZTINE “CX” EMBUCADO
VP Operations
CX is a rising 4th year Electrical Engineering major. She joined SEDS as a member of the Electronics team for Colossus. While she continues to work on Colossus, she is also a member of the Electronics team for the Methane Rocket. In her free time she enjoys swimming, journaling, and watching Formula 1.
KENNETH WA
VP Business
Kenneth is a transfer student in his last year studying Aerospace Engineering. He joined SEDS’ propulsion team as the Nephas pintle injector development engineer as well as a propellant feed teammate on the Lander Testbed project. Kenneth’s business background comes from his work with nonprofit fundraising for STEM programs and alumni roles within First Robotics. He is currently working as an aerostructures engineering intern at Collins Aerospace.
Previous Years
| Year | President | VP Operations | VP Engineering | VP Business | Head of Internal Affairs |
| ’20/’21 | Patrick Finn | Breana Guerrero | Tristan Kinney | Victoria Alanis/ Vicente Lopez | Nathan Cramer/ Scott Hall |
| ’19/’20 | Surya Vohra | Samantha Lee | Patrick Finn | Max Kelly | Liz Nelson |
| ’18/’19 | Surya Vohra | Guinevere Berg | Jack Najarian | Tzinti Aguirre- Medina | Max Kelly |
| ’17/’18 | Briana Puktianie/ Jack Najarian | Jack Najarian | Dennis Ren, Matt Santos | Heather Skye | Max Kelly |
| ’16/’17 | Darren Charrier | Feennette Navarro | Faris Hamdi | Ben Stenson | Harley Norton |
| ’15/’16 | Jesse Lang | Feennette Navarro | |||
| ’14/’15 | Deepak Atyam | Alex Finch |