Systems Engineering and Requirements

Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Summer 2025 internship in the mechanical department at the Grand Prairie office, where Aaryan worked as a Systems Engineering Intern.

Approached switchboard production designs as a system: engineered neutral assemblies that resolved switchboard configuration edge cases across production designs, then moved upstream into the ordering pipeline by writing Python scripts that refined a back-end algorithm to automate the bill-of-materials generation process for orders, tying the mechanical design work to the systems that feed it.

Result: Returned with a full-time offer, which Aaryan accepted; he joins Siemens Smart Infrastructure after graduation.

Purdue Space Program Satellites team, where Aaryan served as Deputy Systems Director for the BoilerBus CubeSat within an organization of 10 teams.

Owned the requirements baseline as Deputy Systems Director, formulating, reviewing, and refining over 200 project system-level and sub-system requirements for the BoilerBus, then performed a Systems Review in Spring 2024 to check the system and subsystem requirements against the design as it matured.

Result: Held the requirements and Systems Review work for a 3U CubeSat program worked by roughly 40 engineers.

RETHi (Resilient Extraterrestrial Habitat Institute) at Purdue, where the systems engineering portion of Aaryan's research addressed safety controls for a lunar habitat.

Performed trade studies to evaluate candidate safety controls, assessing each option against cost and against the resilience of the habitat under a disruption to the lunar habitat, so that control selection could be weighed as a cost-versus-resilience decision rather than in isolation.

Result: The research was presented at the summer symposium at Purdue, with the poster available from the RETHi page.

AAE 418, an advanced experimental design course in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where Aaryan served as Project Manager for a small suborbital experiment.

Managed the small suborbital orbital-refuelling experiment end to end as Project Manager, creating the requirements and budgets for the effort and directing a team of 7 engineers through the design of the experiment, which was intended to be launched on a New Shepard flight.

Result: Delivered the requirements, budgets, and team coordination for the experiment design targeted at a New Shepard flight.