I was always a tinkerer and builder as a child. My Junior year, when I went to Durham to attend the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, where I took advanced classes in mathematics, science, and engineering. I also served as the Captain of the FIRST Robotics Team and on the state leadership for North Carolina Youth and Government.
I later attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. I graduated with High Distinction with a degree in Engineering, focusing on Mechanical and Controls Engineering. I worked on the Hyperloop project there with a coalition of other schools (see Projects page for more). I worked on several clinic projects for AT&T and DirecTV, as well as researching beam dynamics using the accelerated modes method under Professor Philip Cha. I was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, and was also selected for the Eugene Kopp Scholarship.
In 2019, I completed my Masters of Science in Engineering at MIT's AeroAsto Department. My research was under Professor Leia Stirling in the Human System Lab, and I focused on actuated spacesuits and the geometry of hard-component space suits. I am now a PhD Candidate under Professor Kerri Cahoy in MIT STAR Lab. In addition to some TAing, my work is focused on cubesats and in-space construction. In 2020, I was selected as a Matthew Isakowitz Fellow.
I interned at Millennium Space Systems, working on an Autonomous Marine Testbed. This involved designing and building a boat to test satellite hardware. I also interned in Mechanical Systems at Blue Origin. My most recent internship, as part of the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program, was at Astrolab, working on commercial rovers for the Moon and Mars.
Resume:
A recent copy of my resume can be found here.
Publications:
I later attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. I graduated with High Distinction with a degree in Engineering, focusing on Mechanical and Controls Engineering. I worked on the Hyperloop project there with a coalition of other schools (see Projects page for more). I worked on several clinic projects for AT&T and DirecTV, as well as researching beam dynamics using the accelerated modes method under Professor Philip Cha. I was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, and was also selected for the Eugene Kopp Scholarship.
In 2019, I completed my Masters of Science in Engineering at MIT's AeroAsto Department. My research was under Professor Leia Stirling in the Human System Lab, and I focused on actuated spacesuits and the geometry of hard-component space suits. I am now a PhD Candidate under Professor Kerri Cahoy in MIT STAR Lab. In addition to some TAing, my work is focused on cubesats and in-space construction. In 2020, I was selected as a Matthew Isakowitz Fellow.
I interned at Millennium Space Systems, working on an Autonomous Marine Testbed. This involved designing and building a boat to test satellite hardware. I also interned in Mechanical Systems at Blue Origin. My most recent internship, as part of the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program, was at Astrolab, working on commercial rovers for the Moon and Mars.
Resume:
A recent copy of my resume can be found here.
Publications:
- McKeen, Patrick and Leia Stirling. “Tradespace Exploration of Geometry for a Spacesuit Hip Bearing Assembly ” in IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, Montana, 2020. (Accepted, in press)
- Cullinane, Conor, Patrick McKeen, Richard Rhodes, and Leia Stirling. “Hip Torque Decomposition with a Computational Mark III Space Suit Model” in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering . (Accepted, under review)
- McKeen, Patrick. “Modeling and Tradespace Exploration of a Space Suit Hip Bearing Assembly using Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Range of Motion Analysis” as MIT Master’s Thesis. September, 2019.
- Co-Author: Aguilar, Alexa, Patrick Butler, Jennifer Collins, Markus Guerster, Bjarni Kristinsson, Patrick McKeen, Kerri Cahoy, and Edward Crawley “Tradespace Exploration of the Next Generation Communication Satellites ” in AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition . San Diego, California, 2019.
- Author: McKeen, Patrick, Shane Jacobs, and Leia Stirling. "Analysis of Human Postural Control in the Demonstrator Spacesuit " In International Conference on Environmental Systems . Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2018.