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Michael Keraga

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Bio

My dream as an aerospace engineer is to make spaceflight accessible to everyone and for space agencies to launch spacecraft daily for the betterment of humanity. Hopefully within my lifetime, I could experience what it is like to venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere, perhaps on a rocket that I took part in designing. I am aware that this will be no easy task and that I have a long journey ahead of me as I am currently pursuing my educational prowess, but I am up for the challenge. My passion for aerospace technology and my conscientious attitude will help me overcome the many obstacles I have yet to conquer.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

Master's degree program
2024 - 2025
  • Majors:
    • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

Bachelor's degree program
2020 - 2023
  • Majors:
    • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering

Suffolk County Community College

Associate's degree program
2017 - 2020
  • Majors:
    • Engineering Science

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Master's degree program

  • Graduate schools of interest:

  • Transfer schools of interest:

  • Majors of interest:

    • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering
  • Not planning to go to medical school

    • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Defense & Space

    • Dream career goals:

      To achieve an engineering leadership position within the rocket propulsion field.

    • Waiter

      Atria Senior Living
      2017 – 20203 years

    • Driver

      DoorDash
      2020 – Present4 years

    Sports

    Soccer

    Intramural
    2006 – 201711 years

    Research

    • Physics

      Brookhaven National Laboratory — As an intern, I collected current-voltage data on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors at cryogenic temperatures using a cryostat and a parameter analyzer. Then I processed and plotted the collected data via Python.
      2020 – 2020

    • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering

      Georgia Institute of Technology - Ben T. Zinn Combustion Laboratory — Undergraduate Research Assistant - Support PhD students in designing, part resourcing, and assembling a rig that'll be used to perform the nitrogen oxides measurements
      2021 – Present

    Public services

    • Volunteering

      Boy Scouts of America — As a leader, my job was to fund, design, and build the project while overseeing the the project's progress from beginning to end.
      2016 – 2017