2025-2026 Leadership Team
Madison Johnston: Team Captain
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Senior
Role: Madison oversees all internal and external aspects of MACH and serves as the face of the organization to the aerospace community.
Interests: Madison enjoys reading, particularly fantasy novels, cooking, baking, hiking, and playing board games with her friends.
Logan Akbas: Aerodynamics Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Junior
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Interests: Outside of engineering, I like to watch movies, play cards and other board games, and play/watch sports mainly baseball, basketball, and football.
Alex Lopez: Chief Engineer
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Senior
Role: Alex collaborates with leads and team members to ensure all aircraft components integrate seamlessly into a cohesive system, overseeing technical issue resolution and driving the adoption of new technologies.
Interests: Aside from his interest in computer science and aerodynamics, Alex spends a great deal of his time going on hikes, studying chess, finding new music, and playing an array of sports including soccer, basketball, and tennis.
Christian Anderson: Propulsion Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Senior
Role: Christian leads the propulsion sub-team and oversees battery and propeller selection, thrust optimization, and system integration to ensure efficient and reliable propulsion for the aircraft.
Interests: Outside of designing and building airplanes, Christian enjoys driving on backroads and playing board games with friends.
Olivia Rollison: Outreach Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Sophomore
Role: Livi’s role on the team includes managing the team’s social platforms, recruitment, and designing promotional graphics.
Interests: Livi's engineering interests include CAD modeling, structural analysis, and materials science. In her free time, she enjoys drawing and painting, reading, and attending live music and sporting events.
Jane Foreman: Construction Manager
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Sophomore
Role: Jane manages the construction of MACH’s aircraft and prototypes, overseeing assembly, material selection, and quality control to ensure precise and timely build completion, while coordinating with sub-teams for seamless integration.
Interests: Jane enjoys spending her free time exploring new hiking trails, playing board games, and rock climbing.
Jason Fan: Structures Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Sophmore
Role: Jason trains and leads team members in preliminary and detailed design of the aircraft using CAD software. As part of this process, he works with other leads to select the materials the aircraft will be built out of and determine how they will be manufactured
Interests: Jason enjoys playing musical instruments, especially piano, trombone, and guitar.
Sabrina Hansen: Systems Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Senior
Role: As the Systems lead, Sabrina helps oversee all systems level management among sub-teams, and maintains records of the design process including requirements breakdowns and risk management.
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Ananya Kedia: MDO Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Junior
Role: Ananya serves as the MDO team lead, which provides preliminary sizing among other specifications of our aircraft via the gradient-based optimization code developed in University of Michigan MDO Lab.
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Matthew Dunniger: Finance Lead
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Year: Junior
Role: Matt’s role on the team includes managing the team’s budget and working on sponsorship acquisition.
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