Aerospace Systems Engineering/Air Navigation/UPC Barcelona

Max Bertran

Passionate about the magic of high performing engineering.

I am an Aerospace Systems Engineering student at UPC with a strong interest in next level technologies that enable humans to move forward to the future. I enjoy understanding how complex systems work, analyzing data, and designing efficient, reliable solutions to real engineering challenges. I’m always eager to learn, collaborate, and participate in academic or industry projects related to aerospace engineering or Cutting-edge and emerging technologies.

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Starship and Orion in low Earth orbit. Artist's concept: NASA/SpaceX.

From 2022 to today

The work, in order

Still being built

In progress

Aerodynamics and Fluid Simulation

AirfoilLab

A browser airfoil simulator for lift, drag and moment, and a study of how AI tools change the way an engineering project is developed.

In progressOct 2026 – present

Mechanical Design and CAD

Beechcraft Bonanza A36 in SolidWorks

A personal CAD project: the whole fuselage of a Beechcraft Bonanza A36 modelled in SolidWorks, with a working nose landing gear that retracts into it.

In progressOct 2026 – present

Air Navigation and Air Traffic Management

Sector entries and demand

Software that works out when each flight enters each airspace sector over a day of traffic, and flags sectors where demand exceeds declared capacity.

In progressAutumn 2026

6 completed, newest first

Completed projects

Electronics and Control

Drone iron bird on Arduino

A test bench that reproduces the internal systems of a drone on an Arduino Mega: sensors, motor control with a safety switch, power monitoring, a stabilised mode, collision avoidance and a telemetry display.

  • Arduino Mega 2560
  • C++ (Arduino)

CompletedUniversity courseworkAutumn 2026

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Air Navigation and Air Traffic Management

Sectorization of the Barcelona FIR

Genetic algorithms and Voronoi diagrams used to split the Barcelona flight information region into sectors with balanced controller workload.

  • MATLAB
  • Global Optimization Toolbox

CompletedUniversity courseworkAutumn 2025

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Air Navigation and Air Traffic Management

Arrival management at Vienna under reduced capacity

A modelled capacity drop at Vienna airport, used to compare ground delay and ground holding programmes on delay, emissions, cost and fairness.

  • MATLAB
  • Optimization Toolbox
  • Excel

CompletedUniversity courseworkAutumn 2025

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Electronics and Control

Tilt measurement and alarm prototype

An ADXL335 and Arduino prototype that detects lateral tilt from the vertical-axis acceleration and switches on a DC motor and warning LEDs past a threshold.

  • Arduino UNO
  • Arduino IDE
  • Proteus
  • LabVIEW

CompletedUniversity courseworkAutumn 2025

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Aerodynamics and Fluid Simulation

Inviscid flow around bodies

A finite-difference stream-function solver for steady, inviscid 2D flow around cylinders, airfoils and arbitrary shapes.

  • Python
  • NumPy
  • Numba
  • SciPy
  • Matplotlib

CompletedUniversity courseworkSpring 2025

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Record

Experience and education

Experience

  • Feb 2025 – presentCamp counsellor and ski instructorFilolo Camps
  • Jun – Aug 2024Engineering internLa Farga YourCopperSolutions

Education

  • Sep 2023 – Jul 2027 (expected)Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering
  • 2021 – 2023Batxillerat, science track
  • Sep 2020 – Jun 2021Transition Year