Joseph Massaro

Joey Massaro joins FSU InSPIRE as the first on-site student engineer concurrently attending FSU Panama City to pursue his master’s degree in aerospace engineering and eventually his engineering PhD. He exemplifies InSPIRE’s commitment to focus on career development that supports aerospace and advanced manufacturing, especially those requiring undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees.

In December 2025, Joey earned his Bachelor of Science in Aero/Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University. As an undergraduate, he honed his system design and coding skills as a team leader in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere sampling project, where he led a team of 16 to create a sampling device designed to take a sample of those layers in the Earth’s atmosphere.

During his time as rush chair for the Triangle Fraternity, Joey recruited the largest spring class in his fraternity's history. He led a team of 20 peers to evaluate potential new members and select the next pledge class.

Growing up in an Air Force family, Joey’s lifelong passion for aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics led him to engage in meaningful activities such as the Purdue Office of Future Engineers. There he led seminars informing hundreds of potential students and their parents about the importance of STEM education and the engineering possibilities available.

In the summer of 2025, Joey worked at the HSU Educational Foundation in Fort Walton Beach, where he taught courses on robotics and drone piloting to elementary to secondary students. He also led a team of peers to design and build phase one of a counter-UAS drone.

Joey brings deep, certified skills in AutoCAD, Siemens NX and Fusion 360 and is well versed in computer programming languages such as MATLAB, C, Python, Java, and R Studio. His foundational knowledge in aerodynamics, propulsion, vibrations and dynamics, structures, controls, and zero gravity flight makes him ideally suited to support the manufacturing, aero-testing, and development activities currently underway at FSU InSPIRE.