Mechanical Engineering Engineer

Richard J. Vallett

MSME

*** ******* ****

Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

*********@*****.***

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rjv35

856-***-****

Position Objective Seeking an engineering position in robotics and automation, control

systems, robot

locomotion, path planning, computer vision, simulation and design.

Education

Drexel University College of Engineering

Philadelphia, PA

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

June 2012

Pennoni Honors College, A.J. Drexel Scholar

Bachelor of Science,

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Concentration in Robotics; Dynamics; Control Systems

Cumulative

GPA:

3.5

Work Experience

Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab

(DASL), 2007Present

Philadelphia, PA

Designed a 3DOF waist joint for the Hubo2 KHR-4 humanoid

(http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/~Senior_Design_2011-2012/)

Designed a solar-powered water pump system for a community garden project for the

Enterprise Center

in

Philadelphia, PA

Developed and taught an embedded control s class with the Arduino/LEGO NXT (2010

2011)

(http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rjv35/classes.html)

Mentored undergraduate student UAV/UGV projects

Was an invited guest at Hubo Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

(KAIST) in

Daejeon, South Korea

ACIN (Applied Communications and Information Networking),

2008 - 2009

Camden, NJ

Wrote serial drivers in C++ under Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux for environmental sensor

data collection

affixed to MobileRobots Pioneer P3-AT robot

Wrote control code in C++ under Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux for remote-operation of

MobileRobots

Pioneer P3-AT robot

Demonstrated control of a robot platform using WIMAX at CERDEC in Suffolk, VA

Created the layout for the second version of the ACIN website using the Drupal CMS

Managed a Co-op Computer Science Seminar course at ACIN

Computer Skills

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista,

Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000

Ubuntu Linux

Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/10.0, Eclipse IDE

PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0/5.0, Autodesk AutoCAD 2008/2009/2011

Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Python, Java, LabVIEW, MATLAB

Robotics Hardware: Hubo2 KHR-4, Surveyor SRV-1, Arduino, MobileRobots Pioneer P3-AT

Robotics Software: OpenRAVE, Open CV, MobileRobots ARIA API

References Available Upon Request

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