Electrical Engineer

Aaron Wilder

*** * ***** **, **** City, IA *****

Cell: 319-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Education

The University of Iowa August 2009-May 2014

Major: Electrical Engineering

Minor: Mathematics

Engineering Experience

Electrical Engineer I

January 2014 – November 2014

University of Iowa, Operator Performance Laboratory

• Fabricated multiple WIFI-enabled pocket-sized EKG devices for data collection during flight tests

• Modified various avionics hardware and software for both ground-based and airborne simulations

• Constructed Printed Circuit Boards for an autopilot interface and medical research equipment

Electrical Engineering Intern

May 2013 – August 2013

ESCO Automation, Marion IA

• Programmed Allen Bradley PLCs using RSLogix 5000 for use in industrial process control

• Developed interfaces for programs using iFIX

• Modified existing programs without taking active process equipment offline

Electrical Engineering Intern

June 2012 – January 2013

ESP International, Cedar Rapids IA

• Wrote programs for Horner PLCs in Relay Ladder Logic using over 100 rungs of logic

• Designed an automation product worth over $2000 for use in a customer’s factory

• Wired PLCs with sensors and other peripherals for use in automation equipment on a daily basis

• Diagnosed and fixed problems with automation equipment and software

• Constructed new programming cables for archaic machinery for data acquisition with LabVIEW

• Utilized relays to switch high voltages with a low voltage signal

Project Experience

Senior Electrical Engineering Design Professor Clifford Curry

MP3 Player November 2013

• Worked in a small group to create a pocket-size working MP3 player capable of organizing and playing

songs from a Micro-SD card randomly or alphabetically by song title or artist name

• Designed a schematic and printed circuit board using National Instruments software

• Integrated a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and LCD touchscreen

• Programmed in C++ using the Arduino IDE

• Mounted hardware inside of a custom enclosure designed in Creo

Principles of Electrical Engineering Design Professor Clifford Curry

ECG Machine April 2013

• Created a program in LabVIEW to calculate heart rate from a digital input signal

• Generated a computer graph of a real time analog input signal

• Filtered out noise signals using LabVIEW

Embedded Systems and System Software Professor Anton Kruger

Final project April 2013

• Built a wireless computer mouse integrated into a cotton glove

• Experimented with transmitting digital signals over radio

• Used a Microcontroller to interface with both a radio transmitter and accelerometer

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