Andrew McBrayer
***** **** *** ** • Bothell, WA, 98021
*******@*****.***
Key Competencies
Hands on Mechanical Fabrication: demonstrated required skills during junior year project to construct an I-beam made entirely of carbon composite material. Final product surpassed expectations, performing better in three point loading test than steel I-beam, receiving a 4.0 in the class.
Computer Aided Manufacturing: Utilized flatbed cutting system during junior year project to save time, resources, and increase precision.
Computer Aided Design Experience: Completed 3 month CATIA training course during Northrop Grumman internship. Additionally saved time in upper level aeronautics courses by importing AutoCAD drawings into FEMAP software.
Flight and Ground test experience: Competed in extracurricular design, build, fly competition with ground taxi and max weight flight test components.
Instrumentation design and data acquisition: Developed MatLab code for Northrop Grumman, simplifying data acquisition, reduction, and 3D graphing to a one click process. Additionally completed a 6 part lab course senior and junior year which was heavily focused on data acquisition and analysis.
Education
B.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Washington, GPA: 3.4 Five quarter dean’s list recipient
Relevant experience
Intern [Summer 2014]
Northrop Grumman, El Segundo, CA
Quality Assurance Testing: Reported the quality radar absorbent film for newly introduced manufacturing process.
X-47 Navy Drone: Assisted in the design and manufacturing of a prototype waterproof wing for the X-47.
School Projects
Senior Year Project: Developed tailless supersonic business class jet with high performance and stability requirements at subsonic speeds.
Junior Year Project: Designed and constructed carbon composite I-beam which outperformed identical steel I-beam in three point loading test.
Design Build Fly: Competed with 80 other schools in aircraft design competition simulated emergency medical aircraft with both taxi and flight challenge elements.
Other Experience
Customer Service Specialist [June 2015 - Present]
BestBuy, Bellevue, WA
Camp Counselor [August 2010- September 2014]
University of Washington Summer Day Camp, Seattle, WA