Mechanical Engineer

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A result orientated engineer who invites and embraces challenge. Looking for a position where I can apply my engineering abilities and motivation to improve the lives of others and shift society towards a more sustainable future. EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, UC SANTA BARBARA GRADUATION: JUNE 2020

• Engineering Honors Program (Winter 2017 – Present) • Major GPA: 3.86

• Dean’s Honors List (Winter 2017 – Present) • Tau Beta Pi Member (Fall 2018 – Present) EXPERIENCE

CAPSTONE PROJECT: REHABILITATION SHOE, TEAM LEAD SEPTEMBER 2019 – PRESENT

• Design and build test rigs to simulate six months of walking and scuffing in one week

• Design, test, and manufacture a custom shoe that will allow people suffering from drop foot to walk with a normal gait

• Team lead duties include facilitating assignments for team members, ensuring deadlines and goals are met, creating project timeline, reviewing and approving all designs, communicating and meeting with advisors and manufacturers to discuss shoe prototype designs, organizing and leading team meetings to keep all members up to date on current progress and weekly goals, along with analyzing all testing data in Excel to analyze and optimize current designs ENGINEERING FOR SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM, MUNICH, GERMANY JUNE 2019 – AUGUST 2019

• Studied battery cells for electric vehicle use and energy storage

• Toured BMW battery cell manufacturing plant to learn how they are made and fully integrated into vehicles

• Studied sustainable automotive engineering along with internal combustion engines under BMW engineers

• Built simple hydraulic and pneumatic systems to understand how to efficiently transfer power

• Learned how to communicate and work with foreign engineers in English and German ROCKET PROPULSION LABORATORY, STRUCTURES TEAM MEMBER MARCH 2019 – JULY 2019

• Used finite element analysis in COMSOL and coded simulations in MATLAB to understand in flight forces

• Researched and learned flight dynamics and how composite materials respond to different loads and temperatures

• Designed nose cone and other structural members of the rocket, set to launch in Spring, 2020 SKATEBRAKE, JUNIOR YEAR DESIGN PROJECT APRIL 2019 – JUNE 2019

• Designed and built an automatic skateboard brake which stops the board when the user jumps off

• Learned all stages of product development from concept generation to production

• Experience identifying a problem and using creativity and physics to engineer a simple device to resolve the problem CIVIL ENGINEER INTERN, CITY OF GOLETA NOVEMBER 2018 – MARCH 2019

• Drafted project designs, budgets, schedules, and outside contract engineering agreements

• Became proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint by creating financial spreadsheets and analyzing data trends in Excel, drafting engineering project proposals in Word, and designing presentations for city council in PowerPoint

• Met with civil engineers, construction workers, contracted electrical engineers, and financial advisors on site and in the office to discuss city projects and learned how a cross-functional team of engineers functions ME 10 PROJECT: DANCING ROBOT, TEAM LEAD MARCH 2018 – JUNE 2018

• Led a team of five to design, construct, and program a dancing robot based on a local third grader’s parameters

• Modelled individual components and created full assembly in SolidWorks

• Laser cut all parts, soldered all electrical connections, and programmed the dance routine using Arduino PROFICIENCIES: MATLAB, SolidWorks, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint Currently learning Python

NATHAN

HEIDRICK

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

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