Mechanical Engineer

Kevin Proudfoot

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-proudfoot-1a969a9a/ Phone: 630-***-**** Email: **********@*.***.*** EDUCATION

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA Expected 2021

B.S. Engineering, Minor in Economics Current Major GPA: 3.66, Current GPA: 3.60 Engman Lab Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering

Dean’s List: Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, (Studied abroad during Spring 2020) RELEVANT COLLEGE COURSEWORK

Engineering Clinic, Engineering Design, Fluid Dynamics, Engineering Mathematics, Experimental Engineering, Advanced Systems Engineering I and II, Electronics Engineering Fundamentals, Materials Engineering, Continuum Mechanics, Digital Electronics and Computer Engineering, Engineering Systems, Thermal Engineering, Principles of Computer Science, Physics Mechanics/E&M, Differential Eqns/Linear Alg II, Multivariable Calculus, Statistics WORK EXPERIENCE

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer 2020

● Validated the mechanics of an experimental design used to test high explosives via hand calculations

Designed new hardware in Creo to address various issues in the design

● Created a written assembly procedure for a design for use by operators

Worked with various vendors to procure necessary hardware to be used in the assembly

● Improved communication and presentation skills through weekly meetings

Invited to present summer work to the Engineering Directorate Researcher at Harvey Mudd College Spring 2018-Present

● Awarded the Engman Lab Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering

Worked on developing a mechanical model that characterizes the viscoelastic properties of the cornea and compared the results to other materials made in the lab

Conducted mechanical testing on corneas and crosslinked collagen

Cesar Orellana*, Kevin Proudfoot*, Nisha Maheshwari*, and Elizabeth Orwin. Characterizing and Comparing Mechanical/Viscoelastic Properties of the Cornea with Electrospun Collagen, manuscript in preparation.

Associate at SMX/Rexnord Aerospace Summer 2018

● Worked in secondary department machining operations on aircraft parts PROJECTS

Improving the Current Nasal Swab for COVID-19 Testing (Sponsored by City of Hope): Aug 2020-Present

● Developing a more reliable and less traumatic nasal swab for COVID-19 testing

● Acquiring knowledge about new product design/testing and large-scale manufacturing Comparison of Sterilization Alternatives for MSR (Sponsored by NASA/JPL): Aug-Dec 2019

● Identified threats and developed neutralization concepts for a sample return mission

● Informed decisions regarding the risks of particular threats by using probabilistic risk assessment in the form of event trees, fault trees, and event sequence diagrams

● Conducted background work necessary to be able to run tests on current sterilization techniques Analog/Digital Filter Design: Nov-Dec 2019

● Produced a single sinusoidal output from a periodic input by building and testing analog/digital filters Autonomous underwater robot: Jan-May 2019

● Accurately determined ocean water depth by building an autonomous underwater robot Paper airplane simulation: May 2019

● Analyzed the flight patterns of different designs of paper airplanes using SolidWorks flow simulations SKILLS

Programs: Matlab, Solidworks, Creo, ANSYS, MathCAD, COMSOL Multiphysics, Arduino, Excel, R studio Programming languages: C, Java, Python, Racket

Machine Shop Projects: Hammer, Screwdriver, Ocarina Other: Embedded Systems, SystemVerilog, Quartus Prime, Model Sim, Finite element analysis, Computational fluid dynamics, Fourier analysis, Microsoft Office, Oscilloscope VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE 2017-2020

● Participated in weekly read & play with underprivileged elementary school kids

● Raise money yearly and participate in Soul Cycle event to help the fight against rare cancers CMS VARSITY MEN’S SOCCER Aug 2017-Present

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Varsity College Soccer Team Captain and Leadership Group member 2018 and 2019 SCIAC Regular Season Champions, 2018 CMS Most Improved player, 2018 CMS Most Diligent 2019 NCAA Sweet 16 Participant, SCIAC All Academic Athlete (x3)

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