Engineering Engineer

Allyse Birken

Santa Barbara, CA • 805-***-**** • ************@*****.***

EDUCATION

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA B.S. in Materials Engineering (2021) ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

Cal Poly Racing, Formula SAE Fall 2017- Present

President 2020-2021

● Leads Formula and Baja SAE teams at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

● Manages 100% of supplier and partner database - materials and funding

● Organizes club related business items and outreach events Lead Materials Specialist 2019-2020

● Assisted design engineers with component material selection

● Characterized materials to determine materials properties

● Manufactured full carbon ber monocoque

Battery Systems Packaging Lead 2018-2019

● Packaged battery structure and larger external electronics inside electric car

● Utilized Solidworks to design enclosures for printed circuit boards

● Manufactured full carbon ber battery enclosure

Virgin Galactic

Avionics Mechanical Intern Summer 2019

● Designed ground support equipment used to gather pre/post space ight system diagnostics

● Observed and participated in mission control training

● Composed and manufactured ground support harness Avionics Instrumentation Intern Summer 2020

● Redesigned cockpit instrumentation interface panel for Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship II

● Performed mechanical and electrical design for power distribution box

● Wrote a guide discussing materials used in typical electronic components Avionics Software and Test Engineer Contractor Sept 2020- Dec 2020

● Quali ed critical components for testing and ight

● Performed high level analysis on spaceship components speci cations AndyMark

Mechanical Engineering Intern Summer 2018

● Designed and manufactured parts for all FIRST competition robots

● Helped assemble stair climbing robot used by the police

● Represented the company at o site events

ENGINEERING RELATED SKILLS

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Senior Project, Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA 2020-2021

● Studying the heat treatment response to additively manufactured (DED) JBK-75 and NASA HR-1

● Additive Manufacturing

● Carbon ber layups:

Prepreg, wet layup, and resin infusion

● CES Software - Materials Selection

● Computer-Aided Design – Solidworks & CATIA

● MATLAB

● Mechanical testing and heat treatment

● Mill, lathe, hand, and power tools

● MiniTab

● Visio - Harness & Schematic design

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