Pedro Dreyer

Last update on November 9, 2014

May 14, 1991

b Rua Camboim, 704

51130-110
B pedrodreyer@hotmail.com
T +55 (81) 86303849

Recife Brazil

Summary
Since a young age I always enjoyed studying science
related subjects. I am also very enthusiastic about using computers, especially to assist tasks that would be
impossible otherwise. It made sense then to try to combine those two interests in my future professional life,
making me choose Mechanical Engineering as my college course. Since then I am very lucky, being able to
combine my two passions in my daily academic life.
In my first year of university I joined a project called
Baja SAE, a student engineering competition, where
its participants design and build a off-rod vehicle during the course of an year. During my three years in
the project I developed a series of key skills as team-

work,problem solving and leadership. in this time, due

to the good results archived by me and my team members, I traveled twice to the United States to represent
Brazil in the international competition.
More recently I spend one year abroad in the UK,
studying at the University of Kent. Hoping to increase
my theoretical background I didnt enrolled in Mechanical Engineering, opting instead to study subjects of other
fields as Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics.
While this decision delayed my graduation in one year,
I judge that the experience attained is going to proven
very valuable in the ever increasing interdisciplinary
engineering job market.

Experience
Seismic Stuff

Canterbury, UK
Summer internship
Jun 14 Aug 14
Compared a series of image processing techniques against most common practices used for one
dimensional data compression.

Research and extra curricular activities

School of Physical Sciences - University of Kent

Canterbury, UK
Research Student
Sep 14 Nov 14
Worked with Dr Barros trying to predict xxx using Mote Carlo analysis. Got some experience in the
analysis of pseudo random number generators.
Physics Department - UFPE
Recife, Brazil
Research Student
Jun 13 Sep 13
Partned up with Dr Gibson further to futher enhance clustering techniques for photographic camera
identification and in the development of a single pixel camera system.
Equipe Mangue Baja
Recife, Brazil
Manufacturing Team
May 09 Mar 10
Worked in the construction of two off-road vehicles. To do so I need to learn a series of manufacturing
techniques as machining (lathe, milling, grinder), welding and bending as well work methodologies as
the 5S scheme.
Project Team
Apr 10 Mar 11
Engaged in the project of the power-train system of the new prototype. Manage to get familiar with a
series of modern design techniques as decision matrices, finite element analysis and FMEA.
Project Manager
Apr 11 Mar 12
Organized a team of 15+ people, dividing tasks and running weekly meetings to access work progress.
Also needed to manage the team finances and contact a series of engineering companies to enquire
sponsorship possibilities.

Education
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering

University of Kent
Gap year under the Science Without Borders study scheme

Grupo Genese de Ensino

Secondary education

Escola Grande Passo

Primary education

Recife, Brazil
2009 Present
Canterbury, UK
2013 2014
Recife, Brazil
2006 2008
Recife, Brazil
1999 2005

Skills
Technical expertise: MATLAB, LATEX, R, Solidworks
Languages: Portuguese (mother tongue), English (fluent).

Interests
Music theory/playing the piano, data visualization, mathematics, computer science