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Education
May 2014
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, G.P.A. 3.65
President of Olins Radio Control Club (ORCC) Coursework includes: User-Orientated Collaborative Design; Design Nature; Transport Phenomenon; Thermodynamics; Partial Differential Equations; Material Science June 2011
La Canada High School, La Canada Flintridge, CA National Merit Scholar, G.P.A. 4.33
La Canada Engineering Club Vice President
Experience
Sept 2011 Present Sept 2011 Present Summer 2011
Working with the uThere Ruby autopilot and developing a control interface in LabVIEW Designing, constructing, and testing multiple small aircrafts using the Ruby Developing a custom quadrotor chassis using the Arducopter autopilot
Summer SCOPE Intern, Olin College Singularity Drive: Designed and fabricated a mechanism capable of driving in any direction on a
flat surface with variable speed, without changing RPM or direction of the drive motor Optical Flow: Collected field data for an optical flow object tracking algorithm by manually flying radio controlled airplanes along specific flight paths
Summer 2011
Eight years of experience designing, building, and flying radio controlled aircrafts Designed, constructed, and flew a quadcopter equipped with a mini projector for a team of Harvard graduate students
Eagle Scout
Member of Troop 507, Boy Scouts of America. Built a new facility for the La Canada Engineering Club as part of my Eagle Scout Project.
FIRST Robotics
HS Team FRC President, Driver, Mechanical Captain, and Mentor 2008 Rookie All-Star Award; 2010 Engineering Inspiration Award
Skills
Proficient: SolidWorks, Python, MATLAB, COMSOL; Basic Machine Shop Tools, CNC Mill, MIG Welder; Controlling RC Vehicles Learning: Autodesk Inventor, LabVIEW, LaTeX; Advanced Machine Shop Tools, TIG Welder, CNC Router
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