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Computers and Electronics
I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering student with a 4.0 GPA and years of industry experience in PCB (PWB) layout, CCA design/build/test, and embedded systems. I have gained experience in software, electronics, and electrical circuits since high school through my work with nonprofits, my own business, NASA, Ultra Electronics USSI, Raytheon, and Harris.

Experience

Electrical/Electronic and Computer Engineering Year-round Intern
Ultra Electronics USSI - Fort Wayne, Indiana (March 2018 to present)
  • Design, simulation, fabrication, assembly, and testing of electronic designs.
  • Design, develop, implement, and test embedded software.
  • Responsible for adding a daughter board to the controller board of an HS-10 to enable wireless streaming, and for updating the software to enable streaming via Bluetooth. 
  • Developed schematics and generated Gerber files for PCB fabrication.
  • Peer reviewed schematic and board layout. Revised schematics and ran board level design rule checks (DRC). Worked with team to select and order parts for a new design project.
  • Tested circuits to ensure finished product met requirements.

Electrical/Electronic and Computer Engineering Intern
Raytheon - Fort Wayne, Indiana (May 2018 - August 2018)
Part of team developing dynamic software for an autonomous collaborative system that will use artificial neural networks to enable UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to work together to accomplish tasks and utilize the unique strength of each UAV. Wrote over 1700 lines of code.

Electrical/Electronic and Computer Engineering Intern
NASA - Langley, Virginia (2017)
Design, simulation, fabrication, assembly, and testing of electronic designs
  • Designed a mission-critical circuit board that will be used on a lander.
  • Evaluated design architectures for a DC-DC buck converter for Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL).
  • Created designs for highly efficient power and that fit within a minimal area.
  • Designed circuits; developed component models with Altium; ran LTSpice simulations.
  • Additional projects involved analysis, Webench simulation (SPICE - based simulator), Cadence, and correcting an existing buck regulator design.

Electrical/Computer Engineering Extern
Ultra Electronics - Columbia City, IN (2016)
Worked with designer to develop new schematics.  Generated Gerber files for PCB fabrication.  Peer reviewed schematic and board layout.  Revised schematics and ran board level design rule checks (DRC).  Identified replacement part candidates for obsolete parts in a design.  Participated in project planning meeting to ensure schedule would meet customer requirements.  Worked with team to select and order parts for a new design project.  Helped with the development of a Java GUI for sonar buoys that allowed end users to retrieve critical data without accessing proprietary buoy software.  Tested circuitry of buoy and debugged failure (cold solder joint), then repaired.  Assembled buoys and tested mechanical and electrical circuits to ensure finished product met requirements.

Electrical/Computer Engineering Extern
Harris Corp - Fort Wayne, IN (2015)
Worked in class 10 clean room to photo document the electrical and mechanical configuration of a radiometric sphere being used as a prototype for a new radiation calibration instrument. Participated in a requirements review. Learned about rapid development electrical engineering approach that leverages COTs (Commercial Off the Shelf) components and software. 

Skills​​
  • PCB / PWB
  • CCA
  • Cadence
  • AutoCAD
  • Eagle CAD
  • ​Altium
  • PADS
  • DxDesigner
  • LT SPICE
  • VHDL
  • Verilog
  • VLSI
  • FPGA
  • CMOS
  • PLC
  • ARM
  • UART​
  • ​Embedded systems
  • C
  • C++
  • Python
  • ​Perl
  • Java
  • HTML
  • ​Matlab
  • Linux​
  • ​Scrum
  • Agile 
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • ​Artificial Neural Networks
  • Microsoft Office Suite​
  • SketchUp Pro
  • Canon CHDK
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements

Lean Six Sigma
Certified Yellow Belt (click here for certificate)
Using Lean / Six Sigma principles at work and in volunteer activities.

Projects
  • Designed and built a full-size, fully functional R2-D2 astromech droid, including the circuit boards (see my blog to track my progress as I add more functionality)
  • Designed and built a particle accelerator and a supercomputer (Beowulf cluster) to run the particle accelerator
  • Designed worldspaces for Valve and Bethesda games
  • Assembled my own 3-D printer 
  • Designed and built my own desktop computer
  • Built several electronic devices in my spare time


EE Events and Additional Engineering Classes 

  • Power, Circuits and Strategies
        Purdue and Indiana Michigan Power
       Winner: Best Design and Implementation of Electrical Circuits
        (Challenge: In one hour, design and build two circuits meeting certain requirements, provide schematics for those      
        circuits, plus create schematics for five additional circuits, then accurately measure the voltage drop and the amperage
        for the circuits. I was the sole person who met all the requirements and had the correct answers.)

  • Battle of the Bots
       Purdue  
       Winner: 2nd Place Overall
        (Use VEX and EV3 parts/software for robot design. Work in teams to test the robots in a series or tasks.)

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Challenge
         Indiana Tech
       Top Student Overall
       (Within 4 6-hour days, build an AM radio, assemble an LED oscillator that plays a siren, create an electronic Simon 
       Says game, program an Arduino Uno, build a robotic mouse with optical sensor, make a thermometer 
       that displays the temperature and runs a fan once a certain temperature is reached.)

  • Raspberry Pi Challenge
       Purdue and IEEE Region 4
       (Programming in Python and Scrap; Familiarity with Linux.)

  • Microsoft Imagine Cup Team
       (Designed a plug-in text-to-speech program)

  • Electrical Circuits
  • Electronics Circuit Analysis
  • Programming (Arduino)
  • Matlab
  • Robotics
  • Computer Programming I, II, III (Python, Java, C++)
  • Computer Hardware Design
  • Programming for Engineers (C)
  • VHDL
  • Verilog
  • VLSI
  • Electronic Components (FPGA, PLC, ARM, CMOS, and more)
  • Perl​
  • Engineering Study Abroad (Germany)

Leadership and Memberships
  •  Society of Women Engineers
  •  IEEE; Vice President (2018-19)
  •  Association for Computing Machinery; Vice President (2018-19)
  •  Math Club; President (2018-19)
  • ​ Student Executive Board; Chair (2018-19)
  •  Fort Wayne Engineers
  •  Engineers without Borders
  •  Society of Satellite Professionals International
  •  Astromech R2-D2 Builders Club
  •  Midwest R2 Builders Club
  •  Arduino Users Club
  • ​ SAE


Visit my Blog, filled with all of my latest projects, here.  Or watch me discuss some of my projects, here.
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