Work

Projects

Aerospace design and CAD alongside production hardware, automation, and machining. The common thread is carrying engineering past the model — building it, testing it, and finding out what actually happens.

FANUC R-1000iA/100F robot and Yama Seiki BM-1600MAX vertical machining center in the automated track shoe cell.

Automation · Controls

FANUC Robot & VMC Automated Manufacturing Cell

Programmed and helped set up an automated cell in which a FANUC R-1000iA/100F six-axis robot moves track shoes between material racks and a Yama Seiki BM-1600MAX machining center. Included TP programming and RoboGuide simulation across four part sizes, PLC ladder logic and safety interlocks, custom end-of-arm tooling, and a 3D-printed mount for a vision-based clamping check.

FANUC TP
RoboGuide
PLC ladder logic
Sensors & I/O
CAD / CAM
Machine vision

Front-quarter Siemens NX render of the B-36 Peacemaker model above a cloud layer.

Aerospace · CAD

B-36 Peacemaker — Siemens NX Aircraft Model

A high-fidelity parametric recreation of the Convair B-36 built in Siemens NX, with constrained assemblies, moving mechanisms, major aircraft systems, rendered views, and an engineering animation.

Siemens NX
Large assemblies
Mechanisms
Animation

The fabricated hand-launched glider prototype seen head-on, showing the full triangular planform and the centre vertical fin.

Aerospace · Design-build-test

Hand-Launched Glider — Design, Fabrication & Flight Testing

Led a team through designing a glider from scratch, fabricating the prototype, and refining its stability through iterative testing — reaching a measured 179 ft flight over 6.35 seconds from a ground-level launch.

Team lead
CAD
Fabrication
Flight testing

CAD · Mechanical design

Pipe-Cleaning Agitation Machine

Built a full-scale CAD model of a large industrial cleaning machine entirely from hand measurements taken off the equipment, with no drawings to work from.

CAD
Hand measurement
Assemblies

Physical furnace conveyor roller and chain system used as the basis for the CAD/CAM replacement work.

Manufacturing · CAD / CAM

Furnace Conveyor Belt System

Modeled a furnace conveyor and its components from existing hardware, produced the CAM to machine them, built custom vise jaws to hold awkward parts, and assembled physical conveyor segments.

CAD assemblies
CAM
CNC machining
Workholding

$Broken furnace component beside its newly machined replacement, with the fractured flange pieces in front.$

Manufacturing · Reverse engineering

Furnace Replacement Component

A heat-treatment furnace component broke with no drawings available. I measured the damaged part, rebuilt its geometry in CAD, and supported manufacture of a machined replacement.

Hand measurement
CAD
Machining

CAD · Mechanical design

Paint Robot Nozzle Holder

A robotic paint gun used on track idlers drifted off its intended position over time. I designed a rigid holder to keep the nozzle steady and holding its aim.

CAD
Design for rigidity

Further work

Other projects

Work without a full write-up yet. Media and detail to follow.

Model rocket: Designed and iterated a model rocket in OpenRocket, simulating flight performance against a 325 ft target altitude and validating the design with a live flight test that reached approximately 360 ft.
Liquid Rocketry at Illinois: Engine subgroup — engine design discussions and propulsion subsystem analysis.

Also on the floor

Additional hands-on experience

Smaller work from the Metamora Industries internship. Not headline engineering, but it is where a lot of the practical knowledge came from.

Vehicle maintenance: Replaced and troubleshot backup cameras, replaced speakers, repaired windshield washer fluid systems, replaced batteries
Plant infrastructure: Ran Ethernet cabling through assembly-line areas and connected production-monitoring cameras
Facility support: Scrapped and recycled barrels from blast-machine operations; cleaned and organized steel yards and material storage; general shop support
Office work: Data entry, file organization, and maintaining company records and documents