Me and my wonderful mom
Hi! My name is Max, I am a recently graduated mechanical engineer looking for my first official job experience! I have a deep life long passion for all things engineering, particularly in: aerodynamic design, mechanical assembly design, and well as machining. I have some electrical/ control systems experience and would like to learn more about it. I have some future projects planned pertaining to fast response time hydraulic control systems, so further experience in this area is something I am looking for as well as anything mechanical assembly or aero related. I am proficient in software and code as pertains to mechanical engineering, and can code anything necessary for mechanical design. I usually just use it for preliminary design choices and napkin math rather than doing it on pen and paper, but would love to try some more advanced projects and active use of code in control systems.
I also love tinkering! I get a lot of joy from disassembling, repairing, and upgrading anything I can, including but not limited to pretty much every part on a car, every toy I got or made as a kid, bikes, small electric vehicles, small gas vehicles, motorcycles, and computers. Generally speaking if something needs fixing and I have access to google and the appropriate sized wrench (and spare m10 sockets) I can probably get it done (eventually).
I made this website to have a convenient place to upload things about the projects I work on. My main project at the moment is my “Kart” (A F1000 style race car with a hybrid drivetrain, hopefully road legal ;)), so much of the site will be about that for now. I plan to upload future projects here as well, and potentially improve the look of the site (though that is less a priority for me than making more fast car parts).
In general, I would say my biggest strength as an engineer is the ability to learn new things quickly and independently, and my biggest weakness is that I get bored easily.
Here is a quick list of everything I am proficient in as pertains to engineering work if you are a hiring manager 🙂 Everything is in order of most experienced to least. If it’s on here I would consider myself at least capable of doing whatever is required in it. These software and skills are all kind of infinite rabbit holes, so I would never say I know everything about any of them. I know how to learn the things I don’t know and I know how to get around. For those at the top of the lists I would consider myself deeply experienced.
Engineering Specific Software
- SolidWorks
- MatLab / Simulink
- ANSYS FEA
- ANSYS Fluent CFD
- QuickSurface (3D scan interpolation and reverse engineering from STL to parametric)
- Fusion360 CAM
- FreeCAD
- Fusion360 CAD
Programming Languages
- Matlab
- Python
- VBA (Mostly for cobbling together Solidworks macros)
- IronPy (Similar to VBA level of experience but for ANSYS data import and export from external programs or sensor data)
Machining and Fabrication
- All hand tools
- Almost all metalworking / cutting tools (industrial or handheld)
- Manual mill (all operations)
- Manual lathe (most operations)
- Welding (TIG, MIG, flux-core, and stick)
- FDM 3D printing
- 3 axis CNC milling (most operations)
- 2 axis CNC cutting (laser, plasma, and waterjet)
- Cold forming (extensive hands on experience with most manual industrial machines)
- Hot forging (same experience as cold forming + some dye forging and artisinal work)
- Resin 3D printing
- SLDM 3D printing
Measurement, QC, and Reverse Engineering
- All standard measurement tools
- Micrometers
- All dial gauges (runout, bore/concentricity, surface ect, machine alignment ect.)
- Laser 3D scanning
- Infrared 3D scanning
- Feeler gauges
- Go/No-Go gauges
- Stereoscopic 3D scanning
- Hardness testing (file, HRC, HRB)
- Impact testing (Charpy)