User:Ixvandensteen

I am an undergraduate student in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo (class of 2028).

I am interested in additive manufacturing, robotics, automation in manufacturing, 3D printing, materials, mechanical design, electromechanical design.

Electrical sub team member - Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (December 2023 - present)

• Designed PCBs using Altium Designer

Dynamics Member - Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Design Team Member (September 2023 - present)

• Designed jigs using SolidWorks to assemble parts of the car

Marble Slab - Junior Scooper (August 2021 - September 2022)

• Retail service
• Customer service
• Cleaning
• Handled inventory and organized products

Junior Instructor - Western Engineering Outreach (January 2021 - June 2021)

• Developed workshop curriculum for summer programs
• Led lessons and activities for other outreach programs

2x2 Rubik’s Cube Solver

• Designed a robot which used a rotating base plate to hold and rotate the cube, and an arm which could flip the cube or hold it in place to turn the cube.
• Used a Depth-First-Search algorithm in a C based language (ROBOTC) to find the optimal solution to a randomly scrambled Rubik’s Cube, then implemented the solution using the previously mentioned robot to solve the cube.

Jig Design - Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team

• Used SolidWorks to design a jig to aid in welding the lower control arm
• Used parts and assembly to create a jig which is easy to make and construct

SolidWorks, AutoCAD, PCB Soldering, C++, Java, Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

Mechatronics engineering

• Gained experience in SolidWorks and AutoCAD

Digital Computation

• Gained a foundation in C++, hardware and software organization,
• Programmed robots and gained knowledge about various inputs and outputs

Current

• Structures and properties of materials
• Circuits
• Algorithms and Data Structures