MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (2030) — UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Benjamin
Tran‑Pugh
FOCUS : ROBOTICS / AEROSPACE / AUTOMOTIVE
CAD : SOLIDWORKS · ONSHAPE · INVENTOR · FUSION 360 · AUTOCAD
SIM : FEA (SOLIDWORKS, ANSYS) · CAE · PYTHON / MATLAB MODELS
CODE : PYTHON · C/C++ · MATLAB · ESP32 / ARDUINO
STATUS : MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INTERN AT HUMAN COMPUTER LAB
SELECTED WORK
07 PROJECTS
DOF:4 | IK:FULL | MCU:ESP32 Robot Arm 2.0
A 4-DOF robot arm with full inverse kinematics, browser-based control, and positional memory.
EOM:LAGRANGE | SOLVER:NUMERIC Double Pendulum
Deriving the equations of motion from the Euler–Lagrange equation and simulating chaos in Python.
TYPE:PNEUMATIC | SPEC:10M | ACTUAL:60M+ Air Cannon
A pneumatic launcher on needed for a 10 m target. It hit 60+ m.
TYPE:HIGH-BYPASS | STAGES:LPC/HPC/HPT/LPT Turbofan Engine Model
A 3D-printed high-bypass turbofan replica with hundreds of parts across four compressor and turbine stages.
CONFIG:V6 | RENDER:INVENTOR STUDIO V6 Engine Model
A detailed V6 engine assembly modeled from real engineering drawings in Autodesk Inventor.
DOF:3 | MCU:ARDUINO | ITERATIONS:MANY Robot Arm 1.0
My first robot arm. Built from scratch with no electronics or programming experience and a lot of iteration.
COST:<$50 | MATERIAL:RECLAIMED WOOD Nordic Bench
A Nordic hamstring curl bench built from reclaimed wood for under $50.