B.S. Mechanical Engineering
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
| Aerospace
| Automotive
| Robotics
Welcome!
I am a recent graduate of Northeastern University, where I’ve spent the last 5 years completing a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
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I’m most passionate about exploring new places. It’s for this reason that I took 6 months off from school to work on the SpaceX Falcon family of launch vehicles, love reading about deep-submergence vehicles and the history of Antarctic expeditions, and seek out mountain summit hikes in my free time. My career goal is to develop technologies at the nexus of aerodynamics, propulsion, electric vehicles, and robotics that enable humankind to further its exploration of the universe, and each of us to explore a little bit more of our home planet.
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I use this website to highlight some of my past work. Projects I’ve completed for previous employers are described only at a high level to maintain confidentiality.
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Please reach out to me at groen.p@northeastern.edu or through my LinkedIn profile for employment questions.
Work Experience
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Falcon Reusability Engineering Co-op
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Hawthorne, CA | Cape Canaveral, FL
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Electronic Systems/Autopilot Product Design Co-op
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Palo Alto, CA | Fremont, CA | Sparks, NV
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Sensors and Imaging Systems Co-op
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Cambridge, MA
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Projects
Skills
SOLIDWORKS
1000+ hours
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Certified Solidworks Professional (CSWP). Extensive use history includes modeling of aeronautical navigation tools and LIDAR sensors at Draper, rover subsystems for the Northeastern Mars Rover student team, haptic interfaces at the Northeastern Robotics Collaborative, and various other school and personal projects. Fluent in master modeling, surface design, and sheet metal modeling techniques. Comfortable with revision control in both professional PLM softwares and free file management softwares like GrabCad.
Product Design and Modeling
ANSYS Mechanical
500+ hours
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Background in finite element solver theory (primarily based on A First Course in the Finite Element Method, Daryl L. Logan) and extensive use of ANSYS Mechanical for practical structural analyses at Draper and SpaceX.
Structural Analysis
Additive Manufacturing
100+ hours
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Made heavy use of 3D printing for prototyping across internships and research projects. At SpaceX and Northeastern Robotics Collaborative, operated and troubleshooted printers from multiple manufacturers and using different filaments myself.
Prototyping and Manufacturing
MATLAB
100+ hours
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Use Matlab for general purpose data processing on school and work projects, as well as analyzing PID controllers.
Programming and Data Analysis
Textbook Summaries
I realized in college that textbooks have to be pretty good in order to get published, but professors can be underwhelming instructors and still be professors. So I read a lot of textbooks. I learn well when I can see everything in one place, so I've made summary handbooks for a handful of standard mechanical engineering texts for my own use. They're a little shorthand, but engineering friends have found them useful in the past, so I'll share a few of them here.
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics - John D. Anderson
Intro to Robotics - Mechanics and Control - John J. Craig
Dynamic Systems - Modeling, Simulation, and Control - Craig A. Kluever
Outdoor Photos
I like to get out of the city to somewhere quiet when I can. Some of the better pictures my iPhone 6 has managed.
Dyrhólaey Peninsula, Iceland