Grant Goodall

Mechanical Design Engineer@GreatNeck Tools
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Mechanical Design Engineer at Great Neck Tools, Olin College Grad '24 and Exeter Alum '20; former Tesla (Cybertruck) Battery Engineering Intern. My broad-based technical foundation, insatiable curiosity, hands-on experience, and love of building with strong, empathic communication and collaboration skills, result in bringing ideas to life. Always down for a good puzzle hunt. Highlights: Academic - Completed ME requirements with a 3.87 Cum GPA Industry - Battery engineering intern at Tesla (Cybertruck); Medical device @ Boston Scientific Notable - Building neural net AIs, writing legal case briefs Research - Presented at FIE (Frontiers in Eng Ed) ‘22, Sweden; FIE '23, Texas TAed 5 classes - Mechanics of Solids & Structures; Intro to Circuits; Intermediate Thermo & Transport, Climate Math Fun - Successfully launched pop-up sushi restaurant with others. Enjoy baking, theater and dance. DnD. Select Projects: Drone Swarm Navigation Warehouse Fulfillment System - Develop / Optimize Quad-Copter Multi-Agents Powered Off-Road Chair - Building a battery-powered chair for community partner with impaired mobility, to join friends off-road biking up to 20 mph, with a $500 budget Drone Payload Delivery - Design, fabricate with composites and successfully flight test Active Disturbance Rejection System for Two-Wheel Balancing Robot - design and implement 3D Print Farm Recycling System - Developed closed-loop PLA recycling system for Olin's 3D print farm for sustainability class. Received $15K to implement & document. Reduced PLA purchase by 50%. Applied Fluid Mechanics Project - CAD-designed, built, simulated & tested Pokemon Inkay-shaped Kite Built Thermodynamics Test Rigs - solar-powered heating and data analysis Object Recognition Navigation - on robot Implement Wind Turbine - Explored making a 50 kW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) operational on grid “Hopper” Project - Studied & sketched movement in nature, design & build in SolidWorks with 0.5 sec launch delay Software - Developed facial recognition system; Designed a 5-level physics-based game using Python, Git Select Tools Used: Engineering SW - MatLab Simulink, SolidWorks, SolidWorks Motion, SolidWorks FEA, CATIA Software - Python, Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Illustrator, VS Code, Arduino IDE, Blender Idea Capture - Design sketching, Miro, narrative memos, open coding, FBD (Free Body Diagrams) Research - Atlas.ti, Zotero, NASA/IRC Infared Science Archive, NEOWISE data Fabrication Shop - machine shop, mechanical prototyping, & abrasive tools, Power Tools, Welding (MIG), Electrical, Cutters (plasma, laser, vinyl), 3D printers, Tormach Recognition - Congressional Award Gold Medal, President’s Volunteer Service Award(3X), Eagle Scout.

Work experience

  • Mechanical Design Engineer

    GreatNeck Tools
    2024.09-Current(2 years)
  • Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE)

    Boston Scientific
    2023.09-2024.05(9 months)
  • Student Researcher (co-presented at Oct 2022 conference in Sweden)

    Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    2022.05-2024.05(2 years)
  • Teaching / Course Assistant (TA/CA) - Climate Mathematics (MTH3199)

    Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    2023.08-2023.12(5 months)
  • Battery Engineering Intern

    Tesla
    2023.05-2023.08(4 months)
  • Teaching / Course Assistant (TA/CA) - Intermediate Thermodynamics (ENGR3355)

    Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    2023.01-2023.05(5 months)
  • Teaching / Course Assistant (TA/CA) - Intro to Sensors, Instrumentation & Measurement (ENGR1125)

    Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    2023.01-2023.05(5 months)
  • Teaching / Course Assistant (TA / CA) - Mechanics of Solids & Structures

    Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    2022.08-2022.12(5 months)
  • Olin Pre-Orientation Student Leader (Design Curriculum & Teach Calculus, Physics & Fundamentals)

    Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    2021.05-2021.09(5 months)
  • Berlin Food Sector Market Research and Business Development

    CIEE Global Institute – Berlin
    2019.06-2019.06
  • STEM Instructor & Summer Camp Counselor - Awarded Staff of the Year

    Boy Scouts of America
    2018.06-2018.08(3 months)
  • Neuroscience Seminar Partipant

    Phillips Exeter Academy
    2018.01-2018.05(5 months)

Educational experience

  • Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

    Bachelor's degree, Mechanical / Robotics Engineering, Senior
    2020.01-2024.01(4 years)
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