Experience

Newcastle Racing

• United Kingdom
• Automotive
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Part of Newcastle University’s Formula Student Team. Individual Project Undertaken: Designed & optimised the chassis of the NR16, Newcastle Racing's latest Formula Student car, manufactured and intended to be used in the 2024 Formula Student event ran by the IMechE. The project's scope included design, material selection and torsional stiffness / stress analysis with the key focus being the optimisation of the chassis' mass and torsional rigidity while adhering to the rules. Other important areas of focus included the chassis being designed with intent to be manufactured within budget and integrated seamlessly with all other components designed in parallel by other team members. Currently, myself and the Newcastle Racing team are building the car as part of our MEng group project in readiness for the 2024 event. We are very excited to work closely with our sponsors throughout the year and compete at Silverstone with Newcastle Racing's latest fully-electric race car. Acknowledgements: Mechanical Supervisors: Prof Jari Pallari, Dr Chuan Cheng Electrical Supervisors: Dr Simon Lambert, Dr Shafiq Odhano Technicians: Andy McLeman, Shay Naylor, Matthew Hetherington Show less



Newcastle University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Ambassador

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Ambassador for Newcastle University, School of Engineering and Newcastle Racing. Experience includes open / offer holder days, campus tours, presentations, demonstrative lab sessions and F1 in Schools judging. Ambassador for Newcastle University, School of Engineering and Newcastle Racing. Experience includes open / offer holder days, campus tours, presentations, demonstrative lab sessions and F1 in Schools judging.



PDL Group

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

  In the summer of 2023 I returned to PDL Solutions to advance my engineering analytic skills, building on previous experience with the company and third year at university. This time round, I am dealing with more complex analyses and communicating with clients about ongoing projects. For 4-weeks, my focus was on fracture mechanics in which I assessed the benefits of using SMART software within ANSYS to model crack propagation. After initial research and modelling, the software was incorporated into an ongoing project in which a subsea valve's lifetime is being assessed. For the remainder of the internship, I am working with Oliver Valvtech, assessing the sealing performance of two ball valves which they are considering manufacturing. Both are unlike other valves they have manufactured, one is of a large bore size and the other operates under high pressure. I have worked on this project from its beginning, authoring the analysis plan and carrying out the analyses. Currently this project is ongoing and we are post processing results obtained from analyses carried out. Supervisors: Peter Ward, Thomas Johnson, David Udell. Show less

• Engineering Intern

  • Aug 2022 - Sep 2022

  PDL Solutions are experts in engineering analysis and is where, over an 8-week summer internship, I first gained knowledge of performing such analyses. Having no previous knowledge of such engineering software, there was an extremely steep learning curve over 2-weeks, but over the internship, resulted in 3 analyses being completed which performed on components and systems included in Cummins Emission Solutions’ diesel after treatment system. Detailed notes of the analyses performed are attached but are briefly described below. All assessments carried out were rotating bending moment analyses, using ANSYS and fe-safe software to calculate the fatigue life of welds within the models. All 3 assessments were variations on analyses previously performed by PDL for Cummins and involved simplifying the new geometry, applying an appropriate mesh, setting up each analysis and comparing the results to those obtained previously. Weld quality was checked in ANSYS PrepPost with the mesh being adjusted accordingly before the model was imported into fe-safe for fatigue analysis. This internship was an extremely valuable opportunity to learn the foundations of using engineering analysis software and experience the benefits of using such software in real-world engineering projects. Supervisors: David Udell, Matthew Dent. Show less


MyTutor.co.uk
• United Kingdom
• E-Learning Providers
• 700 & Above Employee
• Personal Tutor

  • Sep 2020 - Jun 2022