Arturo Ramirez

Responsible and motivated student ready to apply education in the workplace. Offers excellent technical abilities with software and applications, ability to handle challenging work, and excellent time management skills.

• Mens Rugby Club meets every week, Monday through Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm for team practice. On Saturdays, the team makes a group effort for setting up the home field to host a match against another competitive school. Other times, the team will take a bus to another school for an away match. The club expects commitment, hard work, and dedication from every member so the club can rise in the D1A rankings and continue to grow in competitiveness.

• Statics/CAD/Fabrication

Constructed a motorized bike powered by gas. Reprocessing a chainsaw engine from a junkyard, the goal was to design a mechanism that would supply a traditional bicycle with power from a two stroke engine. Constraints for the project included; making the mechanism universal for bikes, non destructive to the structural integrity of the bike, and allowing the bicycle to be pedaled whether the engine was on or off. Conceptualizing the design took time analyzing several different bikes and examining the chain-wheel hub system. Next, an early design was made using a truss system and simple analysis using statics to verify its feasibility. The design was finalized with an assembly cad rendering in solidworks to serve as a guide for fabrication. Using the Cal Poly workshop and scraps of metal, a prototype was completed and tested on a bike frame but was not successful in functioning consistently.