Dallas Blank

Recent Electrical Engineering graduate, excels at rapidly integrating into new projects and contributing to ongoing efforts. Quickly adapts to novel skills, production realities and techniques. Passionate about expanding aptitudes to help employers diversify available skills and drive new customer growth. Organized and motivated employee eager to apply time management and organizational skills in various environments. Seeking entry-level opportunities to expand skills while facilitating company growth.

Participant, Arkansas Summer Research Institute, Bryant, Arkansas, 06/2022:

• The Arkansas Summer Research Institute (ASRI) is an intensive professional development event hosted by Arkansas NSF EPSCoR & DART in collaboration with the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, & the Arts (ASMSA).
• Conducted a self-lead research project focusing upon correlation research between material properties and solar efficiency in relation of use in solar cells
• Utilized python and given data to create a program capable of inputting material data and establishing a specific relationship between OPT Bandgaps and Solar Efficiency for variability

Engineering Intern, Whiting Systems, Alexander, Arkansas, 08/2019-07/2020:

• Completed a one-year program focused upon electrical engineering workloads from schematic design/creation to hands on control board construction.
• Worked to Research and Develop specialized control panel for a customer, with its own unique specifications and problem scenario including: Custom rain test mode, complete wiring overhaul, union between old and new communication networks, and a dynamic valve layout.
• Work involved many projects, including researching processes for building control panels, creating schematics for various products/special control panels, and wiring the control panels

• Graduated with Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering May 2024, Completed 1/2 of Masters in Electrical Engineering courses covering Control Systems, Power Switch Mode Conversion, Integrated Circuit Design Intro and Lab
• Recipient of Wittmer Family Endowed Scholarship for Electrical Engineering in 2021
• Recipient of Linda & Cliff Eason Telecommunications Scholarship in 2022
• Recipient of William Bush Endowed Scholarship in ELEG in 2022
• Recipient of Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship in 2020
• Recipient of Chancellors Community Scholarship in 2020

Senior Design Capstone - ESD Latch Up Testbench

• Researched, Designed, and Constructed a PCB implementing discrete components of an Inverter Integrated Circuit for student demonstration of Latch up damage due to electrostatic discharge events
• Notable features: USB Power, Programmable Microcontroller (controlling testing modes), on-board data retrieval, ESD Damage Protection