Megan Reid
Tallahassee,FL
Summary
As a recent graduate in Mechanical Engineering with 3 years of work experience, I am hoping to become a more professional engineer and learn about private contracting. I have worked in research, design, testing, and analysis, solo and in team projects, and I believe I will be an incredible asset to your team.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Design Project
NASA-MSFC
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Utilized systems engineering approach in designing a test fixture and process to create a lunar surface environment for water ice extraction
- Determined that the water content in regolith can be retained while at high vacuum and cryogenic temperatures
- Assembled test fixture, calibrated temperature and pressure sensors, ran preliminary tests, and wrote basic LabVIEW for data visualization
- Used Matlab to plot time-dependent and contour plots of temperature and pressure
- Won overall presentation award in FAMU-FSU's College of Engineering.
Florida Center for Advanced Aeropropulsion (Undergraduate Intern)
01.2024 - 04.2024
- Used Solidworks to add bolt holes to an supersonic elliptical nozzle for enhanced mechanical strength in wind tunnel testing
- Proofread a 300 page doctoral dissertation on dual impinging jets
- Shadowed graduate students setting up wind tunnel experiments
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Research Assistant)
09.2021 - 12.2023
- Performed critical current tests on superconducting tapes in Liquid Nitrogen to validate expected data from vendor
- Designed superconducting BSCCO crossover joint and tested in 31.2 Tesla background field
- Analyzed data in Matlab and Excel; observed that increasing the number of tapes greatly decreased resistance
- Managed incoming inventory for large scale test coil project
Maglab REU Program (Undergraduate Intern)
06.2022 - 08.2022
- Used Autodesk Inventor to design test fixture parts for CORC cable flexible lead
- Tested CORC cable up to 50k cycles in MTS machine in Liquid Nitrogen; discovered failure point after 10k cycles
- Won second place overall award for 3 Minute Thesis Presentation at end of the program
Maglab REU Program (Undergraduate Intern)
06.2021 - 08.2021
- Designed and performed test to look at movement in a fiber optic displacement sensor in Liquid Nitrogen
- Determined that the fiber optic sensors displayed fluctuations outside of expected coil movement
- Set up and calibrated fiber optic sensors on test coil for research in 40T project development
- Ran macro programs in Excel to reduce hundreds of thousands of data points to formulate time-dependent graphs
- Won first place engineering award for 3 Minute Thesis Presentation at end of the program
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering -
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL05-2024
Dual enrolled, High school -
Tallahassee Community College
Skills
- Matlab
- Creo
- Autodesk Inventor
- SolidWorks
- NI-DAQ
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- LabVIEW
- Project Management
- Materials Purchasing
- Systems Engineering
- Instrumentation and Installation
- Hand tools and power tools
Certification
Extra license in Amateur Radio, 06/2019 - Present
Timeline
Florida Center for Advanced Aeropropulsion (Undergraduate Intern)
01.2024 - 04.2024
Senior Design Project
NASA-MSFC
08.2023 - 05.2024
Maglab REU Program (Undergraduate Intern)
06.2022 - 08.2022
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Research Assistant)
09.2021 - 12.2023
Maglab REU Program (Undergraduate Intern)
06.2021 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering -
Florida State University
Dual enrolled, High school -
Tallahassee Community College