1. Michael Townsend
miketown@udel.edu • 484.643.3123
Current Address Permanent Address
345 Buckland Hills Drive Apt. 5211 1311 Richmond Place
Manchester,CT 06042 Downingtown, PA 19335
EDUCATION
University ofDelaware, Newark,DE
 Bachelor ofMechanical Engineering,Summa Cum Laude, May 2016
o Final Cumulative GPA: 3.941
LEADERSHIP / WORK EXPERIENCE
University ofDelaware Department ofMechanical Engineering, Newark,DE 2/2016 to 5/2016
 Fluid Mechanics II (MEEG332) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (assisting Joseph Feser)
 Held office hours and discussion sections to assist students with their homework and studying for the course
 Assisted Dr. Feser with the logistics of the course, communications between the TAs and grading.
University ofDelaware Department ofMechanical Engineering, Newark,DE 9/2015 to 12/2015
 Thermodynamics (MEEG341) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (assisting Heather Doty)
 Held four office hours per week to assist students with their homework and studying for the course
 Assisted Dr. Doty with the logistics of the course and communications between the TAs.
UGI Utilities, Inc., Bethlehem,PA 6/2015 to 8/2015
 Mechanical Engineering Intern
 Gathered information from all 82 Regulator Stations in the Lehigh Area to be used for Relief Calculations
 Created a database of folders for the area which included pictures, excel sheets,and hand sketches for each
station.
 Assisted engineers in using this information to verify the compliance of the Reliefs through calculation.
Senior Design Project with Norwalt Design,Newark,DE 9/2015 to 12/2015
 Project Leader
 Designed and built two redesigns of Norwalt’s high speed beverage cap inhibit system to increase production
speed from 720 PPM to 1200 PPM.
 Presented the project to our sponsor and a panel of engineers and received the ASME Outstanding Senior
Project Presentation Award.
Junior Design Project with Merck & Co.,Newark,DE 2/2015 to 5/2015
 Project Leader
 Developed a solution to an ergonomic problem that Merck & Co. is having with the manual labeling of the
tops of their bead bottles.
 Designed a more automated process to make this job easier and faster for the workers who are currently
tasked to manually label upwards of 1000 bottles/day per worker.
University ofDelaware Center for Composite Materials (CCM),Newark,DE 6/2014 to 4/2015
 Undergraduate Research Assistant (assisted Dr. Bazle G. Haque)
 Developed and wrote FORTRAN code to be used in conjunction with LS-DYNA to model damage on armor
composites using MAT-162 for CORVID Technologies.
 Developed and applied graduate level composites and mechanics of solids theory to create an accurate
working damage model.
ACTIVITES
Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Spring 2015 – Present
Member of Tau Beta PiEngineering Honors Society Spring 2015 – Present
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fall 2013 – Present
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity, Brother Spring 2013 - Present
University of Delaware Blue and Gold Marching Band, Alto/Tenor Saxophone Fall 2012 - Present
University of Delaware Schola Cantorum Newark Community Choir, Tenor I Fall 2012 – Fall 2014
COMPUTER SKILLS
 Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Access)  Python
 MATLAB  FORTRAN
 LS-DYNA  Solidworks