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Peter Burke
3320 Crutchfield Place, Charlotte, NC 28213 ● pburke10@uncc.edu ● (203) 722-6678
Objective:
Pursuing a post-graduation career opportunity in the mechanical engineering industry
Education:
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduation: May 2016
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Concentration: Motorsports
GPA: 3.0
Relevant Coursework:
Machining Processes - Manufacturing System Processes - Technical Writing - Mechanics of Solids - Mechanics of Materials -
Basic Electrical Engineering - Engineering Thermodynamics I & II – Instrumentation – Heat Transfer – Fluid Dynamics –
Thermal Fluid Design – Machine Analysis and Design - Automotive Power Plants – Statistical Process Control & Metrology -
Tire Mechanics
Computer Skills:
PTC Creo , PTC Pro-E, Solidworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Project,
Mathematica, Labview, Abaqus
Projects:
Brown & Miller Racing Modular Midget Car Chassis Fall 2015 – Spring 2016
● Part of a team responsible for redesigning the current standards for midget car chassis to not only make them safer,
but modular for easier replacement of damaged frame pieces (i.e. front and rear clips)
● Project consists of modeling as well as fabricating an entirely new chassis with a budget of $3000
Forklift Robot Spring 2015
● Was part of a team that was responsible for designing and building a robot capable of carrying a load through an
obstacle course with a budget of $200
● Design criteria were to carry a 1.5 lb load through a slalom course and up a 30 degree incline, then deposit the load
and retrieve another 1.5 lb load and carry it back through the course
Relevant Activities:
Officer, Charlotte Motorists Club August 2012 – May
2014
Vice President, Charlotte Motorists Club May 2014 - January 2015
President, Charlotte Motorists Club January 2015 - Present
Work Experience:
Art Teacher June 2008 - August 2013
Georgetown School of the Arts, Georgetown, CT
● Transformed complex artistic ideas into elegant, easy to grasp concepts children can understand
● Managed a classroom of up to 20 children from the ages of 5 to 12
● Created and organized new projects for the school
Field Technician August 2014 – December 2014
Storm Technologies, Inc. May 2015 – August 2015
● Performed testing and tuning on various systems in coal-fired power plants across the US
● Wrote engineering analyses of test data and suggestions for improvement on critical power plant systems for
customers
● Designed a wind tunnel for probe calibration and testing in Solidworks