Curriculum Vitae | Kasper Atkinson - Engineering Portfolio

Education

Cornell University
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
GPA: 4.1/4.0 | Graduation: May, 2027
Edgemont Junior-Senior High School
High School Diploma
GPA: 5.6/5.0 | Graduation: June, 2023

Cornell Design Build Fly:

Propulsion Subteam Lead
- Designed and implemented program to iteratively assess various propulsion and electronic system configurations.
- Led 6-person subteam: delegated, tracked, and supervised tasks in weekly meetings.
- Presented and directed subteam through 3 critical design reviews to justify design and component decisions.
Member of the Propulsion Subteam
- Planned and fabricated the electronics integration piece,justified design in 60-page competition report.
- Helped identify battery and motor specifications for required aircraft speed and payload capacity.
- Led propeller static thrust tests, ensuring the achievement of necessary flight time and maximum force.
Member of the Piloting Subteam
- Aided in test-flight aircraft main fuselage, wing, and electronics assembly.
- Tested aircraft servo, motor, and flight function on runway line in Wichita, Kansas 2024 competition.
C-Salt:
Member of the Mechanical Subteam
- Prepared comprehensive CADs of high-pressure water compressor for U.S. DOE’s Marine Energy Collegiate Contest.
- Analyzed design ramifications for wave-energy converter systems powering ocean-water desalinators in Guam.
- Collaborated with 5-person team to design and fabricate a 1/10th scale prototype of the system.

Comarch - Data Analytics Programming Intern
June, 2024 - July, 2024
- Delivered ML script combining individually weighted and optimized prediction models to forecast server utilization.
- Co-developed program to securely retrieve internal company database metrics live for the Comarch Infraspace Cloud.
- Troubleshooted obstacles to internal LLM implementation with the national Polish AI / ML team.
- Suggested future steps for integrating cloud with larger-variable forecasting models in department-wide presentation.
Cornell Engineering - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
August, 2024 - January, 2025
- Expanded on key physics concepts from lecture twice a week, co-leading 20-person cooperative learning sections.
- Underwent 15-week training session focusing on differential learning, communicative responses, student engagement.