About me
I am a recent graduate from Elizabethtown College with a degree in Engineering. I hope to be moving into the workforce this summer. Some of my interests include Asian history, Chinese language, sustainability, energy, transportation, and material fabrication.
Over the past four years I have had a lot of great experiences. The latest was an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. It proved to be an excellent opportunity to see a R&D style graduate program. My duties included the implementation of limit gages on a multi-million dollar imagining system, creating LABview code, and designing and then preforming experiments for the imagining system.
I spent five weeks in Beijing (and a few days Shanghai) during the Summer of 2007. While there I studied at the International University of Business and Economics in Beijing, one course about the economics of developing countries and the other about Asian History. Quite an incredible experience.
Later in 2007 I gained an internship at Hershey's industrial engineering department. During that internship I designed and developed an Access database that allowed engineers to easily input data and generate quarterly reports instantly.
My most recent engineering projects:
Solar Boat Project with Zego, eCycle, and Club FEAST - Future Energies And Sustainable Technologies (FEAST) is a 3rd year club currently focused on solar-powered boating. We have forged partnerships with Zego Sports Boats and eCycle Motors to design and construct the most commercially viable solar boat ever. My key role as project leader has been to obtain material donations, in which I have lead in acquiring over $14,000 worth. Secondly, I was lead author of this year's technical report, which can be downloaded here.
Cardboard Furniture - I designed a human-only powered system that will cut recycled cardboard sheets into a chair-shaped profile, stack them, and bind them together creating a sturdy chairs. The completed project can be seen here.
Senior Project: Personal Transportation Unit - Fellow senior Dan Lappin and I are designing a small vehicle for our joint senior project. The Design Paper here.
I built this website as a useful way to track my academic and industrial career. If you have any thoughts, comments, or questions email me at JustinHyp@gmail.com.
Thanks for visiting,
Justin Hypnarowski