Matthew Rach

Summer Intern – Mishawaka, Indiana                                         May-August 2019

• Designed and assembled conveying systems for use in the agricultural industry
• Collaborated on a team working towards developing assistivetechnology
• Researched and developed a system used to monitor stresses on mechanical systems and relay these to a main database

Residential Assistant – West Lafayette, Indiana                      August 2019-Present

• Cultivated a living and learning community on my floor
• Prepared for weekly status reports
• Represented the university as a first point of contact to incoming students
• Wrote official documentation on incidents that occurred in my community

Learning Tool Development, Purdue University

• Designed an engineering education curriculum for students in Tumaini
• 3D printed a model for use in the curriculum, specifically a model toy car
• Directed a formal video detailing advantages of the product

Quality Assurance Analysis, Purdue University

• Developed MATLAB code to identify parameters of monotonic systems
• Provided accurate error analysis of 100 time histories of thermocouple designs
• Analyzed the relationship between cost and performance of each thermocouple

Prosthetic Foot, Purdue University

• Modeled and created a prosthetic foot
• Implemented a static and kinetic testing protocol
• Formally presented the final product