nicholas cardwell

r and d student-motorcycle group

About

I am currently a Mechanical Engineering student that is looking to gain experience while I am going to school. I have roughly 24 months total of experience in the engineering field from previous internships.

Country

united states

City

king george

Industry

defense & space

Skill

cad, mechanical engineering, nx 8.5, solidworks, machining, arc welding, matlab, mig welding, finite element analysis, autodesk software, testing, labview, microsoft office, oxy acetylene, plasma cutting, technical drawing, ptc pro/engineer, engineering, abaqus

Experience

service engineering intern

volvo group trucks technology

2014-5 - 2014-8 · 4 mos

Wrote service methods and complete time trials of replacing parts of vehicles I also participated in Competitor Vehicle Analysis of trucks to compare the service times for certain features and compared them to Volvo's service times for comparable parts.

r and d student-motorcycle group

virginia tech

2015-6 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

I am a data analyst processing naturalistic data from motorcycle tests. I worked on creating a code that will find vibration noise in accelerometer signals and find which participants have the worst noise.

engineering aide and intern

kratos defense and security solutions

2012-6 - Present · 14 yrs 4 mos

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS) is a specialized National Security Technology business providing mission critical products, services and solutions for United States National Security priorities. Kratos' core capabilities are sophisticated engineering, manufacturing and system integration offerings for National Security platforms and programs. Areas of expertise include C5ISR, satellite communication systems, electronic warfare, unmanned systems, missile defense, cyber warfare, cybersecurity, information assurance and critical infrastructure security. Kratos has primarily an engineering and technically-oriented work force of approximately 3,900.