Shane Spangler

Tackling various mechanical engineering projects from R&D to prototyping on small modular nuclear reactors.

Participating in Cohort 6 of the Climatebase Fellowship, the climate career accelerator.

• Managed the design and development of 15+ vacuum-formed and CNC-machined plastic assemblies weekly, ensuring manufacturability, delivering projects four days early on average. • Led three internal and external design reviews every month assessing product function, usability, and durability accounting for manufacturing methods, material limitations, and cost, reducing redesign time by 30%. • Designed and optimized new drop-in table and cabinet solutions for boats and RVs, integrating material selection and structural analysis to enhance durability while reducing costs by 23%. • Reverse-engineered 100+ decorative and functional assemblies using 3D scanning and precision measurement tools to create high- accuracy CAD models in SolidWorks, delivering seamless drop-in solutions for customers.

• Fully designed, tested, analyzed, and manufactured a carbon fiber composite chassis after implementing new analysis and testing techniques resulting in the safest chassis the team has made for 10+ years while being on-par with weight. • Surface modeled a practical and desirable car body concept with SolidWorks, ANSYS Fluent, and Altair Hypermesh CFD with a CD of 0.12 and CDA of 0.21 in only 45 revisions when the previous vehicle took 100+ revisions to get to this point. • Developed and analyzed a four-bar door hinge mechanism with Creo and ANSYS resulting in the most operable door the team has ever made by eliminating sag. Manufactured components with a waterjet, manual mill, and CNC 3 axis mill. • Led carbon fiber and fiberglass composite layups from mold creation to performing layups on molds from 1 meter to 5 meters long. • Designed and manufactured ducts and headlights with 3D scanning and thermoforming processes such as 3D printing and vacuum forming resulting in sufficiently bright lights and keeping the batteries cool. • Advised and collaborated with 10+ team members while coordinating with 5 corporate sponsors resulting in the team saving $20,000 or 7% of the budget. • Competed in the World Solar Challenge in Australia with the team taking 2nd place for the first time in the team’s history, also resulting in the team receiving the inaugural Eberle-Selwood Championship Arrow Cup.

● Presented students with constructive feedback on machinability and practicality of designs. ● Guided and instructed students about safe and effective use of the mill, lathe, and waterjet with no injuries taking place. ● Ensured proper maintenance of machines and upheld clean, catalogued workshop environment.

● Recruited, trained, managed, and motivated a personal student team for summer direct sales program ● Conducted all prospecting, recruiting, interviewing, and selecting of students ● Coordinated weekly training of sales force on the field in the summer ● Attended over 200 hours of advanced sales and management training

● Independent contractor in direct sales of educational products. ● Prospected and approached over 4500 families from various socioeconomic backgrounds. ● Established success principles (schedule, discipline, goal setting, personal motivation). ● Executed all ordering, inventory, sales, accounting, scheduling, presentation, and delivery of product. ● Personal Retail Sales of over $20,200 in 12 weeks (‘21) and 30,400 in 12 weeks (‘22) ● Relocated to Batavia, NY (‘21), and Bowling Green, KY (‘22)

In the XYZ Lab, I helped art students create their projects using the lab's laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNC router. I advised them on how to best make their files so they could be manufacturable, and taught them how to use the software as well. I also managed the inventory, and created a C++ program that calculated the cost of the machines along with tax in order to avoid charging the student incorrectly.

I worked at docks on wheels in my summer between my high school graduation and my freshman year of college. There I began installing the wooden decks of the docks where I exercised my woodworking skills. Partway through, I noticed we were short on welders so I stepped in as another welder so we could get the docks done faster. For the rest of the summer, my position was as a welder where I used a MIG welder to manufacture straight and square docks to the customer's specifications, as well as checking over my colleague's work. Two weeks after I had started as a welder, my boss gave me a raise for my work ethic, as the shop was always more productive when I was present. On occasion, I helped install the docks which required me to drive a backhoe, secure a 50' long dock to a trailer and haul it on the highway, and operate a boat.

As a marina attendant, I helped hotel guests use the water the various hand-powered and motorized water equipment. I ensured the safety of the guests and equipment, and kept up the maintenance of the boats as well. The guests often commented to the front desk about the excellent customer service that I provided.

As an equipment manager, I greeted customers and showed them how to use the canoes, equipment, and food for their trip into the Boundary Waters. I also would clean, sort, and pack the equipment that the customers brought into the wilderness, as well as cleaned the cabins they stayed in. During my time there, I also took on the role of managing the other employees, their daily tasks, and schedule as I was the most mature one there even though I was the youngest. I also connected really well with some of the employees there and we spent some time together outside of work.