Honours
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Michael Fischbach
Mechanical engineering · Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
I design parts and build the systems that test them. Six years of taking products from a sketch to a finished object: CAD, tolerance analysis, machining, and the measurement that says whether the model was right.
I started a cast-concrete product company in 2019 and still run it. I grew up in an Air Force family and moved nine times across seven states, so relocating for an internship is normal rather than daunting.
3.78
GPA · Honors Program
40+
products to market
1553
tests in production
The collection
Works in Mechanical Engineering
Design, analysis and fabrication: each piece shown with what it was built to do and what it measured.
CNC-Milled Aluminium Putter
A putter head machined from 6061 on a 3-axis HAAS in a single setup, with a cost model behind it. One of eight finalists from over forty.
Chameleon Ramps
A cast-concrete product company founded in 2019: forty designs taken from CAD through mould-making to a shipped product, with the casting process developed in-house.
Wave Energy Converter
A rack-and-pinion generator turning wave oscillation into electrical power, every component machined in-house on a Bridgeport mill.
Autonomous Execution System
A Python system that ingests live data and executes autonomously, with parameters chosen on their worst case across two disjoint validation windows rather than their best.
Campus Native
A production marketplace for student-led campus tours: sixteen data models and payment handling, with double-booking prevented by a database constraint rather than application logic.
Water Distribution System
A gravity-fed distribution network for a rural community in Nicaragua: source survey, tank siting and pipe routing worked out from the terrain rather than from a standard layout.
About
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I am a mechanical engineering student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, in the Honors Program, with a 3.78 GPA and Dean's List in all three quarters of my first year.
What interests me is the loop between a drawing and a measurement: design it, make it, test it, find out where the model was wrong, change it. That applies to a part on a mill and to a system in production, which is why both appear here.
I grew up in an Air Force family and moved nine times across seven states. I am a US citizen and eligible for a German study-related internship residence permit.
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Available for a mechanical engineering internship. Open to relocation.