email: Smpiedmonte@gmail.com
Phone: 540-229-1373
An Engineer fresh out of school with a passion
to solve problems with creative solutions.
Recent Graduate from Pennsylvania State University, graduating early with a BS in mechanical engineering, along with a minor in engineering leadership development. Currently in a masters program at Purdue studying Mechanical Engineering with a focus in robotics and solid Mechanics. Employed in Connecticut at General Dynamics Electric Boat as an engineer II in weapons and mechanical systems.
This plane was created to demonstrate a controller for the company BECHAMO, assembled with all 3D printed parts. This planes design was from Flightory and features elevators and a V tail configuration. It was assembled using foaming light weight PLA, carbon fiber tubes and simple motors and servos to move the surfaces. It will fly! This was a proof of concept to prove we could 3D print an entire aircraft and is the first iteration of many.
The second iteration design for a force vectoring motor rotation system using mechanisms and 3D printed parts. This Iteration removed the need for GT2 Pullies and increased the size of the motor rather than gaining torque from a gear train. It also added another degree of freedom for the motor allowing 180 degrees forward and aft, and 30 degrees port and starboard. It also featured a failure pin on one end of the motor to reduce the chance of damage if the plane was to crash.
After graduation, I couldn't fathom leaving my most interesting project unfinished. With only 14 weeks, we were only tasked with the mechanical assembly, but I wanted to prove to myself that I could get the whole system working, specifically the electrical and software aspects. I took on the challenge of building one myself, using my 3D printer, six stepper motors, drivers, an Arduino, and a RAMPS 3D printer board. I successfully brought all six axes to life and even added a gripper on the sixth axis.
This is the first iteration design for a motor rotation system using simple mechanisms 3D printed parts. Using GT2 pullies, timing belts and bearings the system now has an additional degree of freedom on each motor.
Our team of five was tasked to create 6 degree of freedom arms and to get as much information as we could for the next group to continue the project. As the only mechanical engineer in our group I was the lead on the project and in charge of building these robots. I 3D printed over 100 different components and assembled them with stepper motors, bearings, gears, pullies, and many other miscellaneous parts. These were built to demonstrate the complexity of engineering to younger students and my favorite project I've done so far.
This project, for the company BECHAMO, is a physical model designed in SolidWorks. This plane describes the moving rudders, ailerons and elevators on the tail and wings. It was designed to hold a servo and an actuator servo in modular pieces (white) which are housed in the plane itself. These servos move the flaps accordingly. The plane also holds all of the required microcontrollers and batteries in the main body to completely function as if the plane was flyable.
Our class was tasked with starting buisnesses and competing for who could profit the most in 3 weeks. Using my skills in engineering, I designed and created nearly 25 neon signs, souldering the wires and using cyanoacrylate glue to meld the LED silicone strips to acryilic sheets. This allowed me to place first in the class with over $2000 net profit.
As a team of 4, we were given the task of coming up with a protoype that solved a problem relating to the environment. We were only allowed to use garbage. We designed a magnet that attached to the end of nautral gas bus' exhausts. This collected particulate metal that exits the pipe. We won first place among the class.
As a team of 5 we were tasked with a semester-long project to create a solution to the problem of runway excursions. These are defined as weather related issues and obstruction in runways or loss of friction. We wrote a 36 page report, designing a physical runway with 3D printed pop up heaters that dried runways. We placed second overall among Penn State students.
As a team of 4, we were given the task of coming up with a prototype that solved a problem relating to the environment. We were only allowed to use garbage. We designed a magnet that attached to the end of natural gas bus’s exhausts. This collected particulate metal that exits the pipe. We won first place among the class.
I was tasked with making an object from a TV show in solidworks to prove the skill I had learned throught the semester in solidworks. This is the 'plumbis' from the popular TV show Rick and Morty.
