Hi, I'm Aidan Gould,                                    a Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley

3D voxel based TPS simulation with multigrid solver in C++

Block preconditioning for multiphysics

Agent based disease model

Mesodyne - thermofluids modeling of thermophotovoltaics

Pratt and Whitney - induction heating FEA for jet engine assembly

Hacked Crosswalk Sign

30 mph Chainsaw Longboard

NASA Student Launch with AerospaceNU

Critter Crunch Combat Robots

BEST Robotics

Python for 1D custom thermofluids simulations

Object-oriented programming

Extensive work with Cantera and Numpy packages

C++ for high performance 3D simulation

Parallel computing coursework and applications in research (OMP, MPI, CUDA, UPC++)

Microcontroller for walk sign clock project

Controlled combat robot 

Machined parts on manual lathe and Bridgeport clone for Mesodyne

Made variety of parts NuAerospace, BEST Robotics, combat robot, and chainsaw longboard

Grew up using hand and power tools

Built electrical systems for combat robot and walk sign clock projects

Comfortable with breadboards for prototyping and soldering

Ansys WB Thermal and Structural at Pratt and Whitney

Fluent in CFD class

NX extensively at Pratt and Whitney for part design and integration with Ansys

Solidworks CSWP (April 2019)

Used for NuAreospace and class projects