Bradley Ashcraft Email & Phone Number

I am a mechanical engineering graduate of Brigham Young University Idaho. I am passionately driven by challenging problems in feedback control, automation and mechatronics in general. Currently I work as a Robotic Systems Engineer at House of Design RoboticsMy former experience is described below:Feedback Control:Used state space to simulate full state feedback control of an inverted pendulum robot in MATLABDesigned and implemented a full state feedback controller with two PID loops on an Allen-Bradley PLC to command and stabilize a Ball and plate mechanism.Designed an HMI and feedback controller for a ventilation system where each vent uses an independent PID loop to control airflowSensors and Microcontrollers:Used a wind tunnel to calibrate a pitot-static probe for a miniature airplaneDesigned a microcontroller based sensor array to record state data from the flight of a miniature airplane.Designed printed circuit boards to integrate a microcontroller and various sensorsProgramming:Mentored students as they learned basic programming structures and concepts in Excel/VBAUsed MATLAB to create a flight simulator for a small flying wing aircraft using a Kalman filter for state estimation Used Python to optimize several complex engineering problems including a cattle ranch well pump systemHeavily employed C++ to program embedded systems in several projectsArtificial IntelligenceUsed decision trees to determine which customers a bank should call to maximize the effectiveness of a campaign. Implemented convolutional neural networks to classify images of street signs into more than 30 different classes with over 98% accuracyUsed recurrent neural networks to generate full chapters based in the style of classic authorsLeadership:Mentored dozens of students as they learned programming over the course of a semesterEffectively taught and organized dozens of volunteers to assist in cleaning a 15,000 seat auditorium weeklyOrganized the payload section of a weather balloon team while solving problems like temperature control of sensitive payloadsLed a sales team to increase department revenue by over 50% year over year, several months in a row.

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  Brigham Young University - Idaho

  Mechanical Engineering