Daniel Benedict Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Led team of 150+ students to design, test, and race America’s #1 solar car.- Oversaw $2M+ budget and all aspects of strategic development and operations including team recruitment, resource allocation, and project management.-Led race crew of 18 students working 100+ hour weeks for 3 months, placed 1st in 2024 American Solar Challenge

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Supervised 28 students to design and program circuit boards to handle the battery management, telemetry, driver interface, etc. for the vehicle.- Managed all embedded systems projects, timelines, and biweekly meetings for the design cycle.- Taught members electrical concepts, circuit and embedded systems design, and schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium Designer.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Managed members of the Development Committee to accomplish design cycle setup work, concept development, and other general engineering work.- Led a team of 20 engineers to produce an energy budget providing ranges for all energy losses in a given concept to aid concept selection.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Designed, assembled, and tested electronic devices for the University of Michigan's solar car. Worked with schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium Designer.- Designed a Temperature Analysis PCB used to gather data from large arrays of thermistors in order to further characterize the team’s vehicle. Features human interface components to allow for quick debugging and data analysis. - Guided new members with training projects teaching basics of Altium Designer and PCB schematic design.

Sunnyvale, California, United States

- Produced CPLD combinational logic designs to consolidate power management circuitry on Amazon and Ring devices reducing cost by up to 125% and space utilization by 73%.- Integrated 3 CPLDs with existing devices to debug and validate models leading to fully functional demos.- Updated PCB schematics using Allegro to include CPLDs and accompanying passives.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Planned and constructed schematic design and routing on a 4-layer PCB for solar powered monitoring system using Altium Designer featuring power management and wireless communication.- Utilized C to write and test firmware to process data taken from radiation sensor to write onto micro SD card.- Built and executed test plans to validate board behavior using an oscilloscope, multimeter, power supply, etc.

- Began a business development company offering website development services as well as legal services for small to large scale companies.

Bachelor'S In Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Solar Car project team, Intramural Tennis, Intramural Soccer, Intramural Football

Engineering, 4.0/4.0

Took Calculus III during the winter semester of high school senior year.