Nathan Jerome Email & Phone Number

• Improved design of prosthetic hand using SolidWorks; made functional improvements to most components including palm, thumb, fingers and internal mechanism within the palm
• Designed and prototyped an innovative 5-segment finger design using NinjaFlex, a type of 3D-printing filament that is flexible and holds its shape – improves grip, reduces assembly time by about 20 minutes
• Designed and prototyped a thumb in which the proximal phalanx and metacarpal rotated in different directions –… Show more
• Designed and prototyped a thumb in which the proximal phalanx and metacarpal rotated in different directions – significantly more human-like than previous design Show less

University Of Florida

• Designed and built a liquid nitrogen droplet-generating system and measured the evaporation rate of LN2 droplets, leader of 3 other graduate and undergraduate students – briefed project and results to NASA, earned a 4x.
• Worked with PhD student to build a small-scale rig for an experiment involving rapid cryogenic chill-down of a pipe and measuring temperature distribution – data was vital to the success of large-scale testing
• Undergraduate… Show more
• Undergraduate crew member of NASA-sponsored Zero-G flights in Orlando, FL – helped run experiments in Zero-G environment and with general maintenance of the test setup Show less

Niceville, FL

Worked with a senior software developer to learn C and other relevant computer programming languages

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.67 Gpa

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering