Sam Orta, Eit Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Designed water and wastewater infrastructure networks throughout Arizona, and several other states on a variety of projects: Including well sites, treatment plants, and conveyance infrastructure in Civil 3D and Bluebeam• Conducted condition assessments and studies on municipal sewer networks and treatment plant piping to determine structural and operational condition. Recommended repairs and replacements as necessary.• Completed calculations for design projects in multiple disciplines of civil and environmental engineering, such as structural loading for pipelines, predicting storm intensities, and chemical dosing of water systems• Interacted with clients at municipalities to keep them informed of progress and to ensure that project progress and deliverables were up to their expectations.

Ann Arbor

• Iterated on a Non-Thermal Plasma reactor to improve the sterilization of airborne viruses using cold plasma by 1 log reduction to accomplish a target of 99% inactivation• Quantified how environmental factors affect the spread of influenza by utilizing chemical mass spectrometry, 2 surrogate viruses, and by field work public spaces over 6 months for ambient conditions• Documented schematic design and of laboratory apparatus of BSL2 experiments for replication at other universities

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Taught under 4 professors in: “MATSCI 293: Making Things: Three Million Years of Materials and Cultures”, “CEE 265: Sustainable Engineering Principles”, and “CEE 230: Thermodynamics”• Led office hours, discussion, and review sessions to support underclassmen education in all three courses• Presented weekly in flipped classrooms to review lectures on key sustainability and technical topics such as environmental impact assessments and remediation

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Managed manufacturing timeline of 1000+ in-house and outsourced parts of a 30-person student designed and built off-road vehicle racing team that competes against teams across the country• Developed relations with 19 sponsors, including Ford and General Motors, for parts requiring professional machinists such as gear manufacturing, heat treating, or chemical anodizing• Completed engineering design and QC of 3DP parts, carbon fiber, and other exotic materials to increase reliability, ease of manufacturing, and sustainability

Ann Arbor

• Co-Led the sub-team that designs and builds the carbon fiber plates to cover the car on the best Baja team in the country• Worked on the CAD model and used Finite Element Analysis to improve the aerodynamics of the composite structure• Maintained sponsor relations with General Motors who create half of the molds for the composite team• Machined parts using a metal mill and lathe. Multiple parts manufactured had tolerances of 1/1000th of an inch

Ann Arbor

Part of the Michigan Baja team, an off-road vehicle competition hosted between colleges. Michigan consistently has the best team in the country. I operated a metal mill, lathe, and router. Multiple parts I manufactured had tolerances of 1/1000th of an inch. I also worked alongside older team members to stress test the car, design new parts and iterate the entire car.

Emeryville, California, United States

Wrote python and Matlab routines to analyze numerical data related to the 2 Artemis probes and other probes near the moon while also completing data collection on the metadata• Ran testing programs and calibration on 4 new sensors in a state-of-the-art clean room• Converted decades of raw data into informative graphics and tables for data management and use in the company

Ann Arbor

Analyzed and sorted over 100,000 files in eight languages covering Jewish stories in the United States for a professor using R. I worked on this project during COVID-19 remotely and developed my own library sorting system. Turned in the project on time with the entire library ready.

Ann Arbor

Conducted 3D modeling of Jewish Cities from the 2nd and 3rd century AD in modern-day Israel and Palestine. I sort through archaeological data. primary sources, and academic articles for details about city boundaries and buildings. I then model the cities using various CAD software and analyze socio-political relationships in the time period.

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Engineering, 3.59

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Researcher

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Engineering, 3.48

Activities and Societies: Baja Racing Design Team

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Speech and Debate, Robotics, Boy Scouts