Thomas Hayes Email & Phone Number

If you were looking for an aspiring mechanical engineer with manufacturing and real world experience, then you have found your candidate. I believe in going beyond school and books to work in the real world, where modern technology and manufacturing processes are employed across a variety of fields.My manufacturing experience stems from my love of working with my hands, and developed significantly in my time at Leupold and Stevens working in a manufacturing engineering role. In school, I have had the opportunity to do a lot of manufacturing and prototyping and have furthered my understanding of maneuverability while developing and manufacturing prototype electrical vehicles for competition out of materials like carbon fiber and titanium. My experience in the outdoors industry is expansive for an engineering student, as I grew up in the outdoors and now have worked in the industry for multiple summers as an engineer and a wildland firefighter. I have been a long time hunter and angler using various outdoor products and I understand the real world use cases and challenges with those products. While fighting fire, I developed an understanding of the extreme use cases for our equipment and the shortcomings of our tools. My time working at Leupold & Stevens, a manufacturer of hunting and tactical riflescopes, has reinforced my passion for the industry and provided me with an engineer’s perspective on manufacturing and developing rugged outdoors products.Outside of my work experience, I am an accomplished student, both in class and in other activities. I am currently the vice president of the OSU chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, where we coordinate various student outreach and involvement activities, and develop prototype electrical vehicles for the Shell Eco-Marathon efficiency competition. Academically, I am a presidential scholarship award recipient, and I graduated high school as a valedictorian at the top of my class.

Listed skills include Solidworks, Cnc Manufacturing, Firefighting, Computer Aided Design, and 8 others.

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  Oregon State University

  Class Of 2021