Mechanical engineering & robotics
I turn my curiosity about how things work into hands-on engineering.
I'm a mechanical engineering student at Embry-Riddle and the founder and project lead of ASME Combat Robotics. My goal is a career in off-world robotics.
A bigger horizon.
Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University
01 / Selected work
Competition, experimentation,
and the work in between.
I'm building a collegiate robotics team while developing the mechanical designs, selecting components, and planning the testing practices needed for competitive robots.
Design studies
I helped restart my high school's robotics program and competed as part of a two-person team. I served as team captain in 2024.
Follow Anthony Wolk and me through our robotics competition journey.
Road to nationals (YouTube, opens in a new tab) National robotics competition (YouTube, opens in a new tab)In this project, I explore servo calibration and coordinated leg movement, connecting the robot's mechanical setup with the code that drives it.
Read more about Arduino Quadruped
I built a Python system that monitors competition websites and posts new event information to our team’s Discord channel.
Read more about Combat Robotics Event Tracker
I designed and printed a removable cupholder for GCIT’s indoor lifeguard stand, then learned from its performance and a mounting failure during use.
Read more about Lifeguard Stand Cupholder02 / About me
I'm studying mechanical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the Robotics & Autonomous Systems track.
I enjoy the point where a design becomes something physical: modeling a part, figuring out how to make it, and learning what needs to change.
I received the ERAU Presidential Scholarship and earned a place on the College of Engineering Dean's List in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and Fall 2025.
My long-term goal is to contribute to planetary rovers and other off-world robotic systems. I hope to pursue that work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
03 / Coursework
Mechanical design, manufacturing,
and the systems that make robots work.
This course covers robot sensing, localization, active ranging, computer vision, and approaches to autonomous behavior.
ERAU catalogThis course covers developing and debugging complex robotic systems using a framework built around the Robot Operating System (ROS).
ERAU catalogThis course covers the analysis of machine components, including material properties, stress, deformation, and failure under static and fatigue loading.
ERAU catalogThis course covers analyzing electrical networks with circuit laws, nodal and mesh methods, transient analysis, AC phasors, and introductory filter concepts.
ERAU catalogThis course covers using differential equations, Laplace transforms, series methods, linear algebra, and matrices to model problems in engineering and physics.
ERAU catalogThis course covers connecting component design to fabrication through CAD/CAM, CNC machining, welding, and mechanical assembly and disassembly.
ERAU catalogThis course covers creating 3D parts, assemblies, sketches, and technical drawings, with attention to dimensioning, tolerances, and standard drawing conventions.
ERAU catalogThis course covers stress and deformation under tension, torsion, bending, and combined loading, as well as pressure vessels and column stability.
ERAU catalogThis course covers relating forces to the motion of particles and rigid bodies using kinematics, energy, power, impulse, and momentum.
ERAU catalogThis course covers solving equilibrium problems in structures and mechanical systems, including trusses, frames, beam loads, centroids, and moments of inertia.
ERAU catalogThis course covers studying energy conversion, heat and work, fluid properties, entropy, and thermodynamic cycles through the first and second laws.
ERAU catalogThis course covers building engineering problem-solving programs with algorithms, functions, arrays, loops, decisions, and file input and output.
ERAU catalogThis course covers applying limits, derivatives, and integrals to describe change and solve problems involving algebraic and elementary transcendental functions.
ERAU catalogThis course covers extending integration methods and working with transcendental functions, power series, and applications of definite integrals.
ERAU catalogThis course covers working with three-dimensional geometry, vector functions, partial derivatives, gradients, and multiple integrals.
ERAU catalogThis course covers exploring engineering design across disciplines through team-based projects.
ERAU catalogThis course covers using calculus to analyze motion, forces, energy, momentum, torque, and rotation.
ERAU catalogThis course covers studying rotation, oscillations, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and optics through calculus-based models.
ERAU catalogThis course explores electromagnetism, electric fields, and circuits.
ERAU catalogThis laboratory develops measurement and error-analysis skills through experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, and optics.
ERAU catalogThis course covers communicating technical information clearly through written, oral, visual, and digital formats. My academic record lists this course as Technical Report Writing.
ERAU catalogThis course introduces psychology through topics such as sensation, perception, learning, motivation, memory, and personality.
ERAU catalogThis course explores works connected by shared themes and their roles in the development of cultures. The themes vary by instructor.
ERAU catalog04 / Experience
Engineering leadership
Vice President · Combat Robotics Founder & Project Lead
I bring students together through hands-on engineering and help build the foundation for the combat robotics program.
Competition · 2022–2024
Mobile Robotics Technology · Team Captain, 2024
As part of a two-person team, I earned three consecutive state championships and a fourth-place national finish in 2024.
Campus leadership · 2026
Resident Advisor
I support residents, organize community programs, enforce housing policies, and help resolve conflicts. Clear communication and documentation are central to this role.
05 / Get in touch
Interested in discussing an internship, a project, or a mechanical design challenge?
rowlykw@my.erau.eduConnect on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Download résumé (PDF)Mechanical engineering · Robotics & autonomous systems