Mechanical engineering & robotics
Mechanical design, fabrication, and robotics. From CAD to working hardware.
I’m a mechanical engineering student at Embry-Riddle, an undergraduate rover researcher, and the founder of ASME Combat Robotics.
A bigger horizon.
Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University
01 / Selected work
Research, competition,
and hands-on engineering.
I design the rover frame and its mounting interfaces, taking T-slot chassis geometry and component selection from CAD into physical assembly.
Read more about Space Robotics Rover R&D
I founded the program, manage three competition robots, and serve as a team driver. Our work connects mechanical design, fabrication, and testing preparation.
Read more about ASME Combat Robotics
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.
Read more about SkillsUSA Mobile RoboticsMore projects · Fabrication, design & automation
I worked with Nicholas Gatto and Madilyn Magno to fabricate a mobile steel test-box frame in one ten-hour build day. Further enclosure work remains before robot testing.
Read more about the Combat Robotics Test Box
I redesigned my removable cupholder for GCIT’s indoor lifeguard stand. V2 adds a pocket-item shelf, a phone holder, and a reinforced structure after the original mount failed during use.
Read more about Lifeguard Stand Cupholder
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 explore servo calibration and coordinated leg movement, connecting the robot's mechanical setup with the code that drives it.
Read more about Arduino QuadrupedPreparing for Red Bull Flugtag Miami on October 31, 2026, with The Embry Riddlers. I contribute to aircraft fabrication, choreography, and music for our Batman/Riddler-themed entry.
Read more about Red Bull Flugtag The Embry Riddlers02 / About me
I'm studying mechanical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a minor in Robotic Systems.
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, including work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Continued learning Introduction to GitHub (opens in a new tab) Completed GitHub Skills exercise. See GitHub Actions in practice in my event tracker.
03 / Experience
Undergraduate research
Undergraduate Researcher · Embry-Riddle
Own the rover frame design, including chassis modeling, bracket geometry, and bearing selection. Coordinate those interfaces with the lab’s developing mobility system.
Engineering leadership
Vice President · Combat Robotics Founder & Project Lead
I manage the team’s robot projects and competition preparation, serve as a driver, and bring students together through hands-on engineering.
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.
04 / 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 catalog05 / Get in touch
Interested in discussing an internship, a project, or a mechanical design challenge?
rowlykw@my.erau.eduMechanical engineering · Robotics & autonomous systems