Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas
University of California, Irvine '27
Ph.D, Material Science & Engineering
University of California, Irvine '23
Bachelors of Science, Aerospace Engineering
I am an active leader and scrappy learner with experience in nearly all fields of engineering. Wether its building the cutting edge of transportation, researching novel materials for use in extreme conditions, or pushing what's possible on a warehouse floor I strive to put my diverse skillset and determined personality to work in an impactful way.
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HyperXite 8
Hyperxite.com - Innovating the future of travel, Lead Propulsion Engineer
Throughout the 2022-2023 academic school year, I worked on HyperXite 8’s Linear Induction Motors as the lead Propulsion Engineer. to compete at the European Hyperloop Week International Design Competition.
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ASME Website: asmeuci.com
American Society of Mechanical Engineers at UCI - Putting our best foot forward (digitally)
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers at UCI (ASME) is a club that is dedicated towards advancing and enriching the experience of all engineers at the University of California, Irvine. In order to reduce the friction with onboarding new members and increase the outreach of the club, I took it upon myself to revamp the website as ASME’s 2022-2023 webmaster. You can visit the ASME @ UC Irvine website here.
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Human Powered Vehicle Project
From an idea at a meeting, to an officially recognized project, as Project Manager running this 28 person team has been a blast
During March of 2022 I founded the Human Powered Vehicle Competition (HPVC) project at UC Irvine and acted as its project manager for the 2022-2023 development cycle. HPVC is an undergraduate engineering team working with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at UCI (ASME@UCI) and officially endorsed by the UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering. I started this project because I wanted to give undergraduate engineers a chance to learn technical skills with a recognized hands on project.
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers @ UCI
3 roles in one! From panelist, to Project Manager, to Webmaster
I first joined ASME@UCI in order to get more experience in leading groups of engineers and I never could have imagined it would turn out as it did. I’ve met some of the greatest people I know through working with the club, I’ve taught in front of hundreds of people with SolidWorks tutorials, and so much more.
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Steam Controller Synth
Turning Valve’s Steam Controller into a fully functional Synth, compatible with MIDI files and input devices with full polyphony
Continuing off of Pila’s work, steamControllerSynth expands and enables the playback of MIDI data from both MIDI files and live playback from input devices. Instead of being limited to one voice per channel, and two total channels, this script implements a dynamically allocating queue in order to fully saturate all haptic motors connected to the computer enabling full polyphony for every MIDI channel, limited only by the amount of Steam Controllers avaiable.
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HyperXite VII
Hyperxite.com - Innovating the future of travel, Braking Engineer
Throughout the 2021-2022 academic school year, I worked on HyperXite VII’s braking subsystem as an Braking Engineer to compete at the European Hyperloop Week International Design Competition.
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BMES Make-A-Thon: Gait Monitor
An open-source gait monitoring solution as a collaboration between the Biomedical Engineering Society @ UCI and the Children’s Hospital of Orange County
In order to expand my engineering breadth further than my major field of story, I joined the Biomedical Engineering Society and closely worked with them to design an open source gait monitoring solution.
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Website Portfolio
An opportunity to learn web development and show off my projects all at once
While I did not need to code a website in order to create a portfolio, it had been years since I had last touched HTML and CSS. I then took this opportunity to brush up my skills while simultaneously creating a space online where I can share and host my projects.
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ENGITank Sea Life Revival Project
Saving California’s coastline, one buoy at a time
Sea Life Revival Project was a design submission for Engineering Student Council’s ENGITank design competition. Through this 10 week design competition, 8 teams race to engineer a product that addresses a modern day issue and compete for a cash prize.
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linearWinVolume
A Python implementation of pycaw that doesn’t function on a decibel scale
In order to linearly interface with Windows’ volume control in a manner that matches the UI’s output, linearWinVolume computes a logarithmic regression from user collected sample data points. From there it optionally applies a linear correction value such that when setting and getting the volume state it is accurate to rougly ~1 unit of Windows volume at all times.
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HyperXite VI
Hyperxite.com - Innovating the future of travel, Embedded Systems Engineer
Throughout the 2020-2021 academic school year, I served on HyperXite VI’s controls subsystem as an Embedded Systems Engineer to compete at the European Hyperloop Week International Design Competition.
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