AO Abdulaziz Al Otaibi
Mechanical Engineering · Penn State

Abdulaziz
Al Otaibi

I design mechanical systems in CAD and prove them on real hardware, from an F1 style body tuned in the wind tunnel to an autonomous robot that parks itself.

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Abdulaziz Al Otaibi Abdulaziz Al Otaibi
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About

I am a Mechanical Engineering student at Penn State University Park, and I help design teams turn a model on a screen into hardware that performs once it is built, without the gap where a clean simulation quietly falls apart in the real part. I design in SolidWorks, then print, wire, and test until the hardware behaves the way the CAD promised.

I am passionate about control systems and vehicle design, and I am known for tuning and debugging real hardware until it works. My coursework runs across design methodology, mechatronics, vibrations, and manufacturing. Recent projects include an F1 style car body we iterated through CFD and wind tunnel testing, an autonomous RedBot I programmed with PID, PD, and finite state machine control, a pendulum tuned mass damper I derived and optimized in MATLAB, and a combined speaker and desk lamp I modeled as a full assembly in SolidWorks.

I am from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and I am on a mission to build machines that hold up in the real world and not only in a report. In my free time I play table tennis competitively and have competed in tournaments, reaching the top 10 table tennis players at Penn State.

SolidWorks MATLAB / Simulink CFD Wind Tunnel Testing 3D Printing Arduino C++ PID / PD Control Finite State Machines IR Sensing Embedded Systems Modal Analysis CAD Assemblies Rapid Prototyping Microsoft Excel
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Projects

ME 340Featured

eF1 Car Body Aerodynamics

An F1 style body for a mini scale car, taken from CAD surfacing to a printed part that we validated in the wind tunnel and timed on track.

201 mph
Wind tunnel airflow
04.55 s
Best three lap run
155.1 mm
Final body, calipered
  • We developed three original body designs beyond the baseline, targeting lower drag and better downforce at sustained speed.
  • We printed each iteration on the Prusa Core One, then tested airflow in the wind tunnel at 201 mph simulated flow.
  • We timed the final body on a 20 m, three lap track for a best run of 04.55 s, and calipered the build to 155.1 mm.
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Concept

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CAD Surfacing

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3D Printing

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Wind Tunnel Test

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Improved Body

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Final Build

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Lap Test

SolidWorksCFDWind Tunnel3D Printing
ME 454Autonomous RedBot

Autonomous RedBot

Embedded control labs on a SparkFun RedBot: wall following and precision stopping built with classical control and a finite state machine in Arduino C++.

  • Wall following with a PD controller and an FSM variant, using IR sensor feedback for closed loop tracking.
  • PID based parking and emergency braking, tuned across hardware units.
  • Debugged motor and sensor behavior systematically until the robot tracked and stopped reliably.
Arduino C++PIDPDFSMIR Sensing
EDSGN 100Speaker desk lamp CAD

Speaker Desk Lamp

A combined bluetooth speaker and desk lamp, modeled as a full assembly in SolidWorks for the Penn State cornerstone design course.

  • Modeled the speaker body, perforated grille pattern, controls, and a gooseneck lamp arm as separate parts.
  • Mated the parts into one assembly, including the lamp attachment and switch.
  • Balanced the acoustic and lighting functions in a single desk sized form.
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Speaker

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Lamp Components

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Integrated Assembly

SolidWorksAssembliesProduct Design
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Education

DEC 2026Expected graduation

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University · University Park

3.92 major GPA. Coursework spanning mechatronics, vibrations, design methodology, product design and manufacturing processes, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.

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Activities

TABLE TENNISPenn State

Competitive Table Tennis

Tournament play · University Park

I play table tennis competitively and have competed in tournaments, reaching the top 10 table tennis players at Penn State.

CAS 100AEffective Speech

Public Speaking

The Pennsylvania State University

Delivered weekly speeches to a live audience of 25 classmates, building structured delivery and audience engagement, including an impromptu assignment with one minute of preparation before speaking.

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Contact

Open to conversations on aerodynamics, mechatronics, and mechanical design. The harder the problem, the better.

EMAILsawatabdulaziz@gmail.com PHONE+966 56 432 7180 BASED INDhahran, Saudi Arabia RESUMEDownload PDF ↓