Caleb Fronk

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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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Timeline
About me
Structures Engineer at Pratt & Whitney
Education
- Penn State University
  2019 - 2023
  Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering Summa Cum Laude
- Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School
  2015 - 2019
- Schreyer Honors College at Penn State
  2021 - 2023
Experience
- UPS
  May 2020 - Aug 2020
  Package Handler
  Warehouse associate/package handler. - Loaded trucks at Carlisle Hub. - Assisted supervisors with teaching new hires and other leadership tasks.
- Penn State Campus Recreation
  Nov 2020 - May 2021
  Facility Attendant
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center
  May 2021 - Aug 2021
  Mechanical Engineering Intern
  - Troubleshooted, repaired, and tested systems and equipment on U.S. Naval Vessels. - Worked on various auxiliary equipment such as heat exchangers, valves, condensers, reverse osmosis units, fire pumps, lube oil purifiers, fuel oil pumps, and evaporators.
- Basak Lab at Penn State
  Aug 2021 - May 2023
  Undergraduate Researcher
  - Focused on using strain gauges to correlate and study local and global tensile deformation of additively manufactured AlSi10Mg specimens produced via laser powder bed fusion.- Completed undergraduate honors thesis on subject for the Schreyer Honors College - Presented poster at TMS 2023 Conference (Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society)
- Penn State Formula Racing
  Aug 2021 - Jun 2023
  Chassis and Composites Project Manager
  - Designed and manufactured PSFR's first fully carbon fiber monocoque. - Conducted and facilitated mechanical tests (3 Pt-bend, shear punch, lap joint) to derive strength and stiffness properties of composite sandwich panels- Completed structural equivalency spreadsheet (SES) to prove monocoque meets FSAE competition rules and safety requirements
- Pratt & Whitney
  May 2022 - Aug 2022
  HCF Core Structures Engineering Intern
  EDSI Core Structures - High Cycle Fatigue (HCF) Validation- Supported department and mod centers in the reduction and analysis of airfoil vibration data for validation of high-cycle fatigue requirements. - Assisted in the proposal and update to an automated signal quality identification method. - Researched methods of improving existing signal processing software for more streamlined validation.
- Pratt & Whitney
  Aug 2023 - now
  - Materials Engineer II - Applied Mechanics Vibrations Lab
    Jan 2025 - now
  - Engineer I - High Cycle Fatigue Core Structures
    Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Licenses & Certifications
- SOLIDWORKS Associate in Mechanical Design (CSWA)
  Dassault Systèmes
  Feb 2022
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Caleb Fronk
  Evan Pugh Scholar Senior Award - Mar 2022
- Awarded to Caleb Fronk
  Aero Pioneers Scholarship - 2020
- Awarded to Caleb Fronk
  Dean's List Penn State University 2020
- Awarded to Caleb Fronk
  Eagle Scout - May 2019
- Awarded to Caleb Fronk
  ME Shuman Scholar -
- Awarded to Caleb Fronk
  Summa Cum Laude -