Jessie Russell
Role: Team Leader
Mechanical Engineering Major
Email Address: jr2877@nau.edu
Jessie's LinkedIn | Jessie's Resume
Jessie is a mechanical engineering major at Northern Arizona University. She runs meetings, schedules timelines for the team, and contributes to the Arduino programming in addition to collective team contributions. She enjoys working with Red Feather to make a significant contribution to their community through engineering. Her interests are in design, hands-on engineering, the energy industry, and the biomedical and healthcare industry. Her primary focus is to make an impact in whatever field she works. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, playing video games, strategy games, and guitar.
Wesley Garcia
Role: Client Contact
Mechanical Engineering Major
Email Address: wag43@nau.edu
Wesley's LinkedIn | Wesley's Resume
Wesley is a senior at Northern Arizona University studying Mechanical Engineering. He is responsible for team communication with clients and mentors along with actively participating in the development of the design and creation of the capstone team's device for Red Feather. He is pursuing Engineering with the goal of being part of transforming the world through technology. Wesley enjoys design, analysis, watching movies, and hiking. He also has experience using software such as Solid Works, Matlab, and Excel.
Randall Holgate
Role: Budget Liaison
Mechanical Engineering Major
Email Address: rjh328@nau.edu
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Randall Is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at Northern Arizona University. Randall is the budget liaison for the Red Feather capstone team. He handles the purchase request of the Bill of Materials and keeps records of purchased parts for the team’s design. Randall’s work for this project is helping with the heat exchangers and Arduino programming. Randall plans to apply his degree in the energy industry and design engineering. In his free time Randall enjoys the outdoors, learning new software programs, troubleshooting vehicles, exercising, and reading.
Brittney Rogers
Role: Documents Manager
Mechanical Engineering Major
Email Address: bar366@nau.edu
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Brittney is a senior studying mechanical engineering at Northern Arizona University. She handles keeping all the documents organized and she helps with the development and design for the device for Red Feather, specifically helping on the solar and heat exchanger parts of the design. She is pursuing mechanical engineering in order to work in the renewable energy and conserving energy field. She has been an intern for an energy consulting company for the past 3 years and hopes to continue with that company. Brittney is proficient in Excel, Solid works, Matlab and ANSYS. Also, in her free time she enjoys being outdoors, hiking, competing in ocean swim races and running half marathons.
Noah Kincheloe
Role: Website Editor
Mechanical Engineering Major
Email Address: nbk34@nau.edu
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Noah is also a senior studying mechanical engineering at Northern Arizona University. Within the team, Noah performs the role of website manager, designing and updating various web pages, and providing remote CAD and CFD support. His strengths lie primarily in his problem-solving skills and attention to detail. In terms of his mechanical engineering career, Noah currently has no plans for employment in the field after graduation. He is open to job opportunities allowing for remote work and flexible hours, but is not actively seeking them at this time. Currently, he lives in Southwest Colorado with his family and an assortment of geese, goats, and other animals. He enjoys snowboarding, fishing, hiking, and working on the occasional machining project in his garage.
Build Team Photo
Shown here are the four members of the team responsible for building the prototype, along with the device itself. This group was responsible for the acquisition of materials as well as the construction and of the device, while the fifth team member (Noah Kincheloe) focused on creating a thorough, detailed CAD model in addition to this website.