About the Author
My name is Andrew Thraen and I am a mechanical engineer in my last semester of studies at Purdue University. The reason I wanted to start this blog is to keep my
friends and family updated with any projects I’m working on, and to share some
awesome engineering related images and videos on the web. My particular areas of interest include
engines of all types, motorcycles, fast cars, turbines, and the production of
such items. I also enjoy wood working and metal working and combining the two
in order to create moving sculptures or mechanical furniture. I have been working at the
Purdue Mechanical Engineering Machine Shop for a year and a half now, and I just finished a research internship in Germany at Leibniz Institute for Production
and Machine Tooling. Because of that background some of this blog will also be dedicated to
manufacturing of parts for my personal projects. Aside from engineering, I love to be very
active and stay busy in my free time at the gym, riding dirtbikes, skiing, and
playing whatever random sport has caught my interest at the time (unicycling,
bowling, ping pong, badminton, and golfing, just to name a few). A special thanks goes out to my parents for
always supporting me, Bob Caras for showing me the blurred lines between
engineering and art, and Thomas Cummings for teaching me that it’s ok to ask a lot of questions.
*I would like to clarify that posts in the 'Projects' section are my own work, and posts that go in the 'Images' or 'Videos' section are work done by others*
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