I'm Thomas Nardone, a mechanical engineering senior interested in turning complex requirements into practical designs—and understanding how they perform.
Explore my work
A printable airframe.
A traceable analysis workflow.
Connecting native CAD, onboard camera packaging, and MATLAB-driven aerodynamic screening in a 1.8 m twin-boom aircraft concept.
Read the case studyNominal wingspan
Accepted section CFD cases
Components in the Rev B 3D explorer
A manually adjusted optical-alignment gimbal, designed around PETG printing, accessible hardware, and documented assembly checks.
Explore the gimbalHands-on experience with equipment qualification, mechanical testing, and the data that supports a design decision.
Implemented and qualified a pilot-scale powder compression simulator, coordinated acceptance testing, and developed a repeatable mechanical test method. Built an HTML batch-planning tool and structured production records for analysis.
Built an Arduino data-acquisition system for lift reliability testing. Applied repeated service loading, identified a load-bearing bracket failure mode, and used SOLIDWORKS to assess clearances and mechanical interfaces.
Worked on a 12-person team that designed and fabricated a competition-winning tunnel-boring device. Modified the tunnel interface in SOLIDWORKS to integrate a string potentiometer for displacement measurement.
I'm Thomas Michael Nardone II, a senior studying mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, graduating in May 2027.
My experience spans R&D equipment, mechanical reliability, CAD, and manufacturing. I'm especially interested in projects where the geometry, the test setup, and the analysis have to work together.
I'm a Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate and an Eagle Scout. I bring the same combination of initiative and follow-through to individual projects and engineering teams.