Alexander Hall

323 Atherton Hall akh5566@psu.edu

University Park, PA 16802 (412) 721-4120

Objective:
To obtain an internship the Summer of 2018 in a Mechanical Engineering setting, learn about my intended career path, and
gain experience in working to solve real-world problems.
Education
The Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College – University Park, PA Anticipated Graduation: May 2021
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.76/4.00
Relevant Courses: Honors Intro to Engineering Design, Ordinary & Partial Differential Equations, Electricity & Magnetism
Clubs: Member, Penn State American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2017-Present; Member, Robotics 2017-present
The Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences Summer 2016
Carnegie Mellon University
• 60 students selected out of almost 400 applicants for this five-week program
• Science courses and labs taught by university faculty
• Did original research on Quantum Physics

Work Experience
Analyst Intern, AnalysisPlace Summer 2017
• Excel spreadsheet modeling: Helped create comprehensive Excel-based tools to automate the development of Cisco
Systems customer proposals and business cases, including internationalization and Word document automation
• Developed and published AnalysisPlace.com web page content using Microsoft Visual Studio, a content management
system, HTML, and CSS
NTA Enterprises - Warehouse Associate Summers 2014, 2015
• 40 hours a week at a hunting clothing company, picking and processing orders to be shipped to stores
• Assigned with helping to hire other employees
Lawn Mowing Business Summers 2013-2015
• Started my own lawn mowing business, advertising to get new customers, mowing and maintaining laws, and repairing
the mower as necessary

Activities and Involvement

Vice President and Regional Representative – School’s Future Business Leaders of America chapter
• Helped plan regional conference and presented in front of a hundred students
• Organized funds, goods, and volunteers for community service event making over 100 lunches
• Weekly officer meetings and biweekly general meetings
• 2016 Accounting first place and 2015 Computer Problem Solving first place
Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science
• 2017 first award
• 2017 Application of Physics award
• 2015 and 2016 second award
Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair
• 2016 fourth place in Physics
• Created a machine that captures solar energy and stores it as gravitational energy
• Researched methods of cell phone battery life extension through energy recovery
Head Coach – Youth Soccer Team
• Head coach in 2016 and assistant coach in 2015 of a third-grade boys’ soccer team with two practices and one
game per week
• Managed schedule and parent emails, coached games, assigned positions, conveyed strategies to team
Skills
• Coding: HTML/CSS, Java, Python
• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visual Studio
• CAD