Eli Branstetter

Driven Robotics & Automation Engineer with proven technical & leadership experience

Work Experience

Tested life cycle of motorized drive rollers by producing test fixtures and creating PLC and Excel programs to collect and analyze data. Additionally performed competitor analysis for new product development through patent review

Regal Rexnord

Modsort Engineering Co-op

Designed custom automation station to upgrade customer's existing cell and performed Factory Acceptance Testing on three multi-station assembly machines

MiQ Partners

Mechanical Engineering Co-op

Regal Rexnord

Modsort Engineering Co-op

Designed new conveyor attachment and tested the compatibility of industry leading transfer strips with the Modsort catalog. Testing was aided through the use of sample conveyor lines programmed with ladder logic to reduce testing time by 50%

Prism Plastics - A Marmon Holdings Company

Development Engineering Intern

Marmon Holdings

Automation Engineering Intern

Led projects to increase or improve automation capabilities for post processing of injection molded plastic parts. Projects included managing automation integrators and designing, purchasing, and programming an in house implementation

Investigated new technologies for subsidiary companies including marking technologies for powder coated metal parts and 3D scanning and reverse engineering methods for after market automotive parts

May - Aug 2024

Chicago. IL

May 2025 - Present

Meadville, PA

Aug - Dec 2023

Florence, KY

Jan- April 2023

Florence, KY

May - Aug 2022

West Chester, OH

Projects

Led a group twenty students and mentors to work on a project to supply clean water to the community of Gikingo in Rwanda. Included project selection and assessment trip to the community

UC Innovation Challenge

Bye Bye Birdie

Team Lead and Mechanical Designer

Lead the Event Horizon Team to compete in robotics competitions for three years. I designed the robot and custom parts in Fusion 360 CAD and we won multiple mechanical design awards and advanced to tournament final matches

Lead fundraising, and construction of a Chimney Swift tower to aid habitat loss for the birds. Requiring over 270 hours from 30 volunteers

EWB USA UC Chapter

Gikingo Water Supply Project

Committee Co-Chair

Senior Capstone

Low Water Silicon Wafer Cleaning

Team Lead and Computer Vision Engineer

FIRST Tech Challenge

Event Horizon

Team Lead and Mechanical Lead

Scouting America

Eagle Scout

Developed a device to clean silicon wafers using a single water droplet to supporting research into novel chip-cleaning methods. Included mechanical and electrical design and computer vision programming. Awarded 1st place out of 50 Mechanical Engineering teams at Senior Expo

Created and presented a turret to use modulated ultrasonic waves to create sound beams. The device could be used to scare birds from undesired areas like airports or farms without harm. Won 2nd place of 20 teams for entrepreneurial opportunity

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