Arthur Ghukasyan
High honor Mechanical Engineering graduate passionate about solving real world problems through innovative design and hands on manufacturing.
Worcester, MA · May 2026
Copeland is a global leader in sustainable heating, cooling and refrigeration compression technologies and controls solutions for commercial, industrial, cold chain and residential end markets. This co-op was located at a 1M square foot manufacturing facility in Sidney, Ohio. As an Additive Manufacturing Intern, I:
- Optimized 3D CAD models for FDM thermoplastic and BMD metal machines using specialized software.
- Supported Product Design and Manufacturing Engineers with Design for Additive on fixtures and assemblies.
- Led the largest 3D printing project to date, reducing outsourcing costs and improving production capacity.
- Performed 3D scanning on prints and compared against theoretical models for validation and optimization.
Pulpdent is a family owned and operated dental research and manufacturing company established in 1947 and committed to its founding principles of education, prevention and proactive dental care. This internship involved working and prototyping in a machine shop to develop manufacturing equipment. The largest assembly I develped in the machine shop was a fully pneumatic machine designed to precisely fill dental syringes.
The WPI Makerspace and Prototype Lab offer the tools, technology, resources, and support to help current undergraduate and graduate students imagine, design, model, and tinker while they explore new ideas in a collaborative space. State-of-the-art equipment––which includes hand tools, a printed circuit board machine, a 48” x 36” laser cutter, and several fused deposition modeling printers––can be used for everything from coursework to academic projects to personal projects and can help take an idea from concept to prototype. My role as a workshop leader involved teaching fabrication and design skills: soldering, 3D printing, laser cutting, leatherworking, and more through interactive workshops.
- Sorted thousands of packages daily to ensure on-time delivery driver pickup.
- Achieved the fastest sorting rate on the floor — over 500 packages per hour.
SAE Aero Design East is an international annual competition where collegiate teams design, build, and test remote-controlled aircrafts following detailed technical guidelines. The Wings of Gompei team competed at the 2026 event in early March, which was located in Lakeland, Florida. Scoring for this event was based on aircraft payload capacity (2L bottles), a technical design report, and a flight readiness presentation. The remote-controlled aircraft features a 10ft wingspan, a high lift main wing, and a removable nose designed to access a cargo bay which holds 2L bottles. The structure is mainly comprised of lightweight lasercut plywood and balsawood, as well as some aluminum and 3D printed components for connection points. It is powered by a small battery located in the nose and propelled by two electric motors fitted with 1 ft diameter three-bladed propellers. The combined thrust of 15 pounds can accelerate this 26lb aircraft to a top speed of 30 mph and can takeoff in under 100ft. These features allowed the aircraft to score the first competition mission points in WPI’s four-year history at the competition!
This pen plotter was the result of an open ended class project that required the use of a stepper motor, servo motor, and a sensor. The X and Y axis of the pen were belt driven by two stepper motors, the servo was used actuate the pen up and down, and limit switches were used to home the pen to the origin. I 3D-printed a frame for motors, bearings, guide rails, and wrote custom MicroPython code to interpret and execute G-code commands.
WPI's Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) is a term long project where students work with organizations to tackle real-life problems and challenges where science and technology meet social issues and human needs. The sponser we worked with was Fundesteam, a non-profit and non-governmental organization that helps in the development and promotion of STEAM education, based in Latin America. We were tasked with building a low-cost server to host the thousands of educational videos that Fundesteam has produced. During our visit to a rural Panamanian school, we identified the challenges that the school faced such as poor electrical infrastructure, lack of accessibility, and slow internet connection. To combat these issues, we delivered an offline server that hosts educational STEAM videos and a handbook that summarizes the development process of the server, which serves as a proof of concept for our sponsor.
