What’s up everybody! My name is Mina Schepmann, I am a sophomore at Rice University, and I am studying Mechanical Engineering. Additionally (and almost the most important thing on here), I am a very proud Jonesian (JIBAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!).

In my past year at Rice, I have spent 2/3 of my time in the OEDK. During my second semester, I took ENGI 120, working with a team to create a charging and parking station for electric scooters around Rice campus. This experience gave me so much motivation to pursue the Engineering Design Minor and continue being around the OEDK. Then, I was a part of the SEED program over the summer (again, at the OEDK). In seven weeks, I worked with two other Rice students to create a stomach pump for pre-maturely born children which auto-regulates pressure in the stomach.

Aside from engineering endeavors, I am an Associate Justice at Jones college, I work as a Lab Assistant at the OEDK, and I am a member of the Medical Technologies club at Rice University.

Aside from the projects I have worked on at Rice, I am very proud of a lamp that I made during my senior year of high school in my advanced woodworking course. It took me two semesters to make, it was the most painful thing I ever made, but it turned out amazing.

Looking to the future, I hope to build a working transmission box, as I am interested in gear ratios and how they affect drivetrain.

In ENGI 210, I really want to learn about injection molding. Over the summer at my internship, there was a part that would have been so much easier to make if I had known how to cast and mold, so that is my motivation. At the same time, I find it genuinely interesting, and I’ve heard from others who took the class how fun it is.