Asher Nederveld

About Asher Nederveld

I am currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Honors at the University of Austin. While attending, I have been an active member of Longhorn Racing, UT Austin\'s FSAE chapter, a teaching assistant for electrical engineering courses, and an undergraduate researcher for the Power Electronics and Magnetics Group. When I\'m not focusing on engineering, I\'ll often be out playing tennis, rock climbing, or reading through a book that caught my curiosity. Through my time with LHR, I have gained valuable experience in the practical side of engineering through both our design and manufacturing cycles. In the design cycle, I\'ve learned many great skills like circuit simulation, PCB layout, understanding technical documents for micro-controllers, and collaborating with a team of engineers. On the manufacturing side though, I\'ve gotten exposed to real world constraints when turning an idea into reality. Whether it\'s parasitic components in circuits, sourcing parts, or making sure software interfaces properly, having to carry an idea to fruition has shown me that implementation is a skill in itself, and not just secondary to design. However, besides just the engineering experience, LHR provided me with leadership experience when I served as Public Relation\'s Officer for the organization, leading a group of 5 to develop social media content. As a TA, I got to share my passion for engineering by running the lab sections for Honors Introduction to Electrical Engineering. In this role, I helped students as they learned about MOS-FETS, OP-AMPs, general lab equipment, and circuit analysis. It was a very rewarding experience, and not only was it great to help other students, but it also strengthened my own fundamentals in circuit theory. Finally, as an undergraduate researcher, I got to explore circuits and power converters more in-depth than I had ever before. While working on building a Solar PV Emulator (a controllable black box of a solar panel), I got to learn about different methods of modeling and analysis in hopes of achieving a more realistic circuit model of a solar cell. I also might have gotten some first hand experience about the importance of not mixing up the positive and negative terminals when working on a step down converter as well. In the end, my passion is solving problems. Nothing is more intriguing than being given a problem and a blank piece of paper to solve it. Sometimes, the solution developed on paper works perfectly, but often, a few additional wires and some extra holes drilled in the PCB are needed

Experience

1. Telemetry Engineer

   Longhorn Racing Electric

   Aug 2022 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Helped design, test, and interface with a mix of digital and analog sensors meant to gather data in real time for the LHRe 2023 car. I\'m currently working on a circuit board and its respective code to record and transmit the wheel speed of our car.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Honors Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0

• Stratford High School

  4.0