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a mechanical engineering university student

Mohammad Yaameen Zafar

MohammadYaameenZafar

Mechanical Engineering student at UCL.

mohammadyaameenzafar@gmail.com
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About Me

I'm Mohammad Yaameen Zafar, a Mechanical Engineering student at UCL, and what drives me is wanting to build things that actually work in the real world, not just on paper. That's taken me from designing, building and testing a wind turbine from scratch, to CAD and simulation work at Clearzone, to building a hand-tracking system for a robotics startup — each one pushing me to close the gap between a good idea and something that actually performs. Long term, I want to be the kind of engineer who can take a project from a sketch to something people can rely on.

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Experience

01 / Jun – Aug 2026

Intern· first year summer

Clearzone

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Product development support ahead of launch: CAD, thermal simulation in ANSYS, and CE certification testing.

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02 / Aug 2026 · 1 month

Intern· first year summer

ELO

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CAD design for a robotic hand in Fusion 360 and a Python laptop-camera hand tracker feeding live joint targets to the mechanism.

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03 / Apr – Jun 2026

Undergraduate Researcher

University College London

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Research under Prof. Paul Fromme on the response of a carbon-fibre sandwich honeycomb ply to radiation exposure, for aeronautical applications.

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04 / 2023 – 2025

Founder

Clear Frame

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Founded a media agency at 16 serving fitness and powerlifting brands; ran client work and a small team.

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Personal Projects

ANSYS Fluent pathlines across the blade surface
  • FEA
  • CFD
  • ANSYS
  • Fusion 360
  • Testing

Independent project · 20-page report

Wind Turbine Design Project

Designed, simulated, 3D-printed, and experimentally tested a small-scale three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbine — from CFD prediction through to measured electrical output and a full efficiency-loss analysis.

  • Designed and 3D-printed a three-blade HAWT in Fusion 360 with a NACA 4412 aerofoil, then ran ANSYS Fluent CFD (MRF, k-omega SST) predicting 2,476 mW — 86.8% of the 2,854 mW Betz limit.
  • Built an Arduino + INA219 test rig measuring 58.73 mW (2.1% efficiency), then traced the gap to generator mismatch, motor losses, and surface roughness across a 20-page report.
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Simulated carbonate-system kinetics from the report: species concentrations against time on log-log axes
  • MATLAB
  • Thermodynamics
  • Numerical methods
  • Data analysis

Project 02 · MATLAB modelling report

CO₂ Uptake Analysis in Seawater

Phase equilibrium · Reaction kinetics

A two-part MATLAB model of how the ocean absorbs CO₂, built and validated against real reef measurements.

  • Built the phase-equilibrium model in MATLAB — Raoult's law, Henry's law, Peng–Robinson fugacity.
  • Solved the carbonate kinetics as a stiff ODE system to find the rate-limiting step.
  • Ran 15 years of Great Barrier Reef data through both models: +6.6% equilibrium dissolved CO₂.
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CAD render of the bespoke reading-nook furniture system
  • CAD
  • Iterative Design
  • Prototyping
  • Manufacture
  • Evaluation

Project 03 · A-Level Design & Technology NEA

Design & Technology NEA Project

190/200 — highest mark in the school

My A-Level Design & Technology NEA — a full design-and-make project taken from research through iterative CAD, prototyping and manufacture: a multi-functional reading-nook storage unit, refined across multiple iterations before the final piece was made.

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  • Python
  • Computer vision
  • Robotics
  • CAD

Project 04 · In progress

Hand-Controlled Robotic Hand

PENDING

A personal project outside of ELO: a robotic hand I control in real time with my Python hand-tracking system, which reads the angle of each finger from a webcam and drives the hand's joints. Build in progress.

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Education & Awards

2025 – present

BSc Mechanical Engineering

University College London

A-Levels

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

  • MathematicsA*
  • PhysicsA*
  • Design & TechnologyA*
  • Project Work190/200

Honours

  • Saville Scholarship
  • Physics Award
  • Design & Technology Award
  • Rotary Advanced Level STEM Competition Award
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Team Lead Examples

01 / 2026

IMechE Design Challenge

Team lead, team of 6

Led a team of six building a pipe-climbing robot; placed in the top 5 nationally against 300+ students.

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02 / 2023 – 2025

Clear Frame

Founder and team lead

Led the working team behind the agency: briefing, scheduling, quality review and client delivery.

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03 / Semester 1, UCL

Truss Design Project

Team lead, team of 6

Led six students designing and optimising a truss against structural, cost, flow-rate and electrical constraints; awarded a high First Class.

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04 / Before university

VEX Robotics

Founder and team lead, school team

Founded and led the school VEX robotics team from scratch: recruitment, build schedule and competition preparation.

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Skills

CAD & Simulation

  • Fusion 360
  • ANSYS Fluent
  • ANSYS Mechanical
  • CFD

Programming

  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • Arduino / C

Mechanical Fundamentals

  • Aerodynamics
  • Thermal
  • Materials
  • Structures

Instrumentation & Testing

  • Sensor rigs
  • Data acquisition
  • Test procedure design
  • Error analysis

Research Methods

  • Literature review
  • Experimental design
  • Specimen handling
  • Technical writing

Leadership & Business

  • Team leadership
  • Project scheduling
  • Client delivery
  • Founding ventures
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Contact

Email

mohammadyaameenzafar@gmail.com

Based in

London, United Kingdom

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