Russell Bilinski
Second semester, fourth year mechanical engineering at the University of Victoria. FSAE Vehicle Dynamics Lead on UVic's first EV build. Prior Tesla Battery Pack Mechanical Engineering internship. Work spans mechanical design, CAD automation, controls, first-principles analysis, and physical testing.
Skills
CAD & SolidWorks
Communication & Leadership
Controls & Motor Control
FEA & Analysis
First-Principles Problem Solving
Hands-On & Shop Experience
Mechanical Design & DFM
Python & Computational Engineering
Robotics
Physical Testing & Instrumentation
Featured projects
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Battery Cooling Testing
Chose experiment over CFD because the geometry was too irregular to trust a sim. Derived an h-correlation from raw thermocouple and power data.
Motor Testing & Characterization
Built a BLDC characterization bench across ODrive and VESC to separate motor behavior from controller artifacts. Extracted Kt, Kv, friction, and inertia from real test data.
FSAE Gear Ratio Selection
Turned a design-review argument into a vehicle-level decision problem. ~50 points at stake.
Busbar Calculator
Transient I²R + convection ODE for FSAE busbars. Analytical steady state, numerical transient, temperature-dependent resistivity.
FSAE Segment Structural HandCalcs
Lid bending, fastener tension / shear, Euler-Johnson buckling, and bond strength under SES 20g / 40g crash loads. All safety factors above 1.
Competitive High School Robotics
Four years of VEX competition. 2x Worlds qualifier, Vancouver Island Regional Championship, lead programmer responsible for ~80-90% of programming run points.
pygeartrain — Gear Profile Generation
Forked open-source gear library; added CAD export so helical and herringbone planetary profiles drop directly into SolidWorks. Used on the QDD actuator with Aaron.
Nusselt Correlation Derivation
Derivation showing h scaling with velocity. With m ≈ 0.7 and fan affinity laws, doubling cooling takes ~16× fan power.
FSAE Battery Pack Mounts Jig
Welding jig with swappable inserts so placement tables survive repeated TIG passes without a full rebuild.