Community Partners & Mentors

Corvid Technologies

Corvid delivers cutting-edge engineering solutions to the military, motorsports companies, and the USA Bobsled team. They use high-fidelity computational physics to solve problems for customers related to computational fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering, and material science. Problems range from how to design a fin on a missile for it to fly faster, how a vehicle can better protect soldiers from a bomb blast, how to modify a race car to go faster, or how to design a bobsled to go faster and help our Olympians win a medal at the Olympics.

Corvid also builds target rockets for the Navy. They make new designs for military equipment using 3D printers and have equipment in-house, like a gas gun, to launch things at high speeds and see what happens to them.

Mr. Decker, Corvid, mechanical engineer, community mentor, proposal reviewer.

Mr. Decker is a lead engineer at Corvid Technologies applying his 16 years of experience in structural analysis and design and advanced numerical methods to predict structural response during blast, impact, and other high strain rate events.

He currently supports Corvid’s Tactical Wheeled Vehicles group in analyzing MRAP and other DOD vehicles subjected to mine, IED, and other explosive loadings; predicting the effects of rocket and missile attack on vehicles and the effectiveness of active protection systems on these threats; designing, analyzing, and testing new missile launch platforms; and advancing shaped-charge jet, explosively formed projectile, and other threat analysis capabilities.

His relevant experience includes analysis of high-velocity penetration and impact events, prediction of the effects of blast and penetration attacks on fortified structures, analysis and design of exposed structural systems subjected to internal or external explosive events and other extreme loadings, structural progressive collapse, analysis and design of vehicle impact barriers, and test planning and execution.

His responsibilities include overseeing the technical analysis of a group of engineers, including calculations, modeling, simulation, reporting, rapid product development, and facilitating technical exchange with customers.

Dr. Mike Tree, Corvid, mechanical engineer, community mentor, proposal reviewer.

Dr. Tree is a Computational Analyst at Corvid Technologies, specializing in computational fluid dynamics. Within this area, he has extensive experience in stability analysis, 6-DOF coupling, fluid-structure interaction, immersed boundary method, overset meshing methods, dual-spin projectile applications. Dr. Tree’s main responsibilities at Corvid include creating, solving, and analyzing large-scale fluid dynamic solutions as well as utilizing CFD/6-DOF coupled simulations to analyze static aerodynamic stability.

Town of Mooresville

A division of the Town’s Public Services Department, the Engineering Division, is committed to serving the community by supporting Town departments with design and implementation of capital improvement projects including new sidewalks, paving projects, water and sewer lines, and Town facilities.

Mr. Jonathan Young, PE

Mr. Young is the Engineering Director for the Town of Mooresville and has served in the role for almost three years. Prior to that he worked as a Senior Engineer over project management for the Town of Mooresville. In his current role Mr. Young supervise the Engineering Department comprised of 7 staff members in charge of all Town of Mooresville Infrastructure Projects including water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and transportation improvements. The Engineering Department also plays a key role in private land development permitting within the Town including review and approval of all development construction documents and field inspection during the construction process.

Mr. Young is also the supervisor over the Stormwater Department comprised of 6 staff members which includes administration personnel in charge of the implementation of the Town of Mooresville’s Phase II NPDES Permit and personnel in charge infrastructure maintenance. Mr. Young holds to Bachelor of Science Degrees from NC State University in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering and has 26 years of working experience. This includes 16 years of private design engineering working for a local Mooresville consulting firm and 10 years in municipal engineering. Mr. Young is a licensed professional engineer in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. Young is also a licensed General Contractor and Certified Floodplain Manager in North Carolina.

Ms. Ashton Walker, PE

Mrs. Walker has served as the Senior Engineer for the Town of Mooresville for almost two years. Mrs. Walker oversees the Land Development operations for the Town from the initial conceptual plan review process, the more detailed Construction Document and permitting review, and through construction. She also manages a variety of Town Infrastructure Improvement projects ranging from waterline replacements, new stormwater management facilities, and roadway improvement projects, just to name a few examples, during design and through construction.

Mrs. Walker obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from UNC Charlotte, and has 10 years of working experience. The majority of Mrs. Walker’s professional experience prior to joining the Town of Mooresville was in private design consulting engineering in the land development field, and she also worked for a large utility company. Mrs. Walker is a licensed professional engineer in North Carolina.

CRP-USA

The CRP USA provides engineering expertise and solutions through Windform Advanced 3D printing and high precision CNC machining to the American industries of motorsports, defense, space, automotive, entertainment and UAV. CRP has developed CubeSat structures for nanosatellites and TuPODs.

Mr. Stewart Davis

Stewart Davis is the Director of Operations for CRP USA, headquartered in Mooresville NC. He began his work in 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing in 1993 as a student at Milwaukee School of Engineering. He has extensive experience in producing parts for motorsports, materials optimization for flight and space structures as well as a focus on the production of functional components using Additive Manufacturing. His work in Cube Satellites and Small Satellites began in 2009. CRP USA currently produces components for Motorsport, Entertainment, Automotive, and Aerospace industries utilizing Windform materials and Laser Polymer Melting technology.

Mr. Nate Baker

Mr. Baker is the senior project coordinator at CRP USA. He has 9 years of experience in the 3D printing industry. His main function is to support the interface between our customers, our company, and our manufacturing team. This includes providing quotes, examination and designing of CAD models and drawings, maintaining project deadlines, and helping to support the company’s quality management system throughout each of these processes. He is currently working on completing his mechanical engineering technology degree at Mitchell Community College.

Mitchell Community College

Mitchell Community College, a learning-centered institution, provides affordable, high-quality educational and training programs and services to meet the changing and diverse lifelong learning needs of a multi-culturally diverse citizenry who live and work in a global society.

The Mechanical Engineering department prepares students to work in mechanical and manufacturing engineering fields as a mechanical engineering technician or begin work on a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. On either path, students can become knowledgeable in engineering graphics, engineering fundamentals and materials and manufacturing processes.

Mr. Colin Robinson, Mitchell Community College, community mentor, mechanical engineering faculty

Mooresville Graded School District

Academics within the Mooresville Graded School District are at the core of student performance and exist to establish MGSD students as globally innovative leaders by fostering a culture that cultivates critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, rigor, relevance and social relationships. District level administrators facilitate the overall plans for and implementation of MGSD's academic curriculum and instruction; site administrators lead the implementation of curriculum and instruction and are key stakeholders in all decision-making regarding it. All district schools’ curriculum is aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, and enhanced via a digital format and digital resources.

In 7th grade, students learn how the cycling of matter (water and gases) in and out of the atmosphere relates to Earth’s atmosphere, weather and climate and the effects of the atmosphere on life on this planet. This includes the layers of Earth’s atmosphere, how winds, clouds and storms form and their characteristics as well as the water cycle. Most importantly students discuss the sources and effects of pollution in our atmosphere and what we can do to make improvements for the future.

Ms. Laura Smith, Middle School Science Educator

In her 30th year of teaching, Ms. Laura Smith received her BA from UNC- Chapel Hill and MA in Curriculum and Instruction from Chapman University in Orange, Ca. She taught 1st grade for 4 years and then realized her passion was science. She taught Computer Lab for 13 years, and then for the past 13 years, has taught classroom science from 2nd through 8th grade.

She holds a National Board Certification, and has always prided herself on being a life-long learner. She has been invited to 3 summer week-long national teacher training institutes in the past 10 years- the Michelson ExxonMobil Teaching Academy at the Liberty Science Center in New York was where sheI discovered her love for physics. She attended Honeywell Educators at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, and then Real World Science at the WW2 Museum in New Orleans. All of these opportunities have shaped her love for STEM in the classroom.

Mr. Dustin Roten, STEM Educator

Mr. Dustin Roten is a third-year Ph.D Candidate at the University of Utah in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. His research focuses on characterizing urban CO₂ emissions using various space-based observation platforms including NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory instruments (OCO-2 and OCO-3). In addition to his current research, he has assisted in the maintenance of the Utah Urban Carbon Dioxide Network (UUCON), a long-running ground-based atmospheric observation network in the Salt Lake Valley.

During 2018, he served as an academic fellow of the Global Change and Sustainability Center (GCSC) at the University of Utah where he worked with an interdisciplinary group of researchers in the investigation of regional air quality problems associated with the Salt Lake Valley. Beyond his work as a researcher, Dustin has spent time as a STEM educator, having taught mathematics, physics, and design courses at the high school and community college levels. Dustin also has been published three times in various academic journals.