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DIEGO MARIN // LOS ANGELES // dmarin0013j@gmail.com // linkedin.com/in/marin-diego

[ PROFILE ]

I'm an 18-year-old mechanical engineering student at CSUN with an electrical engineering minor, open to internships.

I co-founded MAPC Technologies at 12, and we've been building and flying capsules since. I design in Fusion 360, print in carbon-fiber filament, design the PCBs, assemble and test everything myself.

[ EDUCATION ]

CSUN
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, minor in Electrical Engineering

Grover Cleveland Charter High School
Graduated with honors, 2026

[ SELECTED WORK ]

  • EhĂ©catl LCC-3. Flight-proven, 3D-printed cargo capsule with a payload door release, drogue chute and three-motor solid rocket landing system.
  • Itzanma III. Fully autonomous capsule printed in PA6-CF, with three independently controlled stabilization surfaces. Ground tested.
  • CTS-2. Flight-proven capsule built on a $50 budget. First in the program with onboard electronics.
  • TVC rocket engine. Arduino-controlled solid motor with a flexible-membrane thrust vectoring system, static-fired 5 times.
  • Autonomous model car. 1/10-scale 4WD chassis on a Raspberry Pi 5 with GPS, IMU and LiDAR. In development.
  • 20-DOF humanoid and NASA Perseverance rover model. Both designed in Fusion 360 and 3D printed. The rover has a working rocker-bogie suspension.

[ SKILLS & COMPETENCIES ]

CAD & SIMULATION
AUTODESK FUSION 360FEA STRUCTURAL ANALYSISGENERATIVE DESIGN
ELECTRONICS & EMBEDDED HARDWARE
CUSTOM PCB DESIGN (EASYEDA)EMBEDDED HARDWARE INTEGRATIONARDUINO & RASPBERRY PISENSOR INTEGRATION
RAPID PROTOTYPING & MATERIALS
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (PA-CF, PETG, TPU, ABS, RESIN)COMPOSITE LAYUP & FABRICATIONPRECISION HARDWARE ASSEMBLY
TESTING & VALIDATION
SYSTEM & SUBSYSTEM TESTINGSTATIC FIRES & FLIGHT TESTINGFAILURE ANALYSIS

[ BY THE NUMBERS ]

3 flight-proven
LCC-3, CTS-2, CTS-1
11 CAPSULES BUILT
5 YEARS
2 grants
$1,450
3 industry sponsors
2025
Team founded
2021

[ HONORS ]

  • HSF SCHOLAR, 2026
  • COLLEGE BOARD NATIONAL RECOGNITION PROGRAM, 2026
  • AP Scholar with Distinction, 2026
  • State Seal of Biliteracy, Spanish, 2026
  • Invited Scholar, National Youth Leadership Forum: Engineering, 2023 to 2025
  • President's Education Awards, 2022 & 2019

[ LEADERSHIP, GRANTS & SPONSORS ]

  • Co-founder and team lead, MAPC Technologies
  • Senior Board member and chair across two committees, including Senior Class Apparel
  • Bagel Fund grantee, 2025 ($450)
  • 1517 Fund Medici Project grantee, 2024 ($1,000)
  • Sponsored by SUNLU, AMOLEN and ANYCUBIC, 2025

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