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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 ]
- Ehécatl 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