My Summary

My name is Isaac Rex–I am a student of electrical engineering at Iowa State University. I have been passionate about electronics design ever since my first Arduino project. I had been restoring my 1984 Camaro (another one of my passions) when I decided I wanted to do unique mods that I could only achieve if I learned more about electronics. This started me down the EE path.

I have worked multiple jobs throughout the last 6 years: I started working for Dean Rex Construction doing manual labor, operating and repairing heavy equipment (like dump trucks, dozers, and excavators), and working directly with customers. After I moved to Colorado, I started working for Denver Beverage servicing and repairing soda and juice machines for restaurants, bars, and nursing homes. As the single service tech for the entire Colorado Springs area, I was also responsible for picking up slack on deliveries and working directly with customers on needs and issues. After a year and a half, I left this job to return to college.

During college I have had two mid-semester jobs and one internship. During Spring 2019 I was a TA for our Circuits II class. During Fall of 2019 I worked as a student design engineer for the department that helps design and maintain the Universities teaching labs. Over Summer 2019, I interned at Garmin in their automotive OEM department. I worked on high speed serializer/deserializer (SerDes) interfaces, doing a complete design from specs to completion.

My ultimate goal is to own a job shop for designing electronics and mechanics. I would like to offer a service where people can come for custom repairs and builds of unique items. My favorite things to do is problem solve and create new and useful things, so I think this goal fits nicely in to my passions. I have some experience working with machine shop tools (lathes, milling machines, precision measurement instruments, etc.) and plan to start building a stocked shop as soon as I graduate. In the meantime, I would love to work as a design engineer for a good company with strong ethics and appreciation for excellent design.

My expected graduation date for my bachelor degree is Fall 2020.

I have done a plethora of projects over the years, some of which can be seen on the right or on my projects page.

If you would like to contact me, please find my contact information on the resume page

Projects

  • A bench-top power supply I designed and built for the test and development of other projects. This project has been one of my biggest projects to date. It was the impetus that taught me about basic electronics.

  • A constant current dummy load designed to test power supplies. It’s capable of sinking up to 3A and ~15 Watts.

  • This is a project to improve the lighting for the gear shifter on my 1984 Camaro. It’s a two board project with the sensor board and the control/LED board.