Dominic Belyaev holding his Level 1 certification rocket at the launch site

Hi, I'm Dominic!

I'm a mechanical engineering student at Northwestern University (Class of 2028) focused on structures and materials for aerospace.

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Northwestern University
Northwestern University
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering — Concentration in Aerospace Engineering
Segal Design Certificate · planned BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering

Projects

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  • All
  • Design
  • Simulation & Analysis
  • Manufacturing
  • Controls & Embedded
The final twin-fin keel unit held in hand, blades on a single spring-loaded shaft

Retractable Keel Fin

FUSION 360 • ANSYS CFD • MECHANISM

Retractable Keel Fin
The finished full-length carbon bottom skin beside the mold it was built on

Composites Manufacturing

PLUGS • MOLDS • VACUUM BAGGING

Composites Manufacturing
The L1 certification rocket lifting off the pad under H182 power

NAR Level 1 High-Power Rocket

FIBERGLASS • OPENROCKET • H182R

NAR Level 1 High-Power Rocket
Finished carbon fiber nosecone assembled on its blue printed coupler

Carbon Fiber Nosecone

COMPOSITES • CADQUERY MOLD • CLOSED-MOLD LAYUP

Carbon Fiber Nosecone
Soldered perfboard flight computer with Pico 2 and socketed sensors

Flight Telemetry Computer

RP2350 • 100 HZ LOGGING • SENSOR CAL

Flight Telemetry Computer
The rocket climbing off the pad trailing a smoke column

Two Flights, One Afternoon

FLIGHT TEST • DATA RECOVERY • 3D RECONSTRUCTION

Two Flights, One Afternoon
SLS Nylon 12 brake caliper installed on the test bicycle

Bicycle Brake Caliper

NX • FEA • SLS NYLON 12

Bicycle Brake Caliper
Brushed DC motor with indicator arm and the breadboarded Pico 2 driver circuit

Closed-Loop DC Motor Control

C • RP2350 • PID

Closed-Loop DC Motor Control
3D-printed battery retention sled installed in the NUSTARS ATLAS payload

NUSTARS Battery Retention Sled

ONSHAPE • 3D PRINTING

NUSTARS Battery Retention Sled

Printed cell retention for the ATLAS payload on a ~7,500 ft competition rocket.
Section view through the button actuation mechanism

Button Actuation Mechanism

MECHANISM • PACKAGING

Button Actuation Mechanism
The MagClean magnet-assisted whiteboard eraser in use

MagClean Whiteboard Eraser

USER TESTING • MACHINING

MagClean Whiteboard Eraser
The Tele design fair poster — problem, features and solution

The Tele — Assistive Diapering

HUMAN-CENTRED • PROTOTYPING

The Tele — Assistive Diapering

Experience

Levanta Technologies — Mechanical Engineering Intern

Summer 2026 · Diamondhead, MS

Designed a passive retractable keel-fin mechanism for an autonomous maritime vehicle — ANSYS Fluent CFD to size the spring system, Fusion 360 mechanism CAD, working printed prototypes — and worked hands-on production composites from plugs and molds through the vehicle’s full-length carbon bottom skin.

Elytra Robotics — Mechanical Engineering Intern

Summer 2025

Designed and 3D printed PLA retention brackets that hold the trash containers on an autonomous trash-collection robot, and modelled a custom sheet-metal container in Onshape — self-taught in the sheet-metal workflow. Managed the BOM across design iterations.

NUSTARS — Northwestern Rocketry

2025 – present

Payload structures for a ~7,500 ft competition rocket: a 3D-printed battery retention sled for the ATLAS payload bay, secured with nylon-insert lock nuts against sustained boost vibration.

Formula SAE — Northwestern

2025 – present

Member of the pedalbox subteam, contributing to brake and gas pedal design iterations.

Skills

CAD

SOLIDWORKS · Onshape (incl. sheet metal) · Fusion · Siemens NX

Simulation & Materials

FEA (Siemens NX / Nastran) · topology optimization · Granta EduPack selection · CFD (ANSYS Fluent — validated 2D + first-pass 3D cases at Levanta) · Ansys ACP composites (in progress)

Manufacturing

3D printing (FDM/SLS) · manual machining (mill, drill press, bandsaw) · composite layup

Programming & Embedded

C/C++ on microcontrollers (Pico / RP2350, PIO) · Python · MATLAB

Contact

dominicbelyaev@gmail.com · LinkedIn · Evanston, IL