Rachel Joy Wallstrom
is a mechatronics engineer and maker.

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2023, Concentration in Mechatronics

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2021, Concentration in Product Realization

Rachel is a mechanical engineer and designer who specializes in mechatronics and manufacturing.

She especially enjoys designing mechanisms and bringing them to life with circuits and software. Her curiosity and drive to explore lend themselves to a love of prototyping. To her, this stage of the design process is where sparks fly, where visions evolve from blueprints to captivating realities.

Rachel is experienced in leadership in engineering projects and beyond. For the past two years, she has worked in the Stanford Product Realization Lab - a dynamic teaching hub encompassing a machine shop, fabrication facility, and maker space where she teaches design, manufacturing, and prototyping skills to over 1200 students a year.

Engineering Skills

Mechanism Design
State Machine Design
Prototyping
Embedded System Design
Design for Manufacturing
FMEA
FEA

Fabrication Skills

CAD
CAM
Woodworking
Digital Fabrication
Welding
Machining
Sand Casting
Soldering

Software and Coding Languages

Fusion360
Solidworks
PTC Creo
Adobe Illustrator

C
C++
Arduino
Julia
Matlab

Other Skills

Project Management
Teaching/Course design
Public Speaking