Mechanical Engineering · University of Alberta

Raymond Beschieru

First-year Mechanical Engineering student (Co-op Plan 2) at the University of Alberta.

First-class-standing student focused on design, fluid mechanics, and instrumentation — with an eye on Alberta's energy and manufacturing industries.

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01

About

For as long as I can remember I've wanted to understand how things work; that curiosity is what pulled me toward mechanical engineering in the first place. Outside of school, I spend a lot of time restoring and working on my own car, which scratches the same itch: pull it apart, figure out why it does what it does, put it back together better. When I'm not in the shop, I'm usually playing guitar, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or reading into philosophy — I like slow, structural thinking as much as I like fast, mechanical problems.

  • Guitar
  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  • Car restoration
  • Philosophy

02

Education

  1. 2025 – Present

    University of Alberta

    B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering · Co-op Plan 2 · Edmonton, AB

    • Completed first year with first-class standing — 3.9 GPA.
    • Admitted with entrance scholarships.
  2. Graduated

    Paul Kane High School

    St. Albert, AB

    • High-school diploma — 4.0 weighted GPA.

03

Experience

  1. Apr 2026 – Aug 2026
    Seasonal Full-Time
    Sep 2026 – Present
    Part-Time

    Product Photography & Cataloguing · GCL Diesel

    Titled General Labour · Diesel parts supplier

    • Produced and managed product photography for GCL Diesel's parts catalogue, supporting online listings across an extensive inventory.
    • Built a repeatable visual-documentation workflow — consistent lighting, staging, and file naming — so catalogue imagery stayed accurate and easy to search.
    • Cross-checked parts against inventory records to keep every listing correctly identified and organized.
  2. Jan 2025 – Aug 2025

    Product Demonstrator (CDS) · Costco Wholesale

    Club Demonstration Services

    • Engaged a steady stream of customers each shift, presenting product features and fielding questions on a busy retail floor.
    • Adapted quickly to a rotating product lineup, learning new product details each week and tailoring the pitch to each shopper.
    • Ran setup, demonstration, and teardown independently while holding to food-safety and cleanliness standards.

04

Projects

Venturi Flow Meter

Designed a Venturi flow meter that applies Bernoulli's principle to determine flow rate from the pressure differential across a converging–diverging throat. The body was modelled in Fusion 360, and a short Arduino IDE sketch reads the pressure/flow sensor input and converts it into a live flow-rate estimate. The project was chosen for its direct relevance to Alberta's oil, gas, and process-instrumentation industry.

  • Fusion 360
  • Arduino IDE
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Instrumentation

Measured data, results, and photos to be added.

05

Skills

CAD

  • Fusion 360
  • SolidWorks

Technical & Analysis

  • MATLAB

Currently completing the MATLAB Onramp certification.

Programming

  • Python
  • Arduino IDE

Documentation

  • Product photography
  • Technical documentation
  • Cataloguing & organization

06

Volunteering

Feed the World

Dates to be confirmed

Volunteer · St. Albert, AB

  • Volunteer with a St. Albert food-security initiative. Role details and dates to be added.

07

Contact

Open to co-op and summer engineering roles, and happy to talk about any of the above.