Undergraduate at Boğaziçi University

2017 – 2023

Sina Atalay

I studied mechanical engineering at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Türkiye.

This is where I truly learned software, mathematics, physics, and engineering.

In my second year, I decided to teach "Engineering Dynamics" on YouTube. Even today, I still receive "thank you" messages from students all over Turkey. I love teaching. Technical subjects often seem scarier than they are. But with patient explanation, I believe most people can understand most things.

Outside of coursework, I was really into sports. I spent the summers of 2019 and 2020 as a windsurfing instructor in Alaçatı, and in my final year I was the captain of the Boğaziçi University Ski Team. We competed in intercollegiate ski races around Turkey.

I graduated with a 3.80/4.00 GPA, ranking 3rd among 64 students. I also studied abroad for one semester at the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2021. Right after graduation, I went to CERN as a technical student.

Along the way, I worked on a bunch of projects:

Dynamometer for High-Speed, Low-Torque Motors (Fall 2022)

Computational Ion-Thruster Simulation on GitHub (Spring 2022)

Computational Vibration Transmissibility Optimization on GitHub (Spring 2022)

Ray Tracing with C++ on GitHub (Spring 2021)

Guitar Tuner with DC Motors (Fall 2020)

I also interned at a few places:

Turkish Aerospace Industries (Summer 2022)
I worked on the final assembly line of a supersonic jet aircraft, the TAI Hürjet. I learned how pieces are bolted together to make an aircraft.

Simularge (Summer 2022)
I wrote software to automate finite-element simulations of deep drawing using CalculiX.

Aselsan (Summer 2021)
I ran computational vibration simulations on a truss structure under development.