Personal · 2025
Unity 2D physics game
A 2D platformer in Unity with a movement-meets-combat spell system. PID-controlled weapon physics; spring-board level mechanics derived from free-body diagrams.
C#UnityGame design
Engineer · University of Bath
Zach Slater.
Practical automation,
from first principles.
I'm a second-year Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering student at the University of Bath. I build small, real things — closed-loop irrigation rigs, custom PCBs, physics-y video games — and care about how engineering theory meets the workshop.
Featured project
Bosch Rexroth — placement interview.
Industrial Automation · 2026
Bosch Rexroth — Placement Interview
An 11-slide deck arguing for ctrlX automation through a working irrigation demo built on Bosch Rexroth's open-source stack. Outcome: placement offered, starts 6 July 2026.
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Placement Interview · 9 April 2026
Automation,
from first principles.
Prepared for Bosch Rexroth · Zach Slater
Selected projects
Things I've built.
Personal · 2025
Automatic plant waterer
Arduino + H-bridge + soil-moisture sensor on a 30-minute control loop, tuned over 3-day MATLAB sweeps. CAD-printed plant support and spray nozzle.
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Group · 2025
Modular weather display
PCB designed in KiCad with mixed through-hole and SMD soldering. Arduino fetches live weather and lights a panel of LED-backed symbols. Authored the technical report.
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Education
Where I've studied.
2024 — 2027
University of Bath
BEng Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
Working towards a 2.1 (1st-year average 68%).
- Solid Mechanics 185%
- Fundamentals of Engineering Analysis83%
- Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics 166%
2018 — 2024
Claremont Fan Court School
A-Levels & GCSEs
Maths (A), Computer Science (A), Physics (B), Further Maths AS (A). 10 GCSEs — five 9s, five 8s.
Experience
Outside the lecture theatre.
2021 — 2024
Young Leader
Scouts (Beavers section)
- Planned and led weekly educational activities and games.
- Developed teaching technique and confident communication through responding to behavioural issues in the moment.
2023
Work experience placement
Tenon Engineering
- Worked alongside the design team — learnt how CAD is used in practice (tolerances, manufacturing trade-offs).
- Observed mill and lathe operation; assembled a rubber plastometer and wired a rheometer.
Toolkit
Languages & tools I reach for.
Languages
- C#
- C++
- MATLAB
- Python
- x86 Assembly
- SystemVerilog
Tools
- Autodesk Inventor
- KiCad
- Cadence OrCAD & PSPICE
- Unity
Outside engineering
Music, scouting, and a brass band.
I play trombone in the University of Bath big band and jazz band. At school I founded and played in the jazz band (2022–2024) and played in the orchestra and brass band.
I've been a member of the 1st Claygate Scout & Guide Marching Band since 2014. Highlights: leading the Disneyland Paris marching parade twice, playing at the Menin Gate remembrance service in Ypres twice, and the Lord Mayor's Parade (broadcast on BBC1).
Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh awards. Eleven years in Scouts — including two as a Scout in Denmark when my family relocated. Scouting's values of preparedness and resilience changed how I approach almost everything.