Pearl Lutwama

Dedicated and passionate graduate of BEng Mechanical Engineering with a drive to pursue the vastness of the industry. I love to understand how things work, as well as leverage my knowledge to link my hobbies with my career. Always looking onwards and upwards, with the drive to learn from mistakes and make better outcomes. 

My primary goal is to expand my knowledge and gain skills, as well as embrace the world and all its wonderful machinations.

1. Vacation Student Worker at Flender Pty Ltd 
   Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
   I completed my degree industrial work by conducting a Mechanical engineering-centric project within the company. I assisted with the update and redesign of a gear-system skid plate. This includes calculations on viability, creating a full 3D model via SOLIDWORKS, as well as drawing creation and preliminary pricing.
2. Vacation Student Worker at Flender Pty Ltd 
   Jan 2020
   I commenced my degree industrial work by gaining insights into mechanical and electrical drive systems. Calculations on motors, gearboxes and other systems occurred for review, as well as workshop experience.
    

Recent Bachelor's graduate with a degree in BEng Mechanical Engineering. 

• Final Year research project on "The Evaluation of Temporary Tattoo Paper (TTP) for Digital Image Correlation (DIC) speckle pattern application." -- Achieved 87%

Attended High School at Pretoria High School for Girls, with a National Senior Certificate result of 6 distinctions and an average of 82.7%.

• Academic Half-Colours, 12th grade
• Anne Van Zyl Prize for English, 12th grade