Lucas Krippendorff
Happy you're here! I'm a second-year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania, working at the intersection of mechanical and electronic design: analog, digital, and everything in between. What I enjoy most is navigating the tradeoffs between functionality, complexity, and cost.
Experience
FRC Team 5557
Mechanical Design
Jul 2022 — Jun 2024
- CAD (Onshape)
- Machining
- Mechanical Design
- Team Collaboration
3D Chimera
Engineering Intern
Jun — Jul 2025
- 3D Printing
- Prototyping
- Material Testing
- Printer Calibration
SubVysion
Hardware Intern
Mar 2026 — Present
- Product Design
- Hardware Integration
- Computer Vision
- 3D Mapping
Projects
What I've Built
From a 6-DOF robotic arm with custom gearboxes to a CNN image classifier. each project started with a question I wanted to answer.
About
Background
I'm an Electrical Engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science, though the path here was anything but direct.
Growing up, I was building computers whenever I could and doing mechanical design for my FRC robotics team, 5557 Bbr8ers. Two very different things, but I never saw them that way. When it came time for college, I chose Physics precisely because it didn't force me to pick. It sits underneath everything. Penn had other plans. Getting involved with clubs like PennAir pulled me back into hands-on mechanical work, and then my Electricity & Magnetism course reminded me why I'd always been drawn to electronics. By the end of my first year, I knew I wanted to study EE.
I don't think of that as settling. If anything, the decision made sense because I realized I didn't have to give anything up. I could anchor my studies in EE while spending my time on projects where electrical, mechanical, and software thinking all have to work together. That's what most of my work reflects.