HI,I'M

PILAR

ZHANG

QIU.

FINAL YEAR MENG

DESIGN ENGINEERING STUDENT

AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

I am a creative designer, thinker and maker who is passionate about product development, especially in the biomedical engineering field..

I particularly enjoy user-centred design and bringing meaningful devices to life through

RP techniques and coding.

01 skills*

MY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL IN DIFFERENT AREAS

* Skills proficiency relative to each other

CAD / RENDERING

RAPID PROTOYPING

WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

ELECTRONICS

DIGITAL DESIGN

SKETCHING

CODING

ROBOTICS

ARDUINO / RPI

02 TRAJECTORY

FEBRUARY 2018

SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING DESIGN

MAY 2018

THE CLOUD |

CISCO IDEAL LONDON INSTALLATION

PANEL CHOICE - 3RD INNOVATION PRIZE

Through engineering analysis and user research, I developed and manufactured a sustainable packaging concept to trigger a change in the attitudes of consumers and producers towards food-related waste.

Innovation Demonstration Experience Project

The Cloud is a piece of art and a medium of expression. Depending on the user's hand gestures, it translates these mindset and emotions into more comprehensible visual outputs, helping people understand the effects of their body language on others.

JULY - MID-SEPTEMBER 2018

BLADEBUG | ROBOTIC START-UP

Intern at Start-Up Company

Full-time intern at BladeBug. This robotic start-up focuses on wind turbine blades maintenance and inspection of leading edge erosion through hexapod robots.

AUGUST - OCTOBER 2018

LEVEL UP! COMPETITION |

INTERACTIVE PUZZLE BOX

Imperial College Advanced Hackspace Competition

By the use of an interactive storytelling, the player will have to go through five complex puzzles in order to restore the energy of this mysterious crashed artefact.

APRIL - SEPTEMBER 2019

TG0 | 3D CONTROL INTERFACES

Junior Design Engineer

Full-time design engineer. TG0 collaborates with high-profile, international firms to create seamless and more intuitive sensors that mimic capacitive and resistive mechanical sensors, all using a single, flexible and mouldable material.

Visit their website at: https://tg0.co.uk/