Luke Caffarey

I'm from Raleigh, NC

Map of the eastern United States with a red pin on Raleigh, North Carolina

Montessori School of Raleigh was my middle school and Sanderson High School was my high school.

A Montessori classroom, with my six year old face badly pasted onto one of the kids

2022 to 2024

riding 911s

Wake County EMS cadet

i wanted to be a doctor;

but the hours were too long.

Wake County EMS Cadet Program class of 2022, with me circled in red at the back

Aug 2024

NC State

B.S. mechanical engineering, economics minor

Dec 2024 to Apr 2025

joined a fusion lab

FPAC Lab, undergraduate researcher

Python peak detection on KSTAR reactor data, pulled from South Korea

i wanted to do renewable energy;

but fusion is purely research, and i wanted to make an impact i can see.

Aug 2025

founded Windpack

NC State's Collegiate Wind Competition team

2026

built a blade dynamometer

tests blades to failure before competition, not at it

May to Aug 2026

interned at GE Vernova

data analytics, system engineering

walked into a role with no assignment and walked out with five delivered projects

start of junior year

i started reading

I point it out because I really believe reading often is the best way to take in a lot of info.

now

Machine Shop TA

MAE senior design, NC State

training students in the shop 10 hours a week, specializing in welding

now

CAMAL undergrad researcher

Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics

helping make metal printing powder, and built SEM Powder QC to check it

now

Windpack President

grew it to 35 members, and placed 6th of 10 at our first nationals

windpack.club

now

Mechanical Engineering Student

graduating May 2028

I want to help scale metal printing into factories, and in the future, onto the Moon.

Windpack

SEM Powder QC

Lunar Regolith Viscosity

Balancing Cube

Blade Dynamometer

Compositionally Challenged

Pumpkin

Wind Turbine Organization and Key Technologies