Grace Pan

Mechanical Engineer @ Applied Materials | Product Design + Mech E @ Stanford

Stanford, California, United States

About

Multidisciplinary designer and engineer passionate about transforming 2D concepts into physical, 3D products. Always making things, asking questions, and learning.

Experience

  • Mechanical Engineer II at Applied Materials
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Hardware engineering

  • Lead Instructor, Softgoods/Toy Design at DesignX
    Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 · 2 mos

    • Designed and taught the soft toy design curriculum, design thinking, and physical fabrication/sewing skills to foster confidence in hands-on design, making, and prototyping for six cohorts of 15+ elementary-age students. • Effectively guided ~100 projects from initial sketch designs to final soft plush toys in six weeks

  • Assistant Studio Manager at The Stanford d.school
    Sep 2024 - Mar 2025 · 7 mos

    • Organized, maintained, and inventoried supplies and resources in the Stanford d.school to facilitate student learning and making • Designed flyers and signage for the d.school studio and events • Implemented new types of prototyping and studio spaces in the d.school.

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern at Applied Materials
    Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos

    • Designed CAD simulation models and conducted thermal FEA to generate design solutions that reduced tool overheating. • Designed test fixtures for an O-ring alternative

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern at Applied Materials
    Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 · 4 mos

    • Optimized and validated a BKM wafer-centering process, via baseline and repeatability testing, that increases throughput and efficiency and reduces existing failure modes.