DB Donovan Burke
Donovan Burke

Mechanical engineering
& applied mechanics

University of Pennsylvania

Donovan Burke

Design. Build. Refine.Selected work

Turning engineering ideas
into real hardware.

I am a mechanical engineering student at Penn, working across propulsion, EV infrastructure, and assistive devices. I care about the details that make a design work outside the CAD model.

About me

Selected work / 2024–2026

Design in practice.

All Projects

01 / Propulsion · Project Wavefront

Project Wavefront

Refining Project Wavefront's thermal-management system and water-cooled RDRE components for fall 2026 hot-fire testing.

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Afterburner CAD render showing the assembled microturbojet afterburner design Afterburner CAD render from the SOLIDWORKS viewport Afterburner component render showing mechanical layout details Afterburner component render showing subsystem geometry Afterburner component render showing fabrication-oriented design details Afterburner component render showing internal geometry Afterburner component render showing fuel and chamber hardware Afterburner component render showing a detailed part view Afterburner CAD render showing final design details

02 / Propulsion · Penn Jet Propulsion

Microturbojet Afterburner

Leading afterburner subsystem design across fuel injection, flameholding, ignition, nozzle, and combustion-chamber geometry.

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