Index / Projects
Project index.
Team programmes and individual engineering work — each with its own detailed case study.
Prometheus Eco Racing — NTUA
Head of Mechanical Engineering
Prometheus Eco Racing
NTUA's Shell Eco-marathon team, competing in the Battery Electric Urban Concept class. Head of Mechanical Engineering since September 2025, owning all nine mechanical subsystems of PYRFOROS IV — 7th in the Urban Concept Battery-Electric category, and Vehicle Design Award winner, at Shell Eco-marathon Europe 2026.
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Concept & Architecture
A point-mass lap-simulation energy budget, 48% drag and 26% mass, run before any geometry existed — the enclosed-wheel packaging decision and the four architecture changes it produced.
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Monocoque & Composites
A load-bearing CFRP sandwich shell at 2.1 mm average thickness — RVE-homogenised laminate, four regional ply stacks, five load cases at Tsai–Wu RF ≥ 1.0.
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Aerodynamics & CFD
Cd 0.111 on a 0.882 m² frontal area — the drag audit that justified enclosing four wheels, lift logged as a cost, and what a managed CFD service will not disclose.
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Suspension & Steering
Sprung where the last car was rigid — −65% peak chassis load, dampers characterised across five settings on a shock dyno, 100% Ackermann, 30 of 30 parts spared.
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Motor & Drivetrain — Mechanical Design
Mechanical design of the in-house drive motor and its 6:1 belt drivetrain — lap-simulation-sized, −20 kg powertrain mass vs. the prior generation.
Case study →TUCer — Technical University of Crete
Team Manager & Lead Mech. Engineer
TUCer Team
Urban Concept Hydrogen prototype for the Shell Eco-marathon. Three roles across six seasons — ergonomics & 3D manufacturing, analysis & design, then team leadership — from a 6th-place finish at Nogaro 2023 through to the final SEM 2025 campaign.
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CFRP Composite Wheel
Single-piece tubeless carbon-fibre wheel — RVE/FEA-validated to Tsai–Wu RF 1.54, -19.2% assembly mass. Best Thesis Award.
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Wheel Test Bench
Custom instrumented rig with Arduino PID firmware — measured -44%/-59% Wh/km and lower rotational inertia for the new wheel.
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Composite Curing Oven
Simulink-modelled curing oven, built and used for the wheel's real cure cycles.
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Metal AM Motor Mount
A 316L printed mount that arrived 12.7× outside tolerance — 3D-scan diagnosis in GOM Inspect, and the specification checklist it produced.
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Transmission System Redesign
Generative-designed motor mount and driven gear fixing a mesh-misalignment wear problem — -56% gear mass, -91% mount displacement.
Case study →Bodyshell Analysis
Structural analysis of the existing bodyshell, feeding directly into the attach/detach system redesign.
Bodyshell Attach/Detach System
New attach/detach mechanism for the bodyshell, designed from the bodyshell analysis findings.
Brake Pedal Assembly
New brake pedal assembly design.
Steering Wheel — Ergonomic Redesign (v2)
Second iteration of the ergonomic steering wheel, refining the 2019–2020 design.
Door Handle Mechanism
New door handle mechanism — design and implementation.
Steering Wheel — Ergonomic Redesign (v1)
Ergonomic design and structural FEA for a new steering wheel — the first of two iterations.
3D-Printed Driver's Seat
Full design, 3D-print manufacturing, and testing loop for a new driver's seat.
Bodyshell Lighting Concept
Forward-looking concept design for future bodyshell lighting systems — not built or tested.
Individual projects
Solar Racing Car
Coordinator and mechanical designer on a five-person school team — pine-frame chassis, €3,700 budget, race win Jul 2019, and a gearbox taken to twenty revisions.
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Hydroponic Farm Robot
“Project Persephone” — FEA-validated sensor-controlled hydroponic system, 1st place WRO Hellas, 4th place at WRO 2018 Thailand.
Case study →EBEC / CBEC Competitions
Three results across BEST's engineering-competition series, including an autonomous firefighting prototype, BEST Chania 2025.
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