Michael Shawver

Michael Shawver is a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with over 30 years of experience in product development and mechanical engineering across various industries such as consumer, medical, industrial, and defense.

His methodology involves synthesizing, evaluating, and tapping into previous design approaches to create the simplest solutions while minimizing costs and complexity.

Specializing in designing functional products, setting up manufacturing processes, and launching products into the market.

Skilled in mechanisms, machinery, robotics, CAD design using SolidWorks and Creo, FEA, thermal analysis, injection molded part design, sheet metal design, and manufacturing engineering.

Experienced in project management, hands-on prototyping, testing, and analysis.

Michael Shawver holds a BSME in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo with a focus on Kinematics, Robotics, FEA, and Heat Transfer.

Throughout his career, he has worked in various capacities at companies like Revolve Design, Polyera Corporation, Dance Biopharm, Google, Osterhout Design Group, VitalWear, UC Berkeley, Speck Design, and IDEO.