I’m a final-year mechanical engineering student specialising in aerospace. I like getting stuck into a project, figuring out why something isn’t working and getting it to work.
Here’s what I’ve been working on, what went wrong along the way and what I learned from it.
Explore my work ↓
FROM THE WORKBENCH TO FLIGHT ↗01 / UAV SYSTEMSI’ve built a drone, programmed a robotic dinosaur and spent a lot of time working through simulation results. Click a project and I’ll walk you through it.
Project photograph ↗I led a six-person team building a multirotor UAV. After months of work, it nearly refused to fly on presentation day.
We achieved flight and image capture. I led the six-person team.
Research presentation ↗I used ANSYS and Python to investigate what a blade’s response could tell us about a crack, and where physical knowledge helped the predictions.
Global severity RMSE fell from 0.0412 to 0.00816, with location supplied.
Project CAD ↗My part in a group bioreactor design: the scaffold, pore sizing and how they fitted with the fluid system.
We developed a three-chamber CAD concept. I focused on the scaffold.
Conceptual illustration ↗We’re designing a solar-powered aircraft on an £800 target budget. I lead propulsion and help coordinate the team.
We’re working on the mission and propulsion concept
Project photograph ↗An Arduino-powered dinosaur that we built to react to its surroundings. I worked on the behaviour code and helped bring the hardware together.
Built prototype · Arduino control and interactive behaviour
A few shorter entries from my coursework. I’ll add more of the original work as I go.
Advanced CFD · Ongoing courseworkInvestigating pipe flow and how mesh resolution and discretisation affect the answer.
Heat Transfer · CourseworkUsing COMSOL to look at heat transfer through a fin and heat sink.
FEEG3001 · CourseworkA keel structural-analysis study from my finite element coursework.
Manufacturing & Materials · CourseworkLooking at how a Turgo turbine component could be manufactured.
Aerothermodynamics · CourseworkA nozzle-design study using the method of characteristics.
I’m Youssef. I grew up in Egypt, studied my first two years at Southampton’s Malaysia campus, and moved to the UK campus in September 2025.
I’m now finishing my MEng in Mechanical Engineering, specialising in aerospace. I enjoy the hands-on side as much as the analysis. Getting something to work is satisfying, but I also want to understand why it works.
Outside engineering, I swim and play university water polo. I also really enjoy cooking, so there’s usually something else I’m trying when I’m away from my laptop.
I started Senior Spark at Southampton Malaysia, a mentorship programme with over 40 students in its first run. I organised the matching and communication, as well as the events and certificates.
Before university, I worked as a freelance A-level and IGCSE maths and biology tutor in Alexandria. I taught over 15 students and handled the lesson planning, progress tracking and scheduling myself.