Welcome to my portfolio website! My name is Cole Rutkowski and I am a passionate runner, climber, and mechanical engineering student at The University of Colorado Boulder. The making of this website has been driven by my passion for mechanical design and manufacturing, and I hope you find this page to be insightful, thoughtful, well-researched, and informative.
I often say running is my sport and climbing is my hobby. I have more passion for endurance sports, but obviously climbing is way cooler! As an engineering student, I find the design and production of climbing equipment to be incredibly fascinating. That makes this website somewhere between a passion project and a resume that combines my school, work, and climbing experience (as well as some additional side-projects).
I organized the entries to have the most notable projects at the top. I took the time to enter each report directly into the site rather than display a pdf or word document, but any pdf I have will be available for download at the bottom of the page. If you read just one report, be sure to check out How Cams Work!
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact me. This could be about mistakes in my reports, where I got my information, how to replicate a project, or employment.
Thanks for visiting my site!