About me

Hello, my name is Zoltán Marcsek. I graduated as an Electrical Engineer specializing in Embedded Systems at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). As a student in a double-degree program, I have also obtained a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The full text of my B.Sc. thesis is available here.

From March 2021 until August 2022, I worked as an embedded software engineer at a small, dynamic engineering firm. My main project has been developing firmware for a railway vibration measurement device that can forecast failures, aiding preventive maintenance.

In February 2021 I joined the BME Solar Boat Team, the solar-powered boat racing team at my university. Since then, we have attended the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge and the Wildauer Solarbootregatta in Germany, where we placed third. I was elected as the leader of the electrical group starting January 2022, and in this role, I coordinated the complete restructuring of the boat's electrical system, as well as arranged multiple industry partnerships until August 2022.

Since September 2022 I have been pursuing my M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zürich, specializing in Systems and Control. Already in October I joined ARIS, a student-led rocketry association at ETH Zürich, where I started working as an avionics engineer at project BERNOULLI. In this project we united multiple earlier projects of ARIS, designing a rocket with a hybrid rocket engine, equipped with a guided recovery system, aiming for the 9000m height at EuRoC 2023. After the end of the project, I joined NICOLLIER, a continuation of BERNOULLI aiming to streamline the system and focused on advancing the guided recovery technology of ARIS.
In March 2024 I became a coach for the team, and I continued this in September with the next starting project, HERMES. During all three cycles I was heavily involved in the PCB and system design process, and held workshops for new members learning PCB design, and mentored them throughout this journey. I was also elected as the main infrastructure coordinator for the avionics workspace, where I get to design an electronics work environment I imagined.

In October 2024 I started my M.Sc. thesis at the Center for Project-based Learning (PBL), in which I am developing an IoT monitoring system for high-voltage circuit breakers, to aid preventive maintenance.