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ENGINEERING

BOEING COLLABORATION

September 2017 - May 2018

THE PROJECT:    An improvement to Boeing’s wire harness manufacturing process.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS:    Scrum Master; design, fabrication and testing of prototype components.


SKILLS:    Team Leadership; SolidWorks + PDM; Milling; 3D Printing; Laser Cutting; Tolerancing; Part Specification; Documentation.

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ROBOWHALE TAIL

November - December 2017

THE PROJECT:    Design of a mechanically actuated robotic whale tail with realistic shape and motion.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS:    Mechanical design of tail segments, structures and mechanisms.


SKILLS:    Mechanical Design; SolidWorks; Gear Specification; Buoyancy Calculations; FEA.

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ROBORAY

September - October 2017

THE PROJECT:    A robot inspired by the motion of a ray, able to traverse a pool and turn around before hitting the edge.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS:    Linkage design and fabrication; structure design; buoyancy calculations; some Arduino code; troubleshooting.


SKILLS:    Collaboration; SolidWorks; Buoyancy Calculations; Sensing + Actuation.

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CONVERTIBLE CELLO PROTOTYPE

May 2017

THE PROJECT:    A children’s cello prototype which converts from acoustic to electric and back.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS:    User research; materials research; physical and conceptual design; part specification; fabrication.


SKILLS:    User Oriented Design; Autodesk Fusion; Materials Research; Acrylic Shaping; Woodworking; Leadership + Collaboration.

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BANJO ACOUSTICS MODEL

April 2017

THE PROJECT:    An acoustics model of a banjo drum created in MatLab using partial differential equations.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS:    Equation and parameter selection; programming.


SKILLS:    MatLab; Mathematical Modeling; Partial Differential Equations.

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MODELING A GENEVA DRIVE

November - December 2015

THE PROJECT:    A model of the motion of a Geneva drive in MatLab based on dynamics principles.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS:    Equation and parameter selection; programming.


SKILLS:    MatLab; Mathematical Modeling; Dynamics.

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