Engineering Projects
The following projects are highlights from my work in classes,
and research. When available, links are included to provide more
technical information about the project, such as in reports
and presentations. Please don't hesitate to
contact me if you would like to discuss my work in more detail.
Motorized Robotic Camera
[Engineering Design Course Project at Duke University]
Current Task:
Develop a robotic vehicle to remotely survey fish populations at the Duke Marine Lab.
Application:
Assist in research of marine populations and by automating processes and data collection.
Skills Obtained:
Machine design with customer interaction, manufacturing, watertight construction, testing buoyancy and stability, modeling (SolidWorks), collaboration on a team for a large project.
More Information:
Poster with description of mechanical components.
Precision Desktop Lathe
[2.72 Design of Machine Elements Project at MIT]
Task Completed:
Designed and manufactured a precision desktop lathe able
to cut with a <50-micron repeatability after surviving three "death
tests": dropping the machine from waist height, hitting the spindle
with a sledgehammer (where the workpiece is held), and standing on the
cross-slide of the lathe while actuating its motion in both horizontal directions.
Application:
Advances in industries such as medicine and electronics often
require precise components with low tolerances.
Skills Obtained:
Design of machine elements, considering stiffness, flexure design for
precision movement (using
Jon Hopkins's FACT method), experiment and modeling, functional requirements.