As a part-time member of WSU Formula Electric since March of 2022, I have gotten lots of firsthand engineering experience working on designing an electric racecar. I’m part of the chassis subteam tasked with designing mounts for the accumulator, engineering a steering column, and creating a dashboard that serves the driver’s needs whilst being easy to remove in the case of an emergency. Each part that I’ve designed has its own set of challenges such as having the accumulator mounts be able to withstand a certain amount of deformation from an external load. Throughout my time in this club, I have designed parts using Solidworks and presented them to my project managers and other advisors.

As a part-time intern at LSW Architects, I was tasked with redesigning a water-damaged library into a collaborative workspace for VIDA Coworking. This involved redoing the floor plan of the building to fit various spaces such as a daycare center, coworking space, and fitness center. During the internship, I discussed with the client what their specific needs and priorities were, then took a tour of the damaged building to see firsthand what the structure was like and how a recent flood had affected the lower level of the building. Then, with my fellow interns and Sketchup, two possible new floor plans were created and modeled. After the modeling was complete, the floor plans were compared to each other and presented to the client. Despite the internship being remote, I still learned a great deal about the design process and how to communicate with others in an engineering environment.