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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Designed, built, and programmed a walking quadruped foam-robot using innovative construction and foam casting- Experimentally evaluated soft robotic actuator using Instron universal testing machine and video data processed with MATLAB- Designed and fabricated physical artifacts to calibrate computationally generated machine knitting patterns - Collaborated with Foam Robotics Lab to design, fabricate, and experimentally evaluate Hall effect sensor in foam robots- Presented a poster at ICRA 2020 workshop for work developing modular mold design system for soft, flexible foam robot

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Summers 2017 and Summer 2018 - Computationally designed CNC stitching (embroidery) for precision stiffening of fabrics - Designed experiments, built jigs, analyzed data, embroidered fabric with material 8x stiffer than base- Collaborated with graphics professors to advance computational embroidery research for publication and patent application: Precision Control Through Stitching For Material Properties Of Textiles App #16902056- Presented talk on research findings at MIT for Symposium on Computational Fabrication 2018

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

- Collaborated with welders and assemblers to conceptualize and machine fixtures to aid manufacturing processes- Physically tested and evaluated iterative designs to optimize performance of fuel injector metering sets- Comprehensive immersion in manufacturing environment to learn technical processes for part qualification

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

- Collaborated with 5 team members to prototype case erector - Strengthened design specifications for remote center of motion mechanism- Implemented sheet metal design for guarding and drip trays on updated accumulator for Tropicana- Designed crane arm attachment for distributed load carrying of sheet metal skeletons