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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Oversee mechanical operations including analysis, assembly, and testing for robotic arm, drive, and science subteams. - Communicate with University of Maryland faculty and departments, funding and budgeting with the Aerospace Department, sponsors, the Mars Society, other outside organizations, and planning of recruiting and internal events.- Led two weeks of daily recruitment efforts around campus resulting in over three times the number of applicants to the team compared to previous years and more than doubled team size from previous year.- Led interest meetings and a weeklong selection process called Challenge Week where prospective members are given impossible technical challenges to test their intuition, problem solving, and self-discipline.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Led 9 undergraduate engineers to design, assemble, and test a custom chassis, rocker-bogie suspension, and propulsion system of a rover capable of traversing uneven terrain and obstacle heights up to 30 cm.- Designed differential bar and suspension plates with tolerances for for CNC milling and water jet cutting respectively.- Printed custom hole guides to increase manufacturing efficiency of circular suspension linkages.- Submitted a 7-page report and 5-minute video explaining all subsystems of the rover for SAR to the Mars Society.- Filled BOM via McMaster and other vendors with consideration for tolerances, materials, and budget of $22,000.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Presented at PDR in mid November with chassis design and considerations before alumni for potential improvements.- Designed a sheet metal rover chassis with interchangeable modules for a robotic arm and science box in Solidworks.- Communicated with electrical, robotic arm, and science teams to ensure compatibility with their requirements.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Constructed 3 toleranced engineering drawings for ring gear, cutterhead frame with welds, and fishtail components.- Adjusted cutterhead welds and scraper designs to >3 SF when tunnel bore digs through soil.- Designed a low-profile 18” to 36” height adjustable cart for a 2,000 lb tunnel bore machine under $3,000.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Supported My Best Friend Maria, Picking Petals, and Spectral Reflections by setting up equipment and acting

New Albany, Ohio, United States

- Inspected plastic bottle samples for throat and thread dimensions, wall thickness, leakage, top-load, color, dents, scratches, cloudiness, strings, overflow capacity, and drop test to ensure they met customer specifications.- Developed 30-second sketch ideas for new 1 gallon restaurant kitchen bottles.- Updated bottle designs and technical drawings in SolidWorks.

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

- Modeled a plexiglass ramp in Solidworks to allow rubber rings to slide from intake to outtake systems- Conceptualized different designs for a rising platform to raise rings from the ramp to a flywheel

Fulton, Maryland, United States

- Headed a group of 4 high school students while having remote and hybrid meetings during the height of the pandemic- Programmed PID control for high-precision ball shooting into 8ft elevated target with vision system for alignment

Fulton, Maryland, United States

- Controlled a robot by utilizing sensor values and Xbox controllers in Java

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

- Taught Arduino, EV3, Java, and Python to 4th - 8th graders, developing their passion for STEM

B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

Activities and Societies: UMD Loop & Veritas Short Films

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: FTC Robotics, PLTW Program, Tech Honor Society