Grace Zhang Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Lead a group of high school students to design and build a 6-pole DC motor capable of generating a usable amount of power by educating students about the basics of motors, physics, and mechanical and electrical design.
• Instructed 40 high school students in the mechanical, hardware, and software design and fabrication of a 3D printed prosthetic hand, printed circuit board, and Arduino code responsive to sensors and electromyography.
• Designed an Arduino compatible microcontroller development board that adheres to IEC 60601 standards for student use.

• Collaborate with a team of 50+ peers and lead a group of 12 electrical engineering students to design an innovative semi-autonomous rover to compete in the annual University Rover Challenge hosted by The Mars Society.
• Design and fabricate the layout of the printed circuit board in Autodesk EAGLE and write the PIC32MX530F128H microcontroller code in C for various sensor, power, and logic boards for rovers (Science subteam’s power.
• Collaborate with the Controls Computer Science subteam to ensure electrical support for required functionality (Inverse Kinematics, Computer Vision).
• Recruit, onboard, and mentor new members as well as host weekly training sessions.
• Communicate with other subteams to determine the design requirements of electrical components.

• Identified, contextualized, and solved a long-term existing design bug that affects the performance of all publicly sold Ketra bulbs using a C#-based testing tool and its C-based control module, and presented to Ketra.
• Interfaced with the mechanical engineers on staff to create a Python-based data-parser for a 2000+ entry device database in order to convert entries to a format suitable for temperature testing during development.
• Participated in the Summer 2020 ALT EXperience to draft a project proposal in a team of 6 and presented it to senior engineers and management.