• Developed acausal models of unit operations found in wastewater treatment plants including biological reactors (ASM1), settling units, and mixers using ModelingToolkit• Developed acausal models of PI controllers with discrete-event handling capabilities and control valves with continuous position bounding using ModelingToolkit for accurately modeling dynamic feedback-controlled systems

CHEG 3145 - Chemical Engineering Numerical Analysis• Held exam review sessions and office hours, graded weekly homework assignments

• Developed functions that automatically generate reduced-space model equations, objective function, and inequality constraints as standard numerically usable functions, making them compatible with EAGO in JuMP models• Demonstrated effectiveness of this reduced-space approach in a case study optimizing a chemical process to global optimality with 296x faster convergence, 3 OOM fewer iterations, and 4 OOM fewer memory allocations compared to an equivalent full-space optimization formulation

• Developed a thermocouple temperature data acquisition system that automatically logs and plots temperature reading using a Raspberry Pi and Python program• Managed Swagelok inventory, created a spreadsheet that automatically compares and compiles a list of additional parts necessary for a replica fuel cell build, saving thousands on excess parts• Conducted pressure decay leak tests on 10+ heat exchangers, analyzed pressure loss and identified points of failure, analyzed corrosion on 50+ platinum group metal catalyst meshes