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• Defined high-level design criteria as well as established a comprehensive timeline for subsystem completion
• Providing guidance and assisting REs with research, calcs, system implementation & integration, and testing & validation
• Developed heat transfer calculators for battery cooling & radiator efficacy, as well as an EV point mass lap time simulator
• Optimized the capacity of our custom battery pack with the implementation of regenerative braking, integrating such with an easier maintainable service section, higher efficiency air cooling system, and external.

• Researched and integrated a PC radiator and marine pump tractive cooling system for our team’s first EV car
• Oversaw a new member project for designing and manufacturing a custom swirl pot and catch can, with NPT bungs & fittings
• Led the creation of the team’s first electric vehicle charging cart with custom deadman brakes & a hydraulic lifting table

• Car Stand Project
• Designed 4 iterations of 2 dynamic car jacks and 4 static stands to lift and maintain our Mark7 vehicle 3ft. in the air for assembly and repair
• Reduced original $4.5k car jack design to $1.5k through extensive performance and cost analysis

• Overseeing three new 30lb. Teams, providing guidance to 6 new subteam leads on the comprehensive design cycle
• Designed and led technical/management trainings to set the groundwork for effective project management
• Spearheaded new Legacy team to revitalize old, 12lb-60lb robots as well as a new Autonomous division
• Developed scripts for drivetrain motor & esc selection, weapon energy impact calculations, & overall battery sizing

• Defined subteam-level design criteria while efficiently allocating resources and delegating manpower
• Increased subteam recruitment and retainment, doubling subteam and project size by the end of the year
• Designed shock isolation armor shell and topology-optimized baseplate chassis, minimizing weight and costs while conforming to new omnidirectional Kiwi drive and electronics constraints.

• Rebranded organization’s overarching theme with better integration of its 5 technical projects and subsidiary committees
• Graphics, flyer, and banner creator
• Shirt designer for the organization’s various technical projects and organizational merchandise

• Streamlined Wall-E superstructure design and subsystem mounting with use of weldments and standard profiles such as 80/20

• Designed, researched, and manufactured custom flywheel doubling as clutch mechanism interface for flywheel flipper robot, which won Innovation Award at Sacremento Battle Bot Competition 2023

• Dispositioned dozens of Requests for Engineering Orders, redlining drawings and performing cost analyses for each
• Identified trends and recurrences across heavy hitter Non-Conformance reports, including the KC46, F35, & F18
• Created a template & guidelines for Acceptance Test Procedures based on Test Software needs in a team of 5
• Led a team of 7 to phase out Hex Chrome coating processes, tagging over 1200 parts & developing a custom search tool
• Helped design a detailed cross-functional swim lane flowchart encompassing the whole actuation product design cycle

• 1 of 8 Engineering New Student Advisors assisting in the orientation and transition of incoming UCLA students, including both first-year and transfer students
• With a total of 11 first-year and 9 transfer orientation sessions, enforced suitable courseload and class sequences for over 150+ engineering students
• Albeit counseling all engineering majors, specialized in the advisement of CS and EE students.
• Familiarized students with UCLA academic requirements as well as various on-campus technical clubs and opportunities

• Led workshops teaching best practices in Solidworks and CAD design, as well as preparing students for official Solidworks associate certification
• Developed a 6-week curriculum for smaller technical organizations with no implemented CAD training

• Led rebranding of the organization’s name change and brand guide, refurbishing with a new logo, colors, and supporting elements
• Created social media graphics

• Revamped and refined the organization’s styling elements to be more easily modifiable
• Created social media graphics

• Mentored high school students on FRC robotics fundamentals from CAD to manufacturing to visual productions
• Remotely gave feedback & redlined the current productions team’s content creation while advising on best practices in design

• Managed social media graphics for meetings, events, and STEM inspiration
• Created an organizational system that all team members could easily use to catalog and queue social media posting

• Led design of 2022 Robot climber subsystem as well as 2020 & 2021 Robot superstructure subsystem; overseeing the whole prototyping, design, integration, manufacturing, & assembly process.
• Created a standardized naming scheme and inventory system for purchased stock and COTS
• Taught new members efficient operation of heavy machinery including: machining mills, lathes, CNCs, laser cutters, and 3d printers to manufacture robot parts
• Specialized operation in Grizzly tabletop machining mill and Universal ILS laser cutter

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Class Rank: 1 | Unweighted Gpa: 4.00 | Weighted Gpa: 4.82

Activities and Societies: FRC Robotics Team | Math Honors Society | Networking Club | California Scholarship Federation | Financial.