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Renton, Washington, United States

o Designed 250 lb. flywheel-powered hammering combat robot for the TV show Battlebotso Performed FEA and created CAD files in SolidWorks for titanium arm that accelerates at 2500 m/s2o Machined over 50 parts using 3-axis knee mill, band saw, belt sander, angle grinder, and drill press

Seattle, Washington, United States

o Developed spatial awareness system to prevent collisions between robotic arm and wing tanko Designed ROS framework and python script to fully define location of arm within its environmento Optimized precision and accuracy by evaluating performance with varying camera specifications

Greater Seattle Area

o Collaborated with students and faculty to increase diversity, inclusion, and equityo Secured funding to increase enrollment for engineering and diversity class

Greater Seattle Area

o Headed diverse team of five engineering students collaborating on a student-led project o Defined project goals, facilitated team communication, and created a project timelineo Developed effective and accessible method to implement non-planar 3D printing using batch scripts

Greater Seattle Area

o Modified design of flying electromagnetically-actuated robot to improve efficiencyo Programmed Arduino and designed electrical circuit in order to control the frequency of the wings o Tested system properties and compared them to values found using MATLAB and Python

Greater Seattle Area

o Partnered with an art professor to create 3D printed ceramic art pieces using Rhino and SolidWorkso Evaluated design in order to plan successful print considering the properties of clay and 3D printer

Seattle, Washington, United States

o Wrote Python script to characterize different levels of usage of 3D-printed prosthetic hando Conducted usability testing to gather accelerometer and flex sensor datao Built multiple iterations and prototypes of hand using SolidWorks