• Improved design of prosthetic hand using SolidWorks; made functional improvements to most components including palm, thumb, fingers and internal mechanism within the palm• Designed and prototyped an innovative 5-segment finger design using NinjaFlex, a type of 3D-printing filament that is flexible and holds its shape – improves grip, reduces assembly time by about 20 minutes• Designed and prototyped a thumb in which the proximal phalanx and metacarpal rotated in different directions –… Show more • Improved design of prosthetic hand using SolidWorks; made functional improvements to most components including palm, thumb, fingers and internal mechanism within the palm• Designed and prototyped an innovative 5-segment finger design using NinjaFlex, a type of 3D-printing filament that is flexible and holds its shape – improves grip, reduces assembly time by about 20 minutes• Designed and prototyped a thumb in which the proximal phalanx and metacarpal rotated in different directions – significantly more human-like than previous design Show less

• Designed and built a liquid nitrogen droplet-generating system and measured the evaporation rate of LN2 droplets, leader of 3 other graduate and undergraduate students – briefed project and results to NASA, earned a 4x increase in budget for future experiments• Worked with PhD student to build a small-scale rig for an experiment involving rapid cryogenic chill-down of a pipe and measuring temperature distribution – data was vital to the success of large-scale testing • Undergraduate… Show more • Designed and built a liquid nitrogen droplet-generating system and measured the evaporation rate of LN2 droplets, leader of 3 other graduate and undergraduate students – briefed project and results to NASA, earned a 4x increase in budget for future experiments• Worked with PhD student to build a small-scale rig for an experiment involving rapid cryogenic chill-down of a pipe and measuring temperature distribution – data was vital to the success of large-scale testing • Undergraduate crew member of NASA-sponsored Zero-G flights in Orlando, FL – helped run experiments in Zero-G environment and with general maintenance of the test setup Show less

Worked with a senior software developer to learn C and other relevant computer programming languages