SAMPLES OF MY ENGINEERING WORK
About
I grew up in Portland, Oregon and did both my undergrad and Master's at the Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder. Both degrees were in Mechanical Engineering, and for my M.S. I focused mainly in the areas of robotics and product design. Two years ago, I moved to Boston, MA and have been beginnig to set up roots here! I'm currently working at AeroShield Materials doing R&D work to help develop a repeatable and scalable production process for a very unique material.
Even since I was a kid, I've always felt strongly drawn towards engineering and building. My interest has always been on the hardware side of things, but lately I've been trying to get my feet wet with software to expand my skillset and to enable me to do a broader range of work and projects, however I feel most at home getting my hands dirty and turning wrenches! I love DIY projects and building things at home, so check out the personal projects section for some examples.
This website is a collection of my personal, professional and educational work in engineering, design and tinkering.
Featured Projects
Automated Solvent Exchange
Design-build of a system designed to fully automate a highly time consuming manual step in the aerogel production process. Process Engineering, EE, ME, and programming: this had a bit of everything!
NOAA-ESRL
Starting with a capstone project during my undergrad and continuing with an internship, this project was to stabilize a Lidar unit on an ocean research vessel in rough seas.
Go Prosthetics
I spent the better part of high school and undergrad working on this project in my spare time. 3D printed affordable prosthetics in a fraction of the time to fit. Check it out!
Undergrad and Graduate Projects
Mechatronics
This project got interrupted by COVID, nonetheless we made an autonomous airsoft firing robot navagating with OpenCV based line following. Raspberry Pi + Arduino
Graduate design for manufacturability / assembly course, with a significant re-design of a standard locking doorknob for injection molding as the final project.
DFM / DFA
3D Bioprinting/ Biofabrication
Mostly a review / research course covering current techniques, but involved some interesting projects designing custom devices using my own MRI data in a slicer.
MD5 Cold Weather NVG Mount
Project working with retired and active duty marines and special forces to design a cold weather night vison goggle mount. CAD / Mfg engineer role in the project.
I have many more projects to check out -------->
Professional Experience and Internships
AeroShield - Massachusetts
Where I'm currently working: I have learned a ton from AeroShield that I wouldn't have otherwise ever learned, such as process engineering and the fundamentals of what it takes to bring a technology out of the lab and into production
NVTS - Rhode Island
Worked as a freelance engineer while finishing school, mostly remote during COVID. Mainly CAD, troubleshooting, hardware design, a little software (Python)
NOAA - Colorado
Internship finishing a capstone project. Mechanical design, mill, lathe, wiring, LabVIEW, MatLab, testing & validation and installation of hardware.
NVTS - Rhode Island
Engineering internship. Mainly assisted with CAD (Solidworks) and mechanical design tasks (optical alignment, thermal management, sealing).
GearHeads Associates - Oregon
Internship at a product design firm. This was my first experience seeing the design thinking process and it opened my eyes to how these firms work.
Personal / Fun Projects
AD Arm
This is a project I'm just starting on. I am currently nearly done with the CAD and I have printed a few components so far. See the most recent post in the blog about where I'm trying to go with this
Mother of all Enclosures
This printer enclosure has been a work in progress for months... but it's finally done! I have replaced my cheap printer I began with, and now have 2 Prusas! Temp control, ventilation, soundproofing - this is the Cadilac of enclosures
D-O Robot
This project is on hold while I try to get better at the fundamentals of ROS and computer vision. The CAD is complete, parts 3D printed and the bot drives! - But I have a long way to go!
Plant Shelf
Finished Jan 2021. All boards and joints cut, glued and varnished in my 1 bedroom apartment. Custom design with Japanese aesthetic inspiration. Credit to my girlfriend too!
Land Rover Camping Bed
My girlfriend and I got tired of tent camping in freezing Colorado, so the camping bed was formed! This is the second iteration and is a plywood cantileaver design. Very comfy.
The Big Brown Bass
This is the final installment of my suitcase speaker series and is the highest quality. 5 hour battery life, bluetooth, and a subwoofer. It's seriously loud.
The Orange Attack
This bright orange 1960's suitcase converted for my sister is the third installment in the series. It probably had the most unique look and features bluetooth + 4 hours battery life.
The Red Rocker
The second suitcase speaker built for my dad out of a 1970's piece of luggage. Like the first one, all speakers were salvaged. This thing is very loud, but needed bluetooth.
The Mesh Monster
Speaker Stand
Inspired by a cool shelf that I saw at a hipster resturant in Portland. This shelf was built to hold my audio projects.
The Mesh Monster
Like the Radiola Rocker, this enclosure was also collecting dust in my grandfather's garage, so we snagged it and threw in a subwoofer! Bad sound quality but it looks cool. ~1930's
The Radiola Rocker
Right side of the photo, this is a loudspeaker housing from 1929 found in my grandpa's garage. Cleaned rust, restored to original colors, added subwoofer (also stolen from grandpa).
The Case of Bass
A joint project between my dad and I for my birthday back in highschool. This thing has been used hundreds of times throughout college and it still keeps going even now, and unfortunately the cool name is snagged from a company I saw building these things
Ancient History
Scumbot
Highschool robotics project building a robot meant to clean up rivers of invasive weeds. I have since seen very similar designs cleaning trash from waterways, a much better use!
Wall Framing System
My dad was in construction for most of the time I was living in Portland, and back when I was in highschool he designed a framing system and I made some significant contributions.
1955 T-Bird
My dad and I's project basically as far back as I can remember. My great grandfather's car was crashed in the 70's and was stored as boxes of bolts. Ground up restoration.