Mechanical engineer. I design hardware for renewable energy. The part I like most is working out why something isn't quite working yet.
An inline inerter-spring-damper device that cuts snap loads on wave energy converter mooring lines and harvests energy instead of burning it as heat.
DOE SURE Program, Energy Harvesting and Mechatronics Research Lab, Prof. Lei Zuo, University of Michigan
Pneumatically actuated cryogenic fill valve and separating QD plug for a 24 ft liquid bipropellant rocket.
Michigan Aeronautical Science Association (MASA), University of Michigan
A self-directed machine design project: a court-portable feeder that serves a repeatable shot, built around a single-motor iris feed mechanism.
Personal project
Turning post-consumer compostable cutlery into 3D printing filament, and testing whether the parts are actually usable.
RISE Program, Prof. Dan Cooper's lab, University of Michigan
A graphene, PDMS and aluminium trilayer that opens and closes itself under light, and six blade geometries to find out what drives the motion.
UROP, Prof. Young Geun Park's lab, University of Michigan