Older Experiences/Projects

As a member of AeroNU's Fixed Wing, we worked on designing a plane to compete in in SAE Aero Design's Micro class.

This involved designing and optimizing a plane to have the highest cargo-to-structure weight ratio, as well as a compact collapsible footprint.

Due various factors, including Coronavirus, we were not able to finish our design or participate in the competition. A previous design is shown on the left

College is many students' first time away from home and living independently. Parties & exploring the city can leave students in dangerous situations. However, tracking apps can lead to an invasion of privacy. Safety Band allows for students to discreetly call for help, while maintaining their privacy, and their parents to keep their peace of mind knowing their child is safe.

By participating in HSC, I was able to learn about both the engineering and business sides of a project and pitch an idea.

Cornerstone is a year long course all Northeastern engineers partake in. This course involves various projects, including but not limited to projectile launching and light-seeking robots.

Soft skills involved in cornerstone include group work, engineering design and engineering ethics.

Hard skills include C++/Arduino, 3D printing & Laser cutting (for rapid prototyping). Software included Solidworks 3D modeling, AutoCad, and MATLAB.

Moving parts endure wear and tear until their mechanisms fail. This device, a magnetohydrodynamic drive, uses electromagnetic fields and nothing else to induce flow in an ion-filled fluid, such as salt water. By developing a new method of velocity measurement via motion-video analysis, data was collected and analyzed to observe the impact of varying power & salinity on energy conversion efficiency.

This work was presented at the 2019 Connecticut Science & Engineering fair. Honors include:

• CASE • PepsiCo Urban School Challenge Awards with IBM Finalist

• United Technologies Corporation Award

• Office of Naval Research- U.S. Navy / U.S. Marine Corps

Every year, FIRST puts out a challenge for high school robotics teams across the world to solve. Given this challenge & rules, they must build a robot to score as many points as possible, completing tasks like climbing structures, lifting exercise balls, stacking foam cubes to form patterns, balancing on plates, manipulating balls/cubes and doing pull-ups.

Through my high school experience, FTC's taught me various skills. My four years on team 5518's Dutchman's Derivatives taught me both soft and hard skills. Soft skills include teamwork, time & resource management, and Leadership. Hard skills include documentation, CAD, 3D printing and Mechanical Design.

Accomplishments include making it to the state level every year, as well as a myriad of other awards such as Think, Promote, Motivate, Control.

2018-2019, the year I was Team Captain , we were given 3rd runner up for the Inspire awards, FIRST's highest award.

This group research project spanned two years, and comprised of two phases.

Phase one involved designing a vertical-axis micro wind turbine. Various designs were designed in CAD and fabricated using 3D printing. They were then tested in CFD & experimentally, both in a wind tunnel and field testing. Collected data was then analyzed, and resulting conclusions were then used to create a final, more efficient turbine.

This work was presented at the 2017 Connecticut Science & Engineering fair. Honors include:

• Pepsico Physical Sciences Awards, 1st Place, Physical Sciences Senior High Team

• People’s United Bank Mathematics Awards, with ATOMIC, High School Finalist

• CASE Urban School Challenge Awards with Aetna, IBM, & Travelers, Senior High Finalist

• Energize CT/eesmarts Alternative/Renewable Energy Awards, High School Finalist

Phase two built on the work of phase one. When a turbine spins in the wind, the airflow patterns, or wake, behind the turbine show areas of higher speed. This phase focused on placing multiple turbines together, so that secondary turbines lied in the wake of primary turbines, allowing for them to perform together synergistically. Through smoke, simulated-wind-tunnel & CFD testing, an optimal configuration was sought after & found.

This work was presented at the 2018 Connecticut Science & Engineering fair. Honors include:

• Lockheed Martin Physical Sciences Awards 1st Place Physical Sciences

• Barnes Aerospace Applied Technology Awards Finalist

• Future Sustainability Awards Eversource /energizeCT 2nd Place

• UTC Aerospace Systems Engineering Awards 3rd Place- Engineering

• CT Architecture Foundation Award The William M. Mack, AIA Award

My second engineering internship was at Barnes Aerospace in Windsor, CT.

My main project was inspired by a time study of the shop floor, in order to optimize operators' processes. I noticed that operators spent a sizeable amount of time checking that parts were seated properly in the machine before machining.

I then spent several weeks in the R&D department designing a system that used electrical conductivity to check that the part was firmly seated. By referencing dimensions in part mount files, I was able to design a 3D-printed mount that touched the contact points.

I also designed an electrical system that used different colored LEDs to indicate status. By the end of my internship, I had produced a working prototype, that would ensure the accuracy of parts costing upwards of $5000

My work is shown in my engineering notebook.

My first engineering internship was at ACMT, a small aerospace company in Manchester, CT.

This experience taught me various things, such as the flow of the shop floor, as well as how to read & process work drawings, as well as some work in Microsoft Excel.