Smart Chessboard

Overview The Chessboard consists of the following: Motivation For the past few years, I’ve picked up an interest in chess and have found myself challenging faceless foes on chess.com quite often during my free time. However the allure of playing on a two dimensional screen could only last so long, and while I was working …

Internal Structure of a Lifting Body

Introduction: For my Senior Design project I teamed up with three other Tufts students and worked under the guidance of an engineer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to develop a proof-of-concept design for a lifting body which would be used to collect data on Uranus. Our goal was to prove it is possible to …

Cryogenic Acoustic Model

Background: My Role: My job was to develop an acoustic model of sound wave propagation in the tube in order to predict what pressures the MEMS microphones should be reading given an input frequency. Acoustic models are common and well documented, however this one was uniquely challenging for a few reasons: My Process I used …

Hi-Five Bot

The Problem I built this remote controlled driving robot as part of a group final project for my electromechanical systems class. The goal of the project was to create a remote controlled robot which could drive to the elevator, press elevator buttons and give a high five to the head of the Mechanical Engineering department. …

Part Design For Manufacturing

In the Summer of 2021 I worked with Vitae Industries to redesign parts on their Pharmaceutical Autocompounder with the goal of reducing costs and increasing durability Challenges included: I would redesign a part, make contact with a manufacturer to get a quote, and then iterate the design base on their feedback. was able to find …

Electric Knife Teardown

I made this CAD model for a class assignment where we tore down an electric knife to better understand the mechanical and electromechanical systems which it uses to operate. We took careful measurements of every part of the knife so we could replicate the assembly in Solidworks. I was responsible for making each part individually …

Smart Dumbbells Product Design

My final project for my Methods for Human Factors Engineering class was to design a product with the target users being teens of ages 13-17. I decided to design a set of smart dumbbells which are aimed at helping teens get and stay in shape. The dumbbells would have interchangeable weights and an accompanying app …