Summary
Warm Turkey
Warm Turkey saw the creation of a working nicotine cessation device. The device weans a user off of nicotine slowly to remove withdrawal symptoms
My major contributions included shell and casing design, PCB development, and injection mold design
Solid Power
This internship involved me working at a battery manufacturing plant. I learned how to utilize my mechanical engineering skills to improve manufacturing processes
I redesigned and machined spindle and motor mounts, created movable sensor assemblies, developed tension control systems, and improved clean air workstations
CSU Engineering Research Center
As a shop hand I learned new machines and tools. I completed manual and CNC machining processes and designed parts for professors
I conducted maintenance on equipment and used heavy machinery for machine removal and stock organization
Machine Design and Dynamics Courses
For these courses I combined CAD modeling with force analysis
MATLAB and manual computing was used to calculate object forces and linkage lengths, and I utilized SOLIDWORKS to develop the physical solution that was calculated
Mechatronics Casino
For this project I fully coded a working casino. With over 3000 lines of code and 3 Arduinos, complex flow charts and code interactions, and need for multiple shift registers, this proved to be a fun challenge
These codes included a fully working blackjack station, a roulette wheel with IR betting logic, and a randomized horse track with realistic odds.
Battle Boats
For my MECH-202 course, I coded a battle boat that took 2nd in a bracket of 22 teams. In this process, we became the only team to successfully implement a market controller
We needed three separate codes, one in a program I had never used before, to allow for connection to an Xbox controller without a purchased shield. To my knowledge I am the only person to have successfully remotely controlled an Arduino project without one, and am looking to post an internet guide on how I did
Machine Shop
In my CSU machine shop course I learned manual and CNC machining methods, as well as metrology. I machined a variety of materials, and in a variety of methods
All parts that were machined were within .005” of a target length, and successful hardness testing was done on a drop forged screwdriver