Super Beat
I designed and created a pneumatic actuated soft robotic fluid pump analogous to the human heart. Air pumped into the expandable inner chamber acts like the contractile muscles of the heart. When relaxed, fluid is suctioned into the heart, when contracted, fluid is pumped out of the heart.
Biome: The Future of Buildings
Our team's prompt was: How can we have a substantial impact on sustainability and efficiency for existing commercial buildings in ways that promote the comfort, health and safety of users? We developed Biome, four incorporated systems, to help address our prompt. Aurora, our sensing system, measures carbon dioxide, temperature, volatile organic compounds, humidity and occupancy to help align HVAC system controls with the needs of the building, Atlas Management Tool and Atlas User Interface, both web-app interfaces to communicate building conditions to facility managers and help promote energy conservation awareness and social engagement among office users respectively and Anima, the data processing and aggregation layer that refines the data collected into meaningful and actionable metrics that can provide insight into the building.
Ankle Replacement Design
The purpose of the project was to design a novel device and take it from inception to market. My team and I designed an ankle replacement implant that improved upon current ankle replacement implants by using ball bearings to reduce the friction at the articulating surfaces of the tibia, fibula and talus. We implemented the same idea used in car wheel bearings to decrease friction and improve load capacity.
Flow Visualization
The purpose of the flow visualization project was to capture visually striking fluid phenomena. My partner and I examined different density fluids to illustrate the effects of buoyancy, interfacial tension, Raleigh-Talyor Instability, angular velocity and viscosity. The layering of the fluids helped visually establish the presence of a pressure gradient along the height of the container.
USS Nautilus CAD
For our advanced CAD class, my team and I made a CAD model of the USS Nautilus (SSN - 571), demonstrating the mechanical parts of the submarine, focusing on the steam turbine and the reactor.