Engineering Projects
Engineering Projects
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Orrery
As my final project in Mechanical Design, I led a team in the creation of an Orrery which displays the rotation of the planets at accurate relative speeds. This project was a great fusion of design, manufacturing, and math. Check out our website for more information: https://sites.google.com/view/mechdesorrery/home.
I led the design and machining of the top and bottom wooden plates using the ShopBot CNC Router.
To ensure proper function, I calculated the gear ratios required to get each planet revolving at the proper rate, the torque resulting from each ratio, and the press fit interference required to keep the gears from spinning independently of the shaft.
CubeSats and the Detection of Ocean Plastic
During the summer of 2020, I participated in MIT's Beaverworks Summer Institute. This was an intensive summer program in which I worked with a team to design a mini satellite to detect ocean plastic.
I was in charge of the structural design as well as the power bill. I designed the satellite in Onshape and did testing on the electrical components in order to determine how much time can be spent photographing, analyzing, and conserving power.
Face Tracking Nerf Turret
Although I did not write the face tracking code itself, I found that this project was a great opportunity for me to learn how to read other people's code and projects in order to build on them to create something awesome.
Face Tracking Nerf Turret: As an interim project during high school, I used a design for a nerf turret and a design for a face tracking pan-tilt mechanism to make a face tracking nerf turret.
Alice in Wonderland Clock
As a project in my Mechanical Prototyping class, I built an Alice in Wonderland clock containing several key mechanisms. This clock has cams, a ratchet and pawl, several worm gears and a scotch yoke. This project was my first real introduction to a group project with many interconnected mechanisms.
Thermodynamics Projects
This project is an analysis of how a propane tank cools as it is used. The inspiration for this project came from my blacksmithing experience. The forge at my college overdraws on propane, and after about an hour (less in cold weather) the propane freezes and the forge chokes. I spent a lot of time analyzing the propane tank using the first law of thermodynamics for open systems.
This project is the analysis and optimization of a boiling water nuclear reactor. Many of the temperature values I used were from a real nuclear power plant in the Carolinas. I used a Rankine cycle to create a MATLAB simulation of the reactor, calculating each point of the cycle. Then, I swept different pressures and fuel rod values to determine the optimal cycle for maximum energy production.
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