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Alpha

Alpha is a custom designed bicycle meant to challenge the standard for commuter cycling and lead the way to new innovations within the industry of bike components. It was created for my senior design project with a team of 4 other engineers.  We worked for over 2000 hours to design and fabricate Alpha. The main …

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Music Machine

The Volcano, as my team of 3 calls it, is a self automated music machine that was created during the course MEAM 511, introduction to creative thinking course. It was a project that demanded a machine be entirely mechanical and able to play music for 45 seconds. I designed the ball release mechanism which is …

Flutter Apparatus

Aeroelastic Flutter

The task of this project was to generate electricity using only wind power and no rotating parts.  My team built an apparatus that could hold a tensioned rubber belt which would exhibit the phenomenon of aeroelastic flutter at just 13 miles per hour. The belt would begin to vibrate and by attaching magnets inside copper …

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Water Powered Rocket

I designed and fabricated an apparatus for launching a custom built carbon fiber and aluminum rocket body for use with the sophomore lab course. The rocket and launcher was built to withstand over 160 PSI giving it the thrust to fly upwards of 25 meters. The base unit is made of 60 series aluminum and …

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Materials Testing for Engineering Labs

This is a materials sample holder that I created during the summer between my sophomore and junior year. I was granted the Jacob M Abel internship to work on redesigning the curriculum for MEAM 247, the required lab course for Sophomore engineering students. I personally tested all the samples using an Instron machine to test for …