Projects
This page is meant to showcase my past and present projects, both from school and personal. The projects are in a rough chronological order.
Engineering Intramurals
Working with four interdisciplinary students from UB to formulate a community garden design plan that can be replicated by other organizations. We have gathered customer needs using concepts generated by our team. More information about Engineering Intramurals can be found here.
This project has taught me a lot about leading a team and working in interdisciplinary team.
ASME SOLARSPLASH
Working on the SOLARSPLASH entry for UB's chapter of ASME. We competed in SOLAR Splash in 2022. View results here: https://solarsplash.com/2022-event/
Senior Design Project: Portable Car Shelter
This project is being conducted for MAE 451: Design Processes and Methods and will be continued in MAE494: Design Project. Working in a group with four other senior mechanical engineering students, we are designing a portable solution for vehicle protection. The design process is still underway, and have selected a final design to begin prototyping in Spring of 2022.
3D Printing
I purchased a 3D printer in December of 2021. My plans for this printer include work on personal projects, as well as using it for prototyping the Portable Car Shelter (seen below). The printer is a Creality Ender 3 V2, and I have been utilizing the Cura slicing program. I hope to be able to utilize this tool for prototyping and many future projects.
Electrically Assisted Bike
Implementing an electric motor to a bicycle to assist in power application. This project is still ongoing, and will hopefully have a functioning prototype soon... I am using Solidworks to model the motor mounts.
2021 Garden
Planned and maintained the layout, irrigation, and fence for my 5000 sqft. flower and vegetable garden. The garden yielded flowers and vegetables including: cucumbers, tomatoes, and sunflowers.
Not Profitable Stickers
Made sticker designs in my free time using Adobe Photoshop, including UB inspired designs. They have not made me any money.
Corner Desk
Utilized CAD to design my corner desk. Constructed of pine with oak legs the desk was built for my apartment to facilitate online classes for college. This project was completed due to my resistance to buying a desk. Desks are expensive and aren't always fit for everyone's use case, so I designed and build my desk to best serve me. For this project, I laid out my own requirements and designed the desk around them. The depth, width, and wire management was all designed to fit my needs.
Tandem Bike
Restored a vintage tandem bicycle. The restoration included sanding down to metal, painting, replacing bearings, greasing, and putting on new tires. This passion project kept me busy during the Fall 2020 semester, when I was "distanced learning." I purchased the decrepit tandem bicycle on craigslist for more than it was worth, and transformed it to a better condition. Hours of hard work, sanding, priming and painting had to be done before replacing the mechanical components. Every detail was done thoroughly, I hold great pride in this bike's transformation.
Finite Element Analysis
This project was completed for MAE 377: Product Design in a CAE Environment. I modeled an apple peeler in Solidworks, created the assembly, drawings, tolerancing and conducted FEA. This project transformed my CAD experience, expanding the tool from just drawings and 3D modeling, into a useful simulation tool. For this project I analyzed the stress and strain on an apple peeler using FEA.
2020 Garden
Small garden started during the COVID-19 pandemic after being thrust back home. The garden grew corn, cucumbers and peppers. This small garden inspired the massive 2021 garden. This project grew my passion for creating something from nothing. Hard work and perseverance yielded a plentiful harvest; that summer I ate dozens of cucumbers.
Technical Report
This project was completed for EAS 360: STEM Communications. The project consisted of writing a technical white paper on a topic of our choosing. My paper was focuses on UB's ineffective smoking policy. The findings were summarized into an academic poster. This project grew my technical writing skills, advancing my ability to convey my ideas with credibility.
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This project was completed for MAE 204: Thermodynamics I at UB. The stirling engine was built out of steel-wool, a soda can, a balloon and a PVC corner. This project was frustrating and took several attempts to get functioning, but in the end our group was one of four groups with a working engine. This experience brought concepts learned in class to life.
MATLAB Project
This project was completed as the final project for EAS 230: Engineering Computations at UB. The coding project involved solving the implicit and explicit solution to a heat transfer problem in MATLAB. The code yielded the temperature distribution across an Uranium plate over time. Results were finalized into a report. This project introduced me to the powerful tool of MATLAB, showing me what could be accomplished using programing.
Wind Turbine
This project was completed for EAS 199: Engineering Seminar. The wind turbine project was completed in collaboration with 3 other freshman engineering students. We were tasked to optimize a small scale wind turbine to generate the most power. This was my first group project at a college level, it brought my team work abilities up a notch. I learned how to better communicate with my team members and learned to trust dependable teammates.
High School Robotics Club
At my first opportunity in 9th grade I joined the Southold Robotics Club. We competed in the FIRST Robotics Competition, this involved building a robot to compete against other schools in a game based challenge. During my senior year I was appointed the president of the club. This experience introduced me to problem solving based thinking.
Over the four years in the club I was a work horse, often doing odd jobs. On Team R.I.C.E., I redid the team's website, kept up with the rules annually, and led scouting efforts. Scouting efforts included reaching out to other teams online, and benchmarking the opponents at completions. This included long nights in the hotel tabulating and interpreting large data sets.