ABOUT

     I’m a senior in mechanical engineering at UAH, which I’ve been attending since Fall 2020, with an expected graduation date of May 2023. Additonally, I did dual enrollment classes at Calhoun Community College for two years in high school, from January 2018 to May 2020, where I completed a number of mathematics and science courses.

I’ve been working as a mechanical engineering intern in an atmospheric lightning research group at my university since October 2021. In that position, I’m currently working on mechanical design for a new instrument design that must operate in extreme conditions in remote Alaska. Furthermore, I have learned and employed a variety of mechanical engineering skills while contributing to past projects, such as redesigning old systems to accommodate new parts after essential components became unavailable; creating component drawings to communicate design changes for old systems; using GD&T fundamentals to control critical part features and tolerances on essential components; designing systems to enable field-repair and minimize refurbishment time; and reducing the noise floor of an atmospheric electrical charge sensor by eliminating a design flaw that led to galvanic corrosion near the sensing instrument.

During college, I’ve worked on multiple personal and group projects, with my most recent being a course group project measuring the stall torque of an inexpensive brushed DC motor against the temperature of the motor’s casing at a few different applied voltages to determine whether the magnitude of temperature rise was linear with respect to voltage, as many other brushed motor characteristics (approximately) are. In high school, I captained a FIRST Tech Challenge team for 2 years and acted as the design lead for 3 years.