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Projects

Year 2005
1.) Personal Project - To earn a private pilots license.

2.) 2005 AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition - Same competition as previous years except with a different objective.  This time I have co-founded a team with last years members.  We are sponsored by Boeing and Motorola to a combined total of $3500.

 

Year 2004

1.) 2004 AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition
In this competition, students build robots which must achieve predefined objectives.  I am on the body design team for the Engineering Freshmen Committee.  My responsibilities include selection of power supply, speed control, motors, wheel assembly, frames, and the covering and the final assembly of the body.  I have also helped tremendously on the development of the arm and clamping portion of the robot.
Total Team Members: 10
Budget: $2000
Conclusion:  We placed 8th out of 24 teams.  As a first year team comprised fully of freshmen, the results were good.
(Links to our robot)
September 2003 - March 2004
http://dc.cen.uiuc.edu/

2.) Formula SAE
I am currently researching for a report which will hopefully help the UIUC Formula SAE team.  Formula SAE is a collegiate design competition where the students "design, fabricate, and compete with small formula-style race cars."

May 2004
http://www.sae.org/students/formula.htm

Four-Wheel Steering Technology and Application to FSAE (html) December 2003
 

3.) Honors Project for Mechanical Engineering 300 (Thermodynamics)
Review of literature on heat engine cycles.
Total Members: 2
The History of the Automotive Internal Combustion Engine - May 5th 2004

5.)

International Engineering Fellowship Project For Engineering 299,
I will be studying abroad at Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan.  This is an International Engineering Fellowship project describing that experience.
KIT Summer 04 Experience

6.) FordFord Motor Company Design Contest
Designed a new product feature to the Ford Focus vehicle. 
9/30/04-10/05/04
Total Members: 3
My role: Team leader
Final Outcome:
This project was spanned over four days and ended with a presentation to Ford engineers who rated and ranked the projects.  As the leader for the group, I organized the schedules of the members, decided on the product idea, and assigned research topics.

7.) KIT vehicle project
We were assigned to use recycled materials to construct a vehicle that would be propelled using energy sources such as rubber or chemical reactions.  The challenges came as soon as we realized communication would not be easy.  The other student spoke very little english so I had to use Japanese to communicate.  In the end we built a successful machine that was propelled using propellers powered by a long rubber band.  The vehicle was made to go straight using rudders.
7/04
Total Members: 2
Budget: 2000 yen
 

Year 2003
1.) Science Olympiad Robot Ramble
Designed a robotic system for the National Science Olympiad competition for high school students.  Objectives were to pick up odd shaped pieces some distance away from a cubic box and bring it back to place it in the cubic box.
Our design was unique because we used a system where two people could control two different aspects of the robot independently.  One person controlled the fetching mechanism and the other person controlled the base mechanism.  We had a very low budget but managed to build a high quality mechanism using plastic and balsa wood.  We were very successful at the competition.
We received first in State of Illinois Science Olympiad.
Total Members: 2