Senior Design Project – Power Dish Scrubber
MAE 4341: Innovative Product Design | August – December 2017
- Our team of five developed an ergonomic power dish scrubber designed to aid people with arthritis and physical limitations.
- The course project for the product design class was to create a product with commercial potential to help elderly people in everyday life using product design methodology to develop it.
- I was given the option to fulfill my senior design project as an add-on to the course project, where I did my own theoretical design iteration to the power dish scrubber. The design report attached includes the outline of my personal design iteration at the beginning and additions to each section of the report made by the entire team.
- My thoughts on this project were that while I enjoyed going through the step-by-step product design process outlined by experts for the course, it didn’t allow much room for considering the “cool” factor or any sort of personal touches that would be motivating. The process aimed to be as objective and as least subjective as possible in making product design decisions, and while this has it’s advantages for making “smart” decisions that the group agrees on, it didn’t allow for much creativity. In the end, I don’t think making a power dish scrubber for my senior design project was “cool”, and I wish I had more ability and foresight to get into a project I was more personally interested in.
Senior Design Report
Air Source Heat Pump Study
MAE 5010: Future Energy Systems | February – May 2018
- In a team of four, I worked with a smart-energy organization in the local Tomkins County area to Cornell University, HeatSmart Tompkins, to conduct an energy study to evaluate the effectiveness of residential air-source heat pumps at reducing electricity and energy costs.
- Our team researched air source heat pumps in depth, worked with HeatSmart Tompkins to interview three case study participants, and collected data from one case study participant to make recommendations based on our learnings for air source heat pump use in residential homes in upstate New York. We then presented our findings to representatives of HeatSmart Tompkins in order for them to take into account our findings into their future recommendations for Tompkins County residents.
- I conducted the evaluation and energy use analysis for Prof. Steve DeGloria’s home in Montour Falls, NY detailed in section 4 of the report.
Air Source Heat Pump Study
Bicycle Crank Mechanical Response and Design Optimization
MAE 3250: Analysis of Mechanical and Aerspace Structures | November 2016
- I used ANSYS to model and find the mechanical response of a bicycle crank, including stress, displacement, safety factor in yielding, and fatigue life. I also found the optimal design of the crank that minimized mass and met given design constraints. I chose a material to manufacture the crank using CES software.
Bike Crank Project Report
Robot Competition
MAE 3780: Mechatronics | November 2016
- Tasked with constructing an autonomous robot that would find and push another robot out of a 1 meter diameter circle, my partner and I used an Arduino Uno, a sonar sensor, QTI light sensors to detect the boundary of the circle, and motor servos to complete our robot. We used C to code the Arduino. I designed and 3-D printed a ramp that fastened to the front of the robot that was used to get under the wheels of the opposing robot.
Robot Competition Project Report
Bicycle Caliper Brake Stress Profile
MAE 3250: Analysis of Mechanical and Aerospace Structures | October 2016
- Using Matlab, I used the finite element method to produce a post-processing script that produced stress plots of 2-D profiles. I used this script to model the stress profiles on a bicycle caliper brake.
Bicycle Brake Caliper Stress Analysis Report
Wind-Pump Project
MAE 2250: Mechanical Synthesis | April 2016
- My team designed and fabricated a single acting single piston pump with a slider crank mechanism with input shaft receiving power from wind. Our pump pumps water at a rate of 6.25 liters/minute. The product development file explains the entirety of the design process while the user manual goes into more detail about the pump mechanism.
Wind Pump User Manual
Wind-Pump Implementation Project
ENGRC 2250: Communication for Mechanical Engineering Design and Innovation | April 2016
- A group of three classmates and I planned the implementation of a water pump in Calcha, Bolivia to provide water to the Calcha community in need of a reliable potable water source.
Wind Pump Implementation Project Report
Wind Turbine Analysis Project
MAE 2120: Material Properties and Selection of Engineering Materials | April 2016
- I made a program using Matlab that analyzes the stresses due to shearing forces, bending moments, and torque in the shafts of a wind turbine design. Furthermore, it allows the user to iterate the shaft diameters to optimize the mass of the shafts and the safety factors in yielding, fatigue, and twist.
Wind Turbine Analysis Project Report
Original Design Project
MAE 2250: Mechanical Synthesis | February 2016
- My team created a physics experiment to be performed in front of eigth graders while strictly following the product design process.
Original Design Project Report
Model Car Project
MAE 1170: Introduction to Mechanical Engineering | November 2014
- In a group of three, my teammates and I designed and fabricated a model car that competed against other teams in a series of tests assessing torque and speed.
