ANOSH SETHNA

A testbed designed to evaluate the stability of an extraterrestrial tensegrity robot with a centrally mounted gimbaled thruster MY ROLE: Project Lead and Design Lead KEY SKILLS: mechanical design, metal fabrication, sensor selection, circuit design, data acquisition NOTABLE OUTCOMES: first ever testing of a gimbaled thruster at UC Berkeley's Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities lab

An autonomous platform designed to ease the transition from human to self-driven automobiles MY ROLE: Co-Product Manager KEY SKILLS: human-centered design methods, physical prototyping, animation NOTABLE OUTCOMES: project recognized on the UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation website

An ultra-efficient electric vehicle designed and manufactured from the ground up MY ROLE: Team President KEY SKILLS: mechanical design, prototyping, computer modeling, metal & composite fabrication, testing NOTABLE OUTCOMES: vehicle earned 2nd place out of more than 30 competitors at the 2014 Shell Eco-marathon

A personal effort to explore the field of pen design KEY SKILLS: human-centered design, prototyping, fabrication NOTABLE OUTCOMES: latest design iteration served as an awesome birthday gift for my sister

A two-degree-of-freedom robotic launcher designed to shoot the perfect basketball shot MY ROLE: Launcher and Platform Design Lead KEY SKILLS: robotics, electro-mechanical design, prototyping, fabrication, testing NOTABLE OUTCOMES: course professor kept our launcher for use as a display piece for the university's electrical engineering department

An educational kit designed to help educators convey fundamental principles of fractography to middle-schoolers MY ROLE: Project Manager and Lead Designer KEY SKILLS: human-centered design, fractography, prototyping NOTABLE OUTCOMES: during user testing a teacher told our team that the kit meshed "perfectly" with the material that he was already teaching