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