The third project of my mechanical prototyping class featured a Renaissance-themed sheet metal sculpture, which I helped create alongside my classmates Mads, Katie, and Jack. After the success with linkages in the automata, I wanted to try my hand at a slightly more complex linkage set, so I spent most... [Read More]

In the second project of my mechanical prototyping class, our assignment was to construct an automata that used a hand crank as an input and created some sort of interesting motion with it. Some ways to do this included gears, cams, and linkages. Personally, I was fairly intrigued by linkages,... [Read More]

For this first project of my mechanical prototyping class, our assignment was to create a lasercut box using several different types of wood joints to develop some familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of each of them. I thought it’d be fun to make a Wall-E inspired box that would... [Read More]

For our final project in our Mechanical Prototyping class, we wanted to tell a story with our sculpture that fit with the “myths and legends” theme. Ultimately, we settled on sharing the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice through our sculpture, which was created along with my classmates Eric, Ever, and... [Read More]

The rotorcraft operations center (ROC) is a digital project featuring virtual and physical dashboards to display summarized fleet info with the objective of being able to predict engine events before they happen. Currently, engine data is monitored monthly through manually compiled summary report, but this project will help automate these... [Read More]

One of the primary functions of the product support team is to look at helicopter engine data from events when something doesn’t go as expected and be able to understand what happened, what the cause of the event was, and what corrective action they should recommend to the customers to... [Read More]