ACADEMIC PROJECTS
My professor once said, "A good engineer knows how to solve a problem, but the best engineer knows how to find one. Developing problem statements is an engineer's greatest skill". Inspired by this, I made it my goal to build projects that address real-world issues with a meaningful impact on society.
Design and Development of an Antomated Barricade for Sargassum control
This Project addresses the escalating sargassum invasions in the Caribbean, which peak annually and cause billions of dollars in economic losses through damage to tourism, fisheries, and coastal ecosystems
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Engineered an automated floating barricade using SolidWorks to protect shorelines from invasive sargassum accumulation
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Engineered a reinforced chain-link mechanism, validated through FSI simulations in Ansys, achieving 17% higher load capacity and improved resistance to currents and waves for blocking larger sargassum flows
Technical Environment: SolidWorks, ANSYS Workbench
Autonomous Drone Delivery Robot
This project was developed for the E-COVE competition in ME588, where our team designed a fully autonomous robot to deliver packages into customer boxes based on IR beacon signals, operating without human intervention during the game
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Built a compact 12”×12” robot with motorized drive, package storage, and launching mechanism.
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Implemented FSM-based control to automate navigation, detection, and delivery tasks.
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Integrated IR beacon sensing for identifying receiving customers and line-following for localization.
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Designed and fabricated chassis and components using SolidWorks, 3D printing, and laser cutting.
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Developed embedded control using Arduino Mega and Li-Po battery power system.
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Validated subsystem performance individually and through full-system trials in competition.
Technical Environment: SolidWorks, Oscilloscopes, Fabrication tools
Design of a Microbot for Assisted Reproduction
Designed a magnetically controlled, thermally actuated helical microbot for targeted sperm delivery. The microbot encapsulates a sperm cell, navigates to the fertilization site via magnetic control, and releases the cell upon thermal activation at 37°C..
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Designed & modeled the spermbot in SolidWorks for optimal propulsion.
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Simulated thermal actuation in ANSYS Workbench, identifying PMMA hydrogel as the best material.
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Analyzed structural integrity to assess failure points under load.
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Developed plans for fabrication, actuation, and control-feedback mechanisms.
Technical Environment: SolidWorks, ANSYS Workbench
Automated System For Renewable Energy Resource Monitoring
Developed an automated system with drones and fixed stations for renewable energy resource data collection.
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Designed a custom enclosure and mountings on solidworks.
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Connected 4 industry grade sensors working on different communication protocols.
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Designed a custom PCB on Altium to make the design more compact.
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Wrote a python script that pushes the data gathered to a real time data base.
Technical Environment: Solidworks, Altium, Microcontrollers, ArcGis Pro, C++, Python.
Design And Development of a High Strain Rate Compact Tensile Testing Machine
Prototyped a tensile testing machine for testing linear materials at high strain rates. The machine developed was 10x more compact, fast and achieved an accuracy of 97%.
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Designed a custom test bench with all components on Solidworks.
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Integrated a load sensor and an IR module to arduino which was linked to a NI-DAQ for measuring stress and strain.
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Tested multiple materials like PLA, PETG, Carbon Fiber, etc.
Technical Environment: Solidwroks, NI-DAQ, Microcontroller, C++, Python.
Automated Hand Sanitizer Spray with Compliance Verification with Facial Recognition
Prototyped an automatic hand sanitizer spray with compliance verification in an effor to reduce HAIs (Hospital induced Infections).
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Modeled the prototype on Solidworks.
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Integrated a camera module, pump, solenoid valve and an ultrasonic senor on a respberrypi board.
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Developed an ML model for facial-recognition using OpenCV.
Technical Environment: Solidworks, Microcontrollers, Machine Learning, C++ and Python.
Thermal And Energy Analysis Of A Residential Building Using Autodesk Revit Software
Conducted a comparetive study of different constructional materials to investigate their effect on net annual energy consumption.
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Modeled a 5 story commercial building on Autodesk revit software.
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Created an Energy model on Energy+V2 software.
Technical Environment: Autodesk Revit, Energy+V2.
