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Tyler Tucker
Tyler is originally from Silicon Valley. That being said, engineering has always been a career choice for him. Tyler has had multiple internships and UCSD research projects and always try to learn a little bit about every engineering discipline and science. This is why he choose to work on the oceanographic instrumentation with Jules Jaffe. Tyler has found that working on this project has been such a rewarding experience, and could see himself doing something along these lines as a career.For this project, Tyler has fabricated, broken, and re-fabricated enough machined parts to find his niche as the team's machinist. Apart from his special machinist talents, Tyler has played a valuable asset to the team by performing various heat transfer, mechanical and buoyancy calculations. When he's not in the machine shop, you'll usually find him tearing up carpet on the ballroom floor with UCSD's dancesport team.tctucker@ucsd.edutylertucker202@yahoo.comVanna Lee
This Sacramento native is soon to graduate and leave the beautiful UCSD campus to pursue greener pastures in a career in the engineering field. With a mechanical engineering major, college has forced her to become an insomniac. Sleepless nights were spent finishing reports and learning new fascinating information. As dreadful as that sounds, engineering has been something Vanna has always enjoyed and it definitely shows with the dedication and commitment to detail she shows in her work. As a member of the Manufacturing Technology Production Academy, Vanna has been working with AutoCAD and machining tools ever since high school. Plastic injection molding and fiber-glassing techniques were also some fun techniques she learned through the academy. Now in the Snow-Cam project, she plays a pivotal role on the team as the the fiscal manager as well as the engineer responsible for the optical system design.When she's not spending countless hours in the lab or the machine shop, Vanna imagines herself as an Iron Chef cooking exquisite meals for her friends and family. valee@ucsd.eduJamie McCormick
Jamie hails from a small corn-fed town in central Illinois called Coal City. He has always been fascinated by all aspects of science and it's integration into practical uses. Sparked by the work he had performed during his two year internship at General Atomics, Jamie has turned his interests primarily towards energy storage and conversion systems.This go-getter likes to give back to others as well. In a previous summer, Jamie started a free tutoring service for high school and college students in which he offers math and science tutoring in return for coffee. His other philanthropic work is more related to the canine world. Jamie has worked with the San Diego Pitbull Rescue as a foster parent taking in and helping abandoned and abused pitbulls. Jamie has played a jack-of-all trades type role on the snow-cam project working on the machining for waterproofing components, writing microprocessor code for the camera control circuits, performing FEA and CFD simulations for various assemblies and whatever odd-job task needs performing. In his free time, Jamie enjoys escrima and muay-thai kickboxing along with less violent activities such as producing music and creating short films. jmccormick7891@gmail.comDiana Lopez-Santana
The Sponsor
Jules Jaffe, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
email: jjaffe@ucsd.edu
website: http://jaffeweb.ucsd.edu/
Acknowledgments
For challenging our knowledge of engineering, design and report writing while still remaining enthusiastic and supportive of our work:
Jerry Tustaniwskyi
Greg Mills
Circuitry, programming and outstanding technical support
Steve Roberts
Ordering and shipping parts
JV Agnew
For machining assistance and design consultation
Tom Chalfont
Isaiah Freerksen
Jack
Design Consultation for submersible devices
Jules Jaffe
Paul Roberts
Fernando Simonet
For camera assistance and troubleshooting
Mike Cochrane
For design revisions and critiques
The winter quarter MAE156b class
Diana is home grown from Sunny San Diego and graduated from Mar Vista High School. In high school she was part of the Poseidon Academy which focused especially on marine sciences. She has performed summer research with the bioengineering department at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center. Most recently she has worked as a mechanical design intern at Northrop Grumman for three consecutive summers. Diana has been the go-to person for all of the power and lighting related issues for the snow-cam. She has tackled some of the most critical analysis for the project making sure that all the components have just the right amount of power that they need without over heating. Apart from pursuing her engineering career, Diana sincerely believes in giving back to her community. She plans on being an active role model in her community by being involved in the Society of Hispanics for Professional Engineers, donating her time to others and eventually opening a scholarship program for low income engineering students. While being active in her community, Diana likes to get active on the dancefloor! She enjoys dancing, aerial silks, biking and high risk sports. dglopez@ucsd.edusantana_dianag@yahoo.com
Jeanette Cobian
This smart, fun loving engineer was born in Chula Vista California but raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She has wanted to be an engineer since she was in 3rd grade and has kept inspired through her involvement with science related activities since then. As a college student she has been involved in undergraduate research in the field of heat transfer and has decided to pursue a degree in a similar field for graduate school as she aspires to obtain her PhD in the future. She hopes that continue working in research and aspires to become a university faculty member as well as to help her inspire young girls to pursue doctoral degrees in the sciences . With her dedication and smarts she will definitely be a bright star to watch out for.
As part of the Snow-Cam team, she has imparted her intellect into the brains of the vessel. She has developed the sensor system intended to monitor pressure, temperature, humidity as well as tilt in the system and has also programmed it all through the use of an Arduino microprocessor. Even when she's not programming the Snow-Cam she's taking on new programming projects for fun. Most recently, she has been involved with the hardware and software optimization of the Snow-Cam and has been working on 3D CAD models, programming and hardware development for the system.
As for her hobbies, she is a runner at heart and enjoys hitting the trails on the weekends. She has also recently taken on cycling and is training for a 50mi bicycle ride in Ensenada Mex.
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