Meet the Team
Meet the Team
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Our team is a diverse group of engineers and makers with various backgrounds in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Architecture. We aspire to create products that enhance the user's experience, and believe that the world can be made into a better, more inclusive place through user-centered design, and thoughtful engineering.
Spencer Needle
Spencer Needle
Spencer is an Undergraduate Student Graduating in Mechanical Engineering. He has a passion for design and specifically loves working with robotics and electronics. He has worked on many projects and teams, most notably designing and creating an unpickable lock for Los Alamos National Labs. His free time is mostly spent hiking mountains or exploring abandoned mines in the western US.
On the project, he focused on website development, product design, and interviewing users. Since much of the project focused on finding the best product to solve a problem, so did much of Spencer's work.
To fully develop this product, he would need to bring expertise on mechanical design and manufacturing methods to take this to market.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich
Scott is a Master's Degree student at the ATLAS Institute with a background in Architecture. He is a native of Colorado and enjoys building furniture and other household items in his free time.
For this project, he focused on building trays for the prototype, and interviewing potential users for the Tool Master 5000.
In order to fully develop this product, Scott would need to bring experience with manufacturing techniques and aesthetics to take the Tool Master 5000 to market.
Nathan is pursuing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences and has a background in Assembly and Quality Engineering. He is an active member of the CU Boulder Racing Team, participating in both the Endurance Team (Mazda Miatas) as well as the Formula SAE team.
His main role on the team was helping to create pretotypes as well as video editing. This includes both User POV videos, the pretotype video, the advertisement, and the CPT (User Clinic) Interview video.
In order to fully develop and produce the product he would need to bring his mechanical design and manufacturing experience to help with a high fidelity prototype (perhaps with a linkage system).
Steve Christensen
Steve Christensen
Steve is an MS student in ECEE also pursuing the Graduate Mechanical Design and Product Development Certificate Program. He is also a hobbyist woodworker who enjoys creating things such as the prototype for this project.
His role within the project was largely the creation of the medium fidelity prototype, which made sense because he has a shop at home in which to work. He is also certified to use the ITLL machine shop and its lathe, which was needed to machine the hubs attaching the sprockets to the axles, and also certified to use the Idea Forge wood shop, where all the 2x4's used to create the prototype were straightened with the planer.
Steve brings years of experience as an electrical engineer to the team, which helped in the selection of power supply, motor controller, and specialized motor for the medium fidelity prototype.
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