Other Projects

First year mechanical engineering students are required to analyze a mechanism and model it in 3-D solid modeling software. In this case my team design the mechanism behind a variable-nozzle garden hose on Creo Parametric. This project was particularly difficult as one of the members of the team dropped out leaving the team with two students.

Nonetheless the project was successful and I was chosen among a vast number of teams to present at the showcase in front of a large audience of administrators and employers. My presentation slides are attached as well as the complete manual which provides a much more in-depth breakdown of the individual parts of the assembly.

I continued close contact with my professor and was also able to present my models at the next two freshman orientations for incoming students. Most people who viewed the presentation were particularly impressed with the ability to implement realistic renderings and accurate animations while being relatively new to the software.

This in-depth project carried skills into other classes that used Creo Parametrics as well as SolidWorks where most of the assignments were less complicated than this assembly.

Helped develop a design concept for continuous draft tube crystallizers with integrated sensors using SolidWorks over the course of two months alongside PhD students. The ultimate goal of the research was to develop a way to scale down industrial draft tube crystallizers to lab scale to be able to understand how to make the processes more efficient. I mostly focused the report on the design of a crystallizer with a baffle.

I devised a report on my findings and understanding of the concept and solutions where an excerpt is attached.