Graduate School:
Oregon State University - Incomplete MSME January 2011 to September 2011
GPA 4.0/4.0
During my time at Oregon State I worked in both the Design Lab under Dr. Robert Stone and the Dynamic Robotics Lab under Dr. Jonathan Hurst.
Dr. Stone's lab was focused on fully understanding design of systems to the level that we could abstract out design primitives in order to create tools for designers to fully explore solutions spaces. This work relied heavily on the classification of components by their ability to transform energy or provide a particular function. While in this lab, I worked to test design tools by providing abstracted design requirements and testing output designs that were generated from a vast component design repository.
Dr. Hurst's Dynamic Robotics Lab was focused on developing more robust control schemes for walking and running robots. Our hypothesis was that biological systems deal with ground disturbances so well by using a more force or impulse based control scheme. As part of this research I worked primarily on studying optimal passive dynamic for actuation tasks. My colleagues and I broke down all actuation systems into five main tasks: High frequency force control, constant force control, catching, throwing, and cyclic motion. These tasks, we feel, encompass the majority of all actuation tasks. Each task requires different actuation architectures for best performance.
Undergraduate:
Missouri University of Science & Technology - BSME August 2005 to December 2009
GPA 3.8/4.0
Main focus of study - Linear Systems, Mechatronics
Extra Curricular - Collegiate Eagle Scout Association, Student Design and Experiential Learning Center