Experience

Capstone: Engineering Design Project

Automatic Irrigation and Cooling System in a Hydroponic Greenhouse

• Developed a PLC-based automatic control system which enabled an irrigation and cooling system's precise operation. Used timers to regulate water pump through receptacle activation.

•   Design a ladder programming based on an hysteresis condition for exhaust fan activation based on a 5 °C temperature differential, optimizing energy efficiency.

• Final Presentation

Undergraduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                  Jan 2022- May  2023

                       Development and Evaluation of a Laparoscopic Induction Heater for Adjuvant Treatment of Peritoneal Cancer

•    In charge of mathematical analysis and circuitry design for an alarm system using a biopotential amplifier capable to detect leakage current of 0.1mA at 400kHz to satisfy safety standards

• Work on implementation and optimization of Fiber Optic temperature sensor in system while analyzing and recording data

                                                                    Image Science Engineer Intern - L3Harris                                                                

Rochester, NY                                                                                                                                                                                           May-July 2021                                                               

• Create code documentation in Jupyter Notebook as a tool to the company to help explain how the image recollection code worked in an optical system.

•  Learned basic knowledge in Fourier Optics and Image Science

•  Explain theoretically, mathematically, and graphically how the change in parameters like wavelength, numerical aperture and lens shape changed the Point Spread Function and how this affected the resulting image.

Undergraduate Research Intern

  Nanotechnology and Biomedicine REU in University of Georgia Athens                                                           May-July 2019

Fourier Ptychography microscope inside of a multi-cell well plate using a Miniature Illuminator Module 

• Developed a Fourier Ptychographic microscopy system which enables multicolor label-free imaging of cells inside of a multi- well plate

• Settled the communication through a remote connection via SSH terminal application; between a Host-Processor and Digital Light Processor (DLP) projector to produce the patterns of illumination required for high-resolution reconstruction of images

• Generated a Python code that projected circle patterns at 4 frames per second through an optical relay attachment producing a high numerical aperture imaging

Publication:

C. Ortiz, R. Carlyle, K. F.Tehrani, L. Mortensen, " Fourier Ptychography Microscopy inside of a multi-well-plate using a Miniature Illumination Module" Poster at Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2019 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA October 16-19, 2019

Conferences:

• University of Georgia Athens Poster Presentation July 2019 

• Biomedical Engineering Society Conference October 2019

• NSF EEC Grantees Conference October 2019

Undergraduate Research Assistant in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) research          

                                                                                                                                                                                           January 2019- May 2019

• •  Assisted research in neuroimaging to create a non-invasive approach for individuals with severe physical disabilities

  • Performed EEG (electro-encephalogram) with the Emotiv Epoc Headset to record the neuronal post synaptic potentials resulted from focus and neutral tasks from the user

•  Differentiated mental states frequencies after the signal processing approach to classified them according to their bandwidth

Robotics and Automation Technology, SkillsUSA National Competitions

Skills USA Nationals Competitions, Robotics and Automation Technology (7/17) 

-Louisville, Kentucky

-Nov 2016-June 2017

Lead Programmer 

• Created an autonomous program for a Robotic Automated Arm (Scorbase 4uR) in a minor scale manufacturing line production

• Designed flowchart program and collaborated with required electro-mechanical documentation for station optimization

• Created Siemens PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) program which enabled the robot communication with external sensors

Vex Robotics Team Capitan

 Aug 2014 - Nov 2016

•  Created program for robot’s autonomous competition challenge.

•  Managed responsibilities and distribution of the team tasks

•  Collaborated with design and building of the robot

•  Documented robots process of building