Junior Design: Rover“Inaugural Loyola Junior Design,” Fall 2022. This class is designed to help prepare juniors for their senior design capstone projects. Junior Design develops skills for integrating many technologies, including CAD, 3D printers, laser printers, motors (Servo and DC), Bluetooth devices, and H-bridge systems. Each group of five engineering juniors, consisting of mechanical, material, computer, and electrical engineers, was tasked with building a rover from the website howtomechatronics.com. Additionally, each group brainstormed and designed an attachment for the rover. Our group chose to design a lift that would attach to the front of the rover. The rover was Arduino based, so I gained hands-on experience with Arduino and its coding. Throughout the semester, each group gave three formal poster presentations leading to the final demonstration of our working rovers.
The inaugural Junior Design course was challenging and motivating. I spent nights and weekends in the lab, working alone and with my teammates to build and test the rover, ensuring that everything functioned correctly at each step. I genuinely enjoyed the design and redesign process and took advantage of the opportunity to learn domain specific skills from the other students on my team. Our team demonstrated the ability to flex between different leadership roles and found the most efficient ways to work productively together |
Junior Design Rover Group
Rover Video Presentation
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Quantum Simulator“Quantum Computing,” Spring 2023. Throughout the semester, student groups programmed a quantum computing simulator with Python. Each group included four students, consisting of computer engineers, computer science, and physics majors. The code comprised five main files: util, qubit, state, moment, gate, and circuit. The simulator would take the inputs of the zero and one kets and send them through an algorithm, such as Deutsch’s Algorithm, and compute the output. This project required significant collaboration, as each of us brought our individual strengths to the group. For example, the computer science major shared advanced Python concepts with the group, and the computer engineer and physics majors deconstructed the concepts learned in class so that each step could be translated into code. The program took us three months to create, and it can now successfully run different algorithms based on user inputs
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Quantum Computing Simulator Group
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Therac-25 Systems Engineering Case Study“Engineering Systems Analysis,” Spring 2023.
Case Study: Therac-25, a radiation machine used between 1985–1988 to treat cancer patients. Findings: Many system engineering practices, such as testing, the method of safety systems, documentation, verification, and validation were either missed or lacking, causing patients to receive radiation overdoses. Reflection: This assignment was impactful because it underscored the real-life risks of negligence in engineering. |
Therac-25 Case Study Presentation
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Future Plans
- Research study with computer engineering professor, Dr. Hoe, for fall 2023
- IT internship at Newforma, Manchester, NH, for summer 2023
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