School PROJECTS

During my final year at ASU I worked on this capstone project, where along with five other students we worked to make a device that can move laterally along a solar panel while cleaning up and down the surface. The prototype design used is shown in the picture, where a simplified brush rests at the end of a telescoping arm connected to a main bracket that envelopes the top width of the solar panel. The wheels in the bracket would roll along a horizontal rail installed on top of the panel.

This is the final prototype constructed, with working telescoping arm motors and wheel axle motors. The whole iterative design process really demonstrated the difficulties and challenges that come with design and manufacturing. Despite various challenges the team was able learn valuable lessons should another version of the model be pursued. As chief engineer on the team I led the design, solid modeling, and electrical system.

During my graduate-level vibration analysis class, I worked on a project to find and display mode shapes based on given mass and stiffness matrices for a wing. As well, natural frequencies, static displacements, and free displacements were found for the wing. This image was the first mode shape for the z-axis, corresponding to a natural frequency of 2.26 Hz. 

Pictured here is another mode shape, corresponding to the second natural frequency of 5.22 Hz.