professional experience! (scroll as you please)
mechanical / thermal / cryogenics engineer at hrl labs
july 2023 - present
- developing thermosiphons (a one-way wickless heat pipe) filled with ethane and nitrogen to cool our fridges faster
- standing up entire cryostats (from internals to coax cables to gas handling carts & compressor lines)
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theorycraftingtesting advanced materials and adding to our metal/dielectric/ceramic material database - designing mechanical trinkets and bits that make production go smoother
mechanical engineering intern at teledyne relays
jun 2022 - sept 2022
- redesigned a relay spring mechanism which was plastically deforming at solder reflow temps; ran 100 simulations on new spring shapes to lower stress by 5.5x
- made new testing procedure to validate AlNiCo magnets, using Helmholtz coil, fluxmeter, and 3D-printed slider fixture
- conducted root cause analysis with Pareto, scatter, and Weibull charts to lower reject rates of magnetic latching relays by 16%
- collected measurements with oscilloscopes and Gaussmeters (coil resistance, activation voltage, arm bounce time, overtravel, etc.)
engineering intern at pyro-e
sept 2021 - jan 2022
- achieved 3rd place in the DoE Ocean Observing BUILD Contest with a piezoelectric mechanical eel
- fabricated the robust waterproof exterior with fiberglass-epoxy composite shells, using vacuum-bagged wet layup on fiberglass sheets
- built a makeshift eel prototype with two Bevel gearboxes, sheet metal, stepper motors, and 3D-printed parts
- ran a propulsion test in a water tank using a strain gauge load cell with said prototype
program creator at ucla engineering transfer center
jun 2021 - sept 2021
- created an engineering transfer bridge program for newly admitted ucla students (find these students at NASA, Tesla, and Amazon now!)
- planned and ran amazing basic training workshops and a sprawling 72-hour hackathon
- brought the hackathon challenge (Arduino car driven by Bluetooth commands, an IR controller, and autonomously) from ideation to design to reality
- miscellaneous pictures
