As technical lead on a six-person Purdue senior design team, I built an assistive necklace that gives visually impaired users 360° spatial awareness through haptic feedback. Eight enclosures ring the necklace, each pairing an infrared time-of-flight sensor (8 m range) with an ultrasonic sensor for close objects; their readings fuse via RMS to drive a dedicated ERM vibration motor. I designed the full device in CAD, wrote the firmware that ties every component together, and built the logic mapping distance to vibration intensity. The proof: wearing it, we navigated our building blindfolded.
A badminton training machine that drills players against real shot types: serve, smash, and more. The player picks a shot on a touchscreen, and the trainer sets its flywheel speed and launch angle to fire shuttlecocks at the matching velocity and trajectory, cycling through feed and launch for continuous practice. On a five-person team, I owned the feeding and storage subsystem (28-shuttlecock capacity, feeding one every 2-3 seconds), led subsystem integration, selected the electronics, programmed the touchscreen controls, and wrote all the firmware. The flywheels reach 15,000 rpm, and the completed build is documented with updated CAD and a demo video.
A custom PC case I'm designing in stainless steel sheet metal as a personal project, built around one goal: make it cheap to fabricate and quick to assemble. I modeled the full case in Fusion 360, designed the panels around sheet-metal fabrication constraints, and verified every bend for manufacturability. Because I can't fund a full metal prototype yet, I 3D-printed key parts to check fit and assembly in the real world. The CAD is complete and validated; the build is paused until I can send the files to a manufacturer.
A touchless automatic mask dispenser built for COVID-era entrances: it drops a single mask the moment a PIR sensor detects a hand. For my sophomore mechanical engineering class, I worked on a four-person team and owned the housing, modeling the body in CAD, applying DFM principles for wood fabrication, and running stress analysis on the wall-mounting joints. We took it to a fully working physical prototype and demonstrated it at the sophomore design showcase.
A two-week competition in my machine design lab: every team got the same motor and battery and had to build a gearbox, within a fixed size limit, that spun an attached turbine as slowly as possible. Highest gear ratio wins. On a three-person team, I co-designed and 3D-printed a multi-stage cycloidal gearbox, iterating rapidly to work around the printer's tolerance limits. Ours reached a 1:1,115,136 reduction packed into a 5×5×5 cm cube, the highest gear ratio in the class. We won.
For my high school senior design project, I designed a folding bicycle that rides like a full-size bike yet folds into a compact form that's easy to wheel alongside you. I taught myself Fusion 360 to run the full product lifecycle: market and user research, ergonomics, anthropometry, and a documented justification for every design decision. I built an early CAD model and a bare-bones physical prototype, and I'm now rebuilding both the CAD model and the physical bike from the ground up (2026).
A feasibility study on using automated disassembly to repurpose end-of-life EV batteries for seated electric scooters, analyzing production costs, market demand, and overall viability.
Led product strategy and design for "Context," an AI-powered app to deepen relationships. Responsible for defining the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD), prototyping the app in Figma, and designing the go-to-market strategy and pitch deck.
Developed a complete product plan for "Context," an AI-powered relationship manager. Responsible for the problem definition, market sizing, target personas, competitive analysis, and solution design.
A gratitude-focused social platform using piggyback prototyping to validate strong-tie network dynamics and authentic moment-sharing behavior among close friends and family.
Analyzed organizational dynamics that enabled successful innovation. Documented inflection points from discovery through breakthrough. Synthesized lessons on org design, incentives, and governance cadences that enabled breakthrough results.
Synthesized iPod's strategic success through hardware-software integration. Mapped three strategic levers: ecosystem lock-in, design excellence, and distribution innovation. Quantified before/after market impact and competitive defensibility.
As technical lead on a six-person Purdue senior design team, I built an assistive necklace that gives visually impaired users 360° spatial awareness through haptic feedback. Eight enclosures ring the necklace, each pairing an infrared time-of-flight sensor (8 m range) with an ultrasonic sensor for close objects; their readings fuse via RMS to drive a dedicated ERM vibration motor. I designed the full device in CAD, wrote the firmware that ties every component together, and built the logic mapping distance to vibration intensity. The proof: wearing it, we navigated our building blindfolded.
A badminton training machine that drills players against real shot types: serve, smash, and more. The player picks a shot on a touchscreen, and the trainer sets its flywheel speed and launch angle to fire shuttlecocks at the matching velocity and trajectory, cycling through feed and launch for continuous practice. On a five-person team, I owned the feeding and storage subsystem (28-shuttlecock capacity, feeding one every 2-3 seconds), led subsystem integration, selected the electronics, programmed the touchscreen controls, and wrote all the firmware. The flywheels reach 15,000 rpm, and the completed build is documented with updated CAD and a demo video.
A custom PC case I'm designing in stainless steel sheet metal as a personal project, built around one goal: make it cheap to fabricate and quick to assemble. I modeled the full case in Fusion 360, designed the panels around sheet-metal fabrication constraints, and verified every bend for manufacturability. Because I can't fund a full metal prototype yet, I 3D-printed key parts to check fit and assembly in the real world. The CAD is complete and validated; the build is paused until I can send the files to a manufacturer.
A touchless automatic mask dispenser built for COVID-era entrances: it drops a single mask the moment a PIR sensor detects a hand. For my sophomore mechanical engineering class, I worked on a four-person team and owned the housing, modeling the body in CAD, applying DFM principles for wood fabrication, and running stress analysis on the wall-mounting joints. We took it to a fully working physical prototype and demonstrated it at the sophomore design showcase.
A two-week competition in my machine design lab: every team got the same motor and battery and had to build a gearbox, within a fixed size limit, that spun an attached turbine as slowly as possible. Highest gear ratio wins. On a three-person team, I co-designed and 3D-printed a multi-stage cycloidal gearbox, iterating rapidly to work around the printer's tolerance limits. Ours reached a 1:1,115,136 reduction packed into a 5×5×5 cm cube, the highest gear ratio in the class. We won.
For my high school senior design project, I designed a folding bicycle that rides like a full-size bike yet folds into a compact form that's easy to wheel alongside you. I taught myself Fusion 360 to run the full product lifecycle: market and user research, ergonomics, anthropometry, and a documented justification for every design decision. I built an early CAD model and a bare-bones physical prototype, and I'm now rebuilding both the CAD model and the physical bike from the ground up (2026).