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GPA - 3.95
EGR186 - HONORS
Introduces the design process, problem-solving techniques, teaming skills, oral and written communication skills, and tools for success in academic and professional careers. Multiple hands-on projects.
ME180 - COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Fundamentals of graphical communications, including sketching, computer-aided drafting, design, and parametric modeling via SOLIDWORKS.
CS122 - PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
Introduces computer programming for engineers, scientists, and math majors via MATLAB. Emphasizes problem solving, algorithms, and structured programming.
CSS122L - PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE LAB
Provides guided practical experience with applied engineering and science-oriented programming problems via MATLAB.
SOPHOMORE YEAR
PHY262 - UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II
Second course in the three-semester, calculus-based, introductory physics sequence. Electricity, magnetism, and thermodynamics.
CENE251 - STATICS
Fundamentals of applied mechanics, vector algebra, equivalent force systems, equations of equilibrium, structures, centroids, friction, moments of inertia.
ME286 - DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
The process of engineering design, mechanisms and controls, teamwork and project management, written and oral communications. Presents and analyzes manufacturing processes, including machining, forming, and assembly. Discusses automation of these processes, primarily from the machine-tool operation point of view (i.e., computer numerical control).
ME286L - DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING LAB
Introduction to basic processes, including milling, turning, welding, measurements, and automated machining.
ME240 - MATERIALS SCIENCE
Relationships between the microstructure of materials and their physical and engineering properties. Basic metallurgy/ceramic/polymer science; processing, structure, properties, and performance of engineering materials.
ME252 - DYNAMICS
Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies using vector analysis; solution methods: force-mass-acceleration, work and energy, impulse and momentum, translating and rotating coordinate systems.
CENE253 - MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Effects of axial, flexural, torsional, and combined stresses on elastic beams, shafts, and columns.
ME291 - THERMODYNAMICS I
Energy and entropy concepts, applications; first and second law principles, applications to processes and cycles.
JUNIOR YEAR (CURRENT)
ME395 - FLUID MECHANICS I
Theory, concepts, and usage of the basic laws of fluid mechanics (conservation of mass, momentum, and energy); hydrostatics; control volume and differential analysis; incompressible and compressible flows: Bernoulli's equation; Navier-Stokes equations; dimensional analysis and similitude; empirical methods; applications to engineering problems.
CENE225 - ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Students will be introduced to some of the most common kinds of statistical and probability analysis problems found in their upper division course work, and eventually the engineering workplace. Students will be introduced to and then analyze problems typically found in engineering: graphical and numerical descriptive statistics; discrete and continuous random variables/distributions; probability, descriptive and inferential statistics; sampling error; experimental design; hypothesis testing and regression; curve fitting and correlation.
CENE253L - MECHANICS OF MATERIALS LAB
This laboratory-based course accompanies the content of CENE 253 Mechanics of Materials and includes experiments involving the measurement of mechanical properties of engineering materials. Labs include stress-strain, buckling, and torsion testing, beam bending and strain in trusses.
EE188 - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I
Introduces electrical engineering including DC and AC circuit analysis, operational amplifiers, transducers, transformers, and AC power.
EE188L - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I LAB
Introduces AC and DC circuit analysis concepts, electrical lab instruments, and electrical circuit simulation, construction and testing.
ME365 - MACHINE DESIGN I
Fundamentals of mechanical design; stress, deflection, material selection, strength, and design principles; design of mechanical elements: screws, gears, shafts, and springs.
Class: ME180 - COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Description: Research and design of a complex SOLIDWORKS assembly involving >10 parts with 1 minimum import part from McMaster-Carr add-in, with a drawing featuring a bill of materials. My choice was a counter rotating wind turbine, which is a rare energy generation solution with higher effiency than traditional wind turbines, but at higher mechanical complexity and cost. Completely modeled by hand, the assembly file features a working bevel gearbox and rotors.
Skills: Computer-Aided Design
Class: ME286 - DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
Description: Design of a "STEM Kit" marketed toward middle and high schoolers, teaching STEM principles through a projectile-launching toy. The toy features six sets of holes for dowel placement, anchoring a rubber band and letting users experiment with how varying elongation affects projectile range. To evaluate the design during prototyping, a quantitative analysis model was built in Excel, modeling the rubber band as a linear spring and applying work-energy principles to predict range from proposed design characteristics. The final design was primarily laser-cut balsa wood to minimize cost, while the arm was left as high-infill FDM-printed ABS to withstand the stresses of repeated use. Final per-unit cost, including labor, came to $5.17, ensuring market competitiveness.
Skills: Computer-Aided Design, Design for Manufacturing, Economics of Engineering
Class: ME286L - DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING LAB
Description: Fully machined C-Clamp. Main body made on mill, with handle, screw, and press turned on the lathe. Hole for the screw made on drill press with threads cut by hand. Project success criteria required all dimensions to be within a tenth of those specified on drawing, and my parnter and I were within range on every one.
Skills: Lathe, Mill, Drill Press
Class: ME286L - DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING LAB
Description: Wrote the G-Code by hand to cut engrave me initials into a block of HDPE.
Skills: G-Code, CNC