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Engineering Projects

Professional and Student Projects
Haptic Communication for Collaborative Robotics

2025

Haptic Communication for Collaborative Robotics

Exploring the role of haptic communication in human-robot collaboration

Helping Young Autistic Adults Make Good Outwear Choices

2024

Helping Young Autistic Adults Make Good Outwear Choices

We designed an app prototype and an associated wearable sensor set for helping young autistic adults at a local day program use their own past observations about preferred outwear in different weather conditions, personal data about body temperature, and the current and predicted weather during their outing to choose appropriate outerwear before going outside.

Accessible Makerspaces and Hackathons for Assistive Technology

2023

Accessible Makerspaces and Hackathons for Assistive Technology

Building an accessible, hybrid-by-design makerspace and hackathon series for adaptive technology

JumBot

2022

JumBot

Teaching children about categorization and artificial intelligence without the use of a computer or tablet.

Cylindrical Inscription Arm

2021

Cylindrical Inscription Arm

A robotic arm that can write the team's initials on a surface.

Raspberry Pi Analog Clock

2021

Raspberry Pi Analog Clock

A laser-cut wooden, geared analog clock with the escapement gear moved by a servomotor driven by a Raspberry PiZeroW

EV3 LEGO Robot

2021

EV3 LEGO Robot

Various adventures of the EV3 Robotics Kit

TriMonkey

2021

TriMonkey

Brachiating robot

Robopult

2021

Robopult

Robot that autonomously identifies the faces of players before throwing the ball to them with a flywheel system

Balancing Robot

2021

Balancing Robot

Double pendulum balancing system on a freewheel cart

ModPods: Future Travel System

2021

ModPods: Future Travel System

Design of a modular, pod-based transportation system for multimodal, transfer-free local, regional, intercontinental or even interplanetary travel

Mighty Mom Utility Belt

2014

Mighty Mom Utility Belt

First Prize Winner of the MIT "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Hackathon, a fashionable, discreet, hands-free wearable pump that automatically logs and analyzes the user's personal data.

AN/TPY-2 EEC thermal management system

2010

AN/TPY-2 EEC thermal management system

Thermal management for an all-weather command and control datacenter

Zumwalt DDG-1000

2009

Zumwalt DDG-1000

Shock and vibration isolation for commercial computing equipment in a naval combat enviroment

SWARM

2005

SWARM

Self-assembling, Wireless, Autonomously-Reconfigurable Module system
MIT Senior Capstone design project 2004-2005
Supported by a $30,000 grant from DARPA

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