Engineering Projects

Experimental Vibrations

An experiment developed to study and control nonlinear vibrations that can occur in bladed disks of turbomachinery

Stochastic Simulations

A methodology developed to estimate the stochastic response and quantify the probability of transitions into undesired vibration modes of mechanical systems

Escape Path Optimization

An optimization scheme developed to solve for minimum energy (optimal) escape paths out of undesired vibration modes of mechanical systems

Nonlinearity in Transducers

A year long internship project with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to quantify system errors in transducers that are assumed to be linear in dynamic applications, but are actually slightly nonlinear

Powertrain Controls

An internship project with Ford Motor Company that included developing safety requirements, programming in C, and verification and validation of the requirements via simulation and experiments

NASA Student Launch

A set of extracurricular undergraduate projects developing autonomous ground support equipment and high-powered rockets for NASA student-led competitions