While working in a class 100/1000 cleanroom, I'm putting together a process for pn junction fabrication. Due to our lack of doping capabilities, this has proven a difficult challenge, but thankfully not impossible. The goal is to fabricate my own BJTs from scratch which I can demonstrate on a typical breadboard. Since I'm still working on several machine certifications, all I have to show are diagrams and photos I've taken while working on the project.

For my summer 2024 internship with the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt, I worked with Dr. Andrew Sternberg on the Laboratory Radiation Test Training Simulator. Our efforts were to build the hardware components of a simulator meant to train researchers on how to do Single Event Effects testing. My responsibility was documenting the testing process and creating detailed CAD drawings of the simulator's hardware components, as seen in my poster and attached photo. In addition, I worked on the electrical and software integration of the staging platform controls. The in-progress component of this project is integrating the platform control software with the official TAMU Cyclotron operator controls.

When I joined the Vanderbilt Fusion Project in the fall of my freshman year, I was able to bring my experience building my own fusor to the table. More specifically, I helped refurbish and design the high-voltage electrical system for the project, using an ancient power supply from the 1970s to generate 50kV at 10mA. This creates a large electrical potential in the chamber which is critical for fusion.

My Engineering III class in high school typically focused on having students use Arduino to control electronics. Given my prior experience, my teacher allowed me to work on a project of my choosing for a grade. I chose to build my own vehicle for the technology club mentioned earlier in this portfolio, racing it against other schools. What set my design apart is the integration of a hub-based motor for driving the vehicle and novel battery chemistry.

The technology club which I was heavily involved in at my school, the Technology Student Association, had a team of students working on a small electric vehicle which they raced against other schools. I noticed their rudimentary electrical system and offered to build a control system for their vehicle which let them collect data from each race. The system I built used a raspberry pi, an arduino, and a solar charge controller to find the speed and battery percentage of the vehicle. This data was displayed on a GUI written by another student and plotted in an excell sheet to be analyzed after each race.

Some of my earliest introductions to electrical engineering was finding old radios at the local flea market and attempting to repair them. Living in the mountains, I had a lot of trouble picking up stations with those radios and always ended up driving them to town to test them. As I got older, I decided to build my own transmitter which modulated the output from my iPod and generated a 10MHz carrier wave using a crystal oscillator.

During the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, I worked with my county board of education and STEM department to acquire the high school’s 3D printers and produce reusable PPE that more efficiently used filtering materials for local hospitals. This work led to being invited to speak at the Georgia Department of Education (GADoE) Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) Industry Advisory Board meeting where business leaders from across the state were present. In addition, I was contacted by the University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government for an interview. I was also contacted by multiple news outlets like the local paper and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the AJC unfortunately deciding not to do an article.