Mechanical Engineering
.My goal is to use art and reasoning to make your life better.
It's just that simple.
My engineering working experience started in production line support for Raytheon's Multi-Spectral Targeting systems. When mounted onto the nose of aircraft, these systems look like a modern day R2-D2s and are made of several cameras and targets. It was then that I began to see that no engineering work is separate from ethical considerations. The goal in mind was to increase national and border safety, but it's not that simple.
I also spent a year in undergraduate research to see if we could predict cognitive distraction in drivers. We used video, various sensor data and user input to build our model. With ethical concerns of privacy and bias in user input, the goal to increase safety on the roads doesn't come without these complications.
Even with three summers at Texas Instruments working on semiconductor electronics packaging -- which involves the materials, assembly and durability of routing signals from mostly silicon dies to a circuit board -- I still see that even something as seemingly neutral as individual electronic components have political and social implications. The goal is to enable all electronics from our cellphones to our cars to be more efficient, sleeker and safer, but where are the chip materials sourced from, where are they assembled, and who controls the cash and policy flow?
I came to Stanford to dig deeper into design methodology in engineering for a masters and meet the people here. Now I have the following projects to show off. More importantly, I worked on my ability to focus on the end user's needs when engineering any product while dancing with the ambiguity that comes from ethical, cultural and technical considerations. I have decided to focus my efforts on climate change and currently am pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering researching electrifying endothermic chemical reactors through power electronics induction heating.
Even though my work and its implications have not been simple, my goal still is simple.
My goal is to use art and reasoning to make your life better.
Better in terms of reducing greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. A healthier planet.
Dolly Mantle
It's just that simple.
My engineering working experience started in production line support for Raytheon's Multi-Spectral Targeting systems. When mounted onto the nose of aircraft, these systems look like a modern day R2-D2s and are made of several cameras and targets. It was then that I began to see that no engineering work is separate from ethical considerations. The goal in mind was to increase national and border safety, but it's not that simple.
I also spent a year in undergraduate research to see if we could predict cognitive distraction in drivers. We used video, various sensor data and user input to build our model. With ethical concerns of privacy and bias in user input, the goal to increase safety on the roads doesn't come without these complications.
Even with three summers at Texas Instruments working on semiconductor electronics packaging -- which involves the materials, assembly and durability of routing signals from mostly silicon dies to a circuit board -- I still see that even something as seemingly neutral as individual electronic components have political and social implications. The goal is to enable all electronics from our cellphones to our cars to be more efficient, sleeker and safer, but where are the chip materials sourced from, where are they assembled, and who controls the cash and policy flow?
I came to Stanford to dig deeper into design methodology in engineering for a masters and meet the people here. Now I have the following projects to show off. More importantly, I worked on my ability to focus on the end user's needs when engineering any product while dancing with the ambiguity that comes from ethical, cultural and technical considerations. I have decided to focus my efforts on climate change and currently am pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering researching electrifying endothermic chemical reactors through power electronics induction heating.
Even though my work and its implications have not been simple, my goal still is simple.
My goal is to use art and reasoning to make your life better.
Better in terms of reducing greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. A healthier planet.
Dolly Mantle
Picman Boat
Website Design for the third and final team project in a graduate mechatronics course series
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Rotolatch
Website Design for Mechanical Ingenuity, includes work done for my undergraduate capstone project
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DNES
It's flipping how we send construction materials. Year-long team project with sponsorship from Volvo Group
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Bond's Boat
Website Design for my team project in a graduate mechatronics course series
I made this on a free hosting site with WordPress and the site is not secure but it is the right link |
TacoBot
Website Design for my team project in a graduate mechatronics course series
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