Professional Experience
Engineering Instructor, Oregon State University
April 2018-Present
Teaching ENGR 248 and ME 383, for both of these classes I developed new curriculum materials that focused on the different ways students learn.
Senior Mechatronic Design Engineer, Lora DiCarlo
April 2018-January 2020
Integrated design of consumer electronic products from concept through manufacture, managing junior engineering staff, writing SBIR proposals, and carrying out research and development of new products and technologies. I lead mechanical, electrical, and firmware design. Won three CES Design Innovation awards.
Mechanical Engineer, Sphero Robotics Inc/Misty Robotics
December 2014-February 2017
Mechanical design on several products including BB-8 (from Star Wars), SPRK+, Ultimate Lightning McQueen, and the home robot Misty. Additionally, I ran research and development of potential products and feasibility testing.
Analytics Intern, GRANT Engineering
Summer 2013
Development of analysis and decision-making tools for engineering project management.
Engineering and Project Management Intern, Smith Pump Company
Summer 2012
Development of software tools for design and manufacture of pump systems.
Education
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
June 2018
Completed with a 4.0 GPA. My dissertation was on creation and analysis of autonomous decision makers that face risk, uncertainty, and complexity for control of robotic systems and automated design problems. Research partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
May 2016
Received CIE Outstanding Graduate Research Award for my work on risk informed decision making, published an ICED top paper, and was a Mechanical Engineering Department Honoree. Research funding came from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a NASA Early Stages Innovation Grant.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Baylor University
May 2014
Deans Gold Scholarship Recipient, member of the Engineering Honors College, and Math Minor. Additionally, I performed biomechanics and biomaterials research with Dr. Carolyn Skurla including gait modeling and analysis.
Skills
- Computational Cognition
- Robotics and Mechatronics
- Design Automation
- Game Theory
- Decision Theory
- Machine Learning
- Design Theory and Methods (DTM)
- Autonomous Decision Making
- Consumer Product Design
- Project Management
- Mathematical Modeling
- Computer Aided Design
- Programming
- Additive Manufacturing
Publications
Autonomous Decision Making Facing Uncertainty, Risk, and Complexity
Doctoral Dissertation, Published June 2018
A Comparison of Tree Search Methods for Graph Topology Design Problems
International Conference on-Design Computing and Cognition, 2018
Conceptual Design of Sacrificial Sub-Systems: Failure Flow Decision Functions
Research In Engineering Design, 2018
Active Mission Success Estimation through Functional Modeling
Research In Engineering Design, 2018
Autonomous System Design and Controls Design for Operations in High Risk Environments
Proceedings of the ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences
Towards Risk-Informed Operation of Autonomous Vehicles to Increase Resilience in Unknown and Dangerous Environments
Proceedings of the ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences
Design of Autonomous Systems for Survivability through Conceptual Object-Based Risk Analysis
Masters Thesis, Published May 2016
PHM Informed Robotic Mission Control
Proceedings of the AIAA RMS Annual Technical Symposium 2015
Active Mission Success Estimation through PHM-Informed Probabilistic Modelling
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2015
Risk Attitude Informed Route Planning in a Simulated Planetary Rover
Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference August of 2015
Rerouting Failure Flows Using Logic Blocks in Functional Models for Improved System Robustness: Failure Flow Decision Functions
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Engineering Design, July of 2015
Patents
Multi-body self propelled device
WO2017165283 A2
Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Method and Apparatus Made Therefrom
US20170057164A1
Charging Unit for Mobile Devices
US20180191181A1
8 Currently Pending for Consumer Robotic Products
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