Education
General Information
University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering
Major: Computer Engineering
Minor: Mechanical Engineering
Graduation Date: April 2018
GPA: 3.877
Major Design Projects
ECE 1896: Senior Design
Project: Low-Cost, Bluetooth Enabled Bicycle Power Meter
- Worked on a team to design, implement, and test a bicycle power meter to measure a cyclist power output during training
- Used Solidworks to design a load cell to measure strain
- Coordinated with a manufacturer to fabricate the load cell
- Used a full Wheatstone bridge configuration to measure strain on the part
- Performed testing on several variations of the load cell design
- Designed physical hardware layout for the power meter
- Designed, assembled, and tested final PCB board
- Worked on a team to develop a professional proposal for our design
- Assisted in developing Arduino software for converting voltage measurements into power data
ECE 1188: Cyber-Physical Systems
Project: Traffic Light Controller
- Designed an embedded controller for a single intersection traffic light system using the MSP432P401R LaunchPad Development Kit using Code Composer Studio
- Designed and Implemented an embedded finite state machine using low-level embedded C
- Designed hardware for traffic lights, walk request button, and ultrasonic rangefinders
- Designed circuit to convert 5V input/output for rangefinder to/from the 3.3V dev kit pinouts
Project: I2C Thermostat
- Implemented I2C bus for communication with TMP102 temperature sensor
- Implemented I2C protocol
- Used technical documents and datasheets to determine proper communication protocol
- Verified serial signals (SDA and SCL) using a digital oscilloscope
ECE 1160: Introduction to Embedded System Design
Project: Gesture Control Glove
- Worked with a partner to design, implement, and test a gesture control glove for a mini-quadcopter drone
- Chose gestures to be used to control flight
- Developed a method for sensing the selected gestures
- Selected the required sensors, then designed and implemented the glove apparatus
- Designed and implemented an embedded state machine to control drone movement based on sensor feedback
- Implemented Arduino code to interface with sensors and replace stock controller with the glove controller
- Tested and debugged final implementation
Advanced Courses
Computer Engineering
COE 1188: Cyber-Physical Systems
COE 1160: Introduction to Embedded Systems
COE 1502: Advanced Digital Design Concepts
CS 1652: Data Communication and Computer Networks
COE 1530: Software Engineering
COE 1541: Introduction to Computer Architecture
COE 1550: Introduction to Operating Systems
COE 1501: Algorithm Implementation
COE 0449: Introduction to Systems Software
COE 0447: Computer Organization and Assembly Language
Mechanical Engineering
MEMS 1014: Dynamic Systems
MEMS 1015: Rigid Body Dynamics
MEMS 1028: Mechanical Design 1
MEMS 1045: Automatic Controls