Wind Turbine

Led a team to develop a proposal for a theoretical wind turbine including selection of construction site, schematics for mechanical components, and justification for decisions based on technical analysis.

• Analyzed local wind conditions to determine the maximum stresses caused by high-speed wind gusts.

• Designed high-quality power transmission/gearing to avoid fatigue failure during operation with a safety factor ≥ 2.

• Drafted support tower dimensions to avoid buckling while minimizing the surface area to avoid wind drag.

Fluid Mechanics

Created a program using Matlab that took user-inputted data and instructions about any given piping system and through recursive calculations recommend various parameters such as pipe diameter, pump speed, flow rate, etc.

• Analyzed a given specifications sheet for a generic pump to develop optimization formulas to find peak efficiency for any conventional pump.

• Collected information on material costs to recommend the lowest cost given initial system requirements.