Projects – by topic

This list is in alphabetical order. View in chronological order.

Sustainability

Algae + Fiber Optics – Increasing algae yield

Climate Change Predictions – Final project for Intro to Ecology

CO₂-free Hydrogen Production – Building system components for continuous pyrolysis reactor

Electricity Grid Analysis – Data pipeline for power plant emissions analysis; published paper (2020)

Energy Storage – Grid-scale thermal and compressed air energy storage

Evaporative Cooling – Quantifying effects of material choice and wind speed on cooling

Low Carbon Air Freight – Decarbonizing overseas freight transport

Low Carbon Cooling – Multi-stage evaporative cooler

Mycelium – internship at Ecovative Design

Water Quality Sensing – Swarming robots to dynamically collect water quality data

Mechanical

2.007 Robot – Designed and built competition robot

Climber – Hackathon project for a medical stretcher concept

Deck Shuffler – Group project for Intro to Making

DIY Flashlight – Product of machine shop training

Drip Irrigation – Control system to prove feasibility and lower system cost; published conference paper (2019)

Edge-lit Sign – Project for Intro to Making

Iron Man Yo-yo – Design and Manufacturing team project

Silk Structures – Fabricating a tensegrity structure for silkworms

Soft Robotic Hand – Explored what a multi-material printer can do; published paper (2018)

Programming

Signature Tracking – Final project for Numerical Computation

Financial Transparency Tool – Visualizing MIT’s sponsored research funding