Professional and Extracurricular Experience
Cummins Inc. Summer 2018 Internship
Cummins Field Service Engineering - Level III
Over three months in the summer of 2018, I completed an internship with Cummins, a world leading producer of Diesel engines and ancillary equipment. I made substantial and original contributions to a range of projects, each of which inculcated unique skills that mean I can quickly realize tangible gains for your organization. In addition to contributing to all aspects of work life, I worked primarily on the following projects, wherein I gained new experiences in:
Characterizing exhaust system sensor failure modes with data acquisition and analysis:
Data collection practices, conventions and methods
Elementary data analytics and visualization in MATLAB
Refining testing procedures with targeted improvements based on experimental results
Working with data acquisition devices
Bringing in-house a new-to-function engine controller signals simulation system:
Creating instructional documentation
Troubleshooting electronic hardware setups
Extracting and reading data from data buses
Developing controller troubleshooting techniques
Collaborating to develop and document an aftermarket solution for fuel air entrainment issues:
Applying fluid mechanics teachings to make predictions for validation
Conducting test-cell validation experiments
Authoring technical reports
I also gained experience during tear-downs, investigations and volunteering activities, such as:
Interfacing with clients
Safety practices around industrial equipment
Improving and contributing to team atmosphere
Robotics Research with LIDAR at Georgia Tech
Unpaid mechatronics design research in the humanoid robotics lab of Dr Ye Zhao
I worked part time at the Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR) at Georgia Tech in the summer of 2019 [Lab website http://lab-idar.gatech.edu/]. I worked on various projects involving the development of an 'upper body' with controllable spine and arms for the CASSIE bipedal robot platform. Specifically, I worked on:
Designing electrical circuits and PCBs to interface microcontrollers with DC power controllers, actuator position sensors
Teaching and programming implementation of closed loop digital control
Assembling hardware and wiring harnesses
Programming MATLAB tools for real time visualisation of closed loop control performance, for tuning and validation
Stamps President's Scholar Program and Volunteering
Service is a pillar of the program
As a Stamps President’s Scholar, I have contributed to the operations of the program in many ways. I have volunteered in mentoring and hosting finalists. I am currently directing planning for a ‘thread’ about “International Threats to Democracy” at the Stamps Scholars National Convention, held this year in Atlanta. I have volunteered with charitable organizations all around Atlanta working with medical equipment, to cleaning up farmland (as pictured above).
I volunteer at Mechanical Engineering outreach events as regularly as I can, I am also a long time member of Georgia Tech’s library Advisory Board – injecting student voice into library operations.
In high school, I volunteered to teach STEM subjects to lower school students. I tailored 1:1 lessons with students and made myself widely available to them.
Summer 2019 Campus Work
Office of Special Scholarships Student Assistant and Fluid Mechanics Tutoring for the Mechanical Engineering School
As a student assistant I conducted office clerical work, planned program events and researched/created destinations and itineraries for international excursions.
As a tutor in the GWW school of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, I delivered 1:1 tutoring sessions for students enrolled in Fluid Mechanics, after having got the top grade in this class myself.