December 2023
Repairing and building cars
Project overview: Cars are probably what originally sparked my interest in engineering. I started modifying my cars as soon as I got my first car at 16. Since then, I have acquired 3 cars and each of them has had a tremendous amount of work put into it. I’ve done everything from replacing headlight bulbs to full engine rebuilds on these cars. The car in the picture to the left is a 1992 VW Jetta that has a VR6 engine swap.
1 minute
Maker’s Competition of Design Project
Automatic window blinds operator
Project overview: The MCD (Maker’s competition of Design) is a 4-person project for the Fundamentals of Engineering II class taken by all engineering majors in the Spring of their Freshman year. The entire process took about 2 months from start to finish. The project started with rough idea brainstorming and collecting data from other college students. Once we have a basic idea of what is needed and what is feasible, we needed to draw 10 different conceptual designs with key features for different projects and pick one of them based with a vote.
2 minutes
Freshman engineering project
Project overview: The air engine project is the main project that freshman engineering students at George Fox do in their first term. The basic idea is that you create an oscillating air engine (wobbler engine) from scratch with the tools and materials provided by GFU. In the project, students are expected to come up with an initial concept that is focused on one of 5 goals: speed, cost, torque, efficiency, or coast.
2 minutes
Personal video game design
Project overview: Making video games is a passion of mine, and it helps me apply the things that I have learned in computer science classes in a way that is meaningful to me. I have done all the development of my games in C# in the Visual Studio Code IDE using the Unity game engine. Most of my projects have been to challenge myself and experiment with different concepts. Some of the games that I’ve made include a side-scrolling parkour game, a virtual reality bowling game, and a 2D top-down shooter game made with no external plugins.
1 minute
January 0001
Repairing and redesigning instrumentation on Electrathon racecar
Project overview: Electrathon is a racing event that involves creating the most efficient racecar possible. The goal of the event is to complete as many laps as possible within one hour while only being supplied with 1 kWh of power. At George Fox, there is a team of about 5 people that work on the car. My job on the team is to repair and redesign the driver’s instrumentation. The instrument panel needs to display 4 main things: estimated time left before batteries die, current speed, battery voltage, and temperatures.
1 minute
Sophomore Digital Logic project
Project overview: The Simon project is the final project for the Digital Logic Design class, which is a class for Sophomore computer and electrical engineering students. Simon is an electronic game of short-term memory skill. The goal of the game is to memorize the order that the buttons light up and then repeat the button inputs by memory. Each time you complete a round, the game repeats, but with one more light in the order each time.
1 minute
High school stem summer camp
Project overview: The George Fox Maker Camps are hosted by a group on campus called the Engineering Ambassadors. The Engineering Ambassadors are all students in engineering at George Fox who want to help pre-college students of all ages learn about STEM and engineering. I am one of the 5 leaders that plan and coordinate events with schools in the Portland/Salem area. As for the Maker Camps, they are done over the summer and cater towards high school students who are interested in engineering.
2 minutes