Designing, Modeling & Fabricating Physical Systems

Engineering from First Principles & Physical Validation

I am a high school senior applying for undergraduate mechanical engineering programs. My passion lies at the intersection of mechanisms, additive manufacturing, and measuring how things actually behave. Rather than treating CAD solely as a digital rendering exercise, I structure all of my models around fabrication constraints, tooling envelopes, and empirical testability.

Throughout my independent projects and workshop builds, I maintain rigorous engineering logs that track failures as actively as successes. Whether I am redesigning a drone-borne sign to survive rotor vibration, fitting a guard to my own hand, or building an Arduino rig to measure the friction of a spinning wheel, I approach physical assemblies with the disciplined documentation and iteration standards of university-level laboratory research.

My collegiate goals center on joining collegiate student design teams (such as Formula SAE or aerospace rocket propulsion teams) while conducting undergraduate research in robotic actuation, lightweight structures, and automated mechanical assemblies.