Projects & Volunteering
The LSAMP Summer Bridge Program is a summer program where minority students coming into college, having declared an engineering major, will be able to take preliminary math, science, and programming courses while living on-campus in order to prepare for the academic, social, and environmental changes they will face as full-time engineering students.
As a mentor, it was my job to make sure to share my first-year experiences with the Bridge students in order to give them an idea of what they should expect coming into the university. In the classroom, I acted as a Teaching Assistant for MATH140 [Calculus I] and I reinforced important calculus concepts, helped them complete their nightly homework, aided them in studying, as well as prepared them for full examinations they were expected to pass during the duration of the program. Outside of the classroom, I helped guide them in choosing their first year courses, making their four-year plans, advising them on healthy college practices, and share interesting stories of success and failure during my first year.
The University of Maryland Hovercraft Project is a preliminary engineering project for all engineering majors. This project is the main focus of ENES100, or Introduction to Engineering Design, where we focus on picking up the basic aspects of engineering such as team work, time management, and task delegation. As a student, you are randomly placed in a group of 10-13 students and you are given a set of instructions. For this project we had to create an autonomous hovercraft that had to follow a black line in order to enter an arena. Once inside the arena, the hovercraft had to detect a beaconing light and approach it in order to secure a payload.
I was designed the leader of the construction group. The tasks of the construction group included: creating CAD drawings for each of the components, calculating hovercraft size, calculating inertia and weight in order to determine the placement of components, creating and attaching the skirt, and making sure the hovercraft was ready to complete its assigned tasks. Outside of the duties of the construction group, as a leader I made sure we were working efficiently, the work was accurate, and everything came together as it was supposed to.
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Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Bridge Program Mentor
University of Maryland ENES100 Hovercraft Project
Construction Subgroup Leader
Share Food Network
Distrubtor Volunteer
Working for the Share Food Network was a very rewarding experience. I would usually volunteer during the holiday seasons and as a volunteer I would distrbute food to families in need. It helped give me an understanding of social struggles that I was unable to experience before coming to college.
Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Bridge Program Mentor
Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Bridge Program Mentor
Capstone at the University of Maryland is the culmination of all the knowledge we have obtained through our careers at the university. Students are forced to pool together our knowledge in order to create a fully functioning prototype by the end of the semester. Students are given the freedom to choose their group members (groups usually have 5 or 6 students) and their ideas as long as they fall within a pre-determined set of guidelines set by the professors. At the end of the semester aside from the working prototype, students are responsible for two things: a final report and a presentation at the A. James Clark School of Engineering's Design Day. The report includes the steps that were taken in order to reach the final prototype. The presentation is judged by visiting grade school students, professors, and industry judges on design, functionality, and innovation.
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For our project, my group chose to create an automated drain/grate cleaner. Above you can see a video of my group testing our final product (we had to make some adjustments to the belt). Below a copy of the final report that was submitted at the conclusion of the semester.
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