Responsible for the development of chassis and drivetrain of Lunar Mining Robot.

Design gussets, chassis members, and tread pattern, accounting for stress concentrations utilizing Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software.

Work with other subteams to determine mounting position of various robot components, perform tolerance stackup, ensure no collisions of equipment during operation.

Choose drivetrain motors, perform trade study including performance metrics (motor torque, top speed, motor tare weight, ease of mounting)

Fabricate components and assemble chassis.

Responsible for development of entire Lunar Mining Robot, as well as team development and intercommunication.

Work with Campus officials to grow team representation and awareness on campus.

Build relationships with local and international sponsors, to allow team access to better materials to build robot. Industry connections include manufacturing partners and component-level donations, as well as monetary and mentorship contributions.

Perform mechanism design for fold-out mining system, ensuring proper tolerance stackup and minimal collision during usage.

Redesign mining buckets for better performance in loose gravel, and for renewed NASA sizing constraint. Develop simulated mining run to analyze best-performing bucket geometry.

Present robot and systems engineering procedure at regional and international Aerospace conference. Please see link for access to AIAA publication:

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2021-0581

Use senior-level experience to teach younger members engineering concepts (FEA, Assembly design, Testing procedures) as well as competition-specific information (Soil mechanics, remote operation of robots, design for extra-terrestrial environments).

Perform Finite Element Analysis on components of robot. Ensure critical components are properly secured and supported.

Establish connections with industry through other professional organizations on-campus. Facilitate meetings between students and industry partners and foster growth in both sponsorship and mentorship.

Guide small teams to perform testing and analysis of important concepts (Digging, drivetrain development) to be presented at regional Aerospace conference. Act as subject matter expert for prior experience presenting research paper.