University of Waterloo
Wind Harnessing Technology for Automotive Application
Developed a brand new concept of harvesting wind energy by replacing the radiator fan to a small scale high speed wind turbine.
London Canada
2021 - Current
USA - Concord
2020 - 2021
USA - Alameda
2019 - 2020
USA - Cupertino
2018
Germany - Hamburg
2017
Canada - St. Catherines
2016
Canada - Guelph
2016
Canada - Waterloo
2015
University of Waterloo (Canada) - Class of 2019
April 2019
Developed a brand new concept of harvesting wind energy by replacing the radiator fan to a small scale high speed wind turbine.
After, the invention of CAD and CAE tools drafting and analysing complex designs has been made cheap. However, understanding the limitation of FEA tools is critical to design these parts. In addition, validation and calibration of the model is necessary! In this paper, all of these concepts have been dicussed to a greater extent.
Composite materials have unpredictable properties and there are no robust simulation tools present to examine this. Hence, a lot of DoE's are conducted in order to find the experimental stress (σ) - strain (ε) relationship. Similar approach was taken to find the tensile strength and strain of a composite material made of household materials. The fiber used was ⅛ hardwood dowel, and hot glue as matrix.
In Topological Optimization, the results you obtain are in the form of density fields. These are called "bionic" structures. Also note that, bionic shapes are hard to map into a geometrically constrained structure. During my time here, my task was to take bionic shapes and map them to geometrically constrained structures. This was done by using NURBS curves and density gradients.
As the first year of the EcoCAR 4 (Cheverolet Blazer) competition, it was critical to design the exhaust system as soon as possible. For the reason that, this sub system was the bottle neck for the last competition year. Hence, after breadth and depth research on the workings of a exhaust system, a final design was proposed.
General Motors have a rich history in making automobiles. Their process is state of the art when it comes to manufacturing high performance and/or luxury vehicles. During my time here, I was tasked to improve first time quality rate of the GenV engines (V8 Engines). The two bottle neck operations were the unload and cold test station. Hence, I led an engineering team of 7 people to undertake this project and improved the first time quality by 5%.
In the world of manufacturing, not only one has to build parts that are to user specifiaction, as well as, build them in high volume. During my time here, our facility was switching from low volume to a high volume factory. My tasks were to aid in rapid prototyping of Ford & GM transmisions. As well as designing measuring tools and fixtures to measure the quality of your product, such as various thread, Go/NoGo, bore and depth gauges for the parts manufactured.
Designed an Underwater ROV mechanical structure that would give the most aerodynamic performance. The inspiration came from designing the ROV in the form of a water droplet, which is one of the most aerodynamic shape in order to cut through the fluid in the efficient way.
Currently, visually impaired people understand their surroundings through the use of a walking stick, a guide dog, or another active form of inputs, which limits them to active or indirect forms of environmental input. VisionVest aims to create a passive and direct way for visually impaired people to avoid immediate obstacles. By leveraging sensory substitution, a tactile vest with vibration motors is used to give the user feedback on their surrounding to assist them with avoiding obstacles.
To understand key concepts of numerical methods and it's limitations, a bridge was designed and built from Balsawood that was optimized for weight to strength ratio. After the design iterations, several stress analysis simulations were conducted using ANSYS AIM. The model was calibrated and validated by placing actual weight on the bridge until failure.
As a car enthusiast I wanted to play racing games that were running on good physics engines. However, playing with the joystick was not fun as the pad and other peripherals were too sensitive. Hence, I bought a steering wheel set Logitech G920! But, the problem was that there was no good ride height table and chair at home to attach the simulator to, and the off market solution were too expensive. This led to the idea to manufacture an ergonomic yet cheap design of the racing simulator.