Leading a team of undergraduate students as part of Rowan University Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Institute, I am designing 400 kHz working head with high frequency switching circuit for automated synthesis of carbon-carbon composites for industrial applications. I am actively developing safety protocols and embedded systems with STM32F746 for monitoring coil temperature, discharging the working head, and emergency stop user inputs. The design includes a control system on the microcontroller as well to monitor coil temperature and regulate with water cooling. All the circuits developed for the project are being simulated with Spice to verify theoretical functionality before laying out a printed circuit board. The induction furnace has been prototyped with a modular circuit design focused around 2 printed circuit boards of surface mount components designed in Altium Designer and I assembled the boards in house with a semi-automatic pick and place machine.

As the design lead, I coordinate 3 other undergraduate students to create research goals for immediate day to day tasks as well as long term tasks to achieve a final working prototype. I work to ensure that I understand how different parts of the project integrate together to provide my specific areas of expertise in practical design, automation, and project management as well as bring multiple systems together during testing, tuning, and assembly. This overview allows me to lead design reviews and delegate tasks necessary for modifying the design or integrating different subsystems. The team works together to give weekly progress updates in the form of a presentation to our engineering advisor and graduate students.