Lincoln Electric System (Summer/Fall 2019):

Lincoln Electric System, LES, is a municpal electric utility company that serves the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. I worked there from May 2019 to December 2019 and was a part of the substation team. I worked with the design and protection & controls teams. I learned about protective relaying and faults and how to implement them into substation designs. My largest at the company was to conduct a study that analyzed LES's overcurrent relay settings (50/51). Specifically, my goal was to determine if the instantaneous trip settings were still appropriate. The idea of instantaneous tripping is to open the breaker at the substation should a fault occur on a feeder. If the fault was temporary, ie: an animal, this would prevent the fuse down the line from blowing, saving the linemen the trip to replace it. At the end of the study I presented my findings to the managers of the substation, sytem planning, and SCADA departments. Before I left my reccommeded changes started to be implemented throughout the system.

Iowa State University Teaching Assisstant (Spring 2019 & 2020):

During the spring of 2019 I was a teaching assisant for EE 285 at Iowa State university. EE 285 is Iowa State's "Intro to C Programming" course for electrical engineers. The class aimed for 2nd semester electrical engineering students. The instructor I worked with is Mohammed Yousef Selim. My initial responsibilities as a teaching assitant were to instruct labs as and help grading.

However, it turns out that this was the instructors first time teaching the course and he wanted the teaching assistants more involved. Since I was the TA most familiar with the course, I decided to be more involved with the course. To make the course his own, the instructor really wanted to add a final project that was related to electrical engineering. One day he emailed use about these microcontrollers that he able to get for the class and asked us if we had any ideas for projects. The boards used were TI Launchpad CC3200's and the key feature of the board was that it was able to be connected to wifi. I sent him my idea which was to use to of these boards to communicate with each other to control a led on based on the input gathered by a temperature sensor on the other one. I also reccommeded my project that I made in a previous semester which was to use kernel convolution to filter images. He liked both of my ideas so much that let me design both of the final projects for the class. I wrote the assignment for the project as which you can read here: EE285 Final Project. In addition I also helped the instructor decide some of the later lab assignments. One notable Lab was the final one which was about linked lists. The lab was orginally designed to be included with the image filtering labs, but I noticed that some students were struggling with these labs so I suggested we make a similiar lab but use the same concepts. He agreed and we changed the lab to have the students create a linked list which resembled a mp3 database where they could add, delete, list, and search for song titles.

Bison Gear and Engineering (Summer 2017 & 2018):

Bison Gear and Engineering is a company based in St. Charles, Illinois. I worked there for 2 summers. The first summer I worked with their application engineers, and the second I worked with the quality engineering group. The second summer I was there I worked on a project where my group created a test that would identify noisey gearmotors. Noise was the number one reason gearmotors get sent back, so preventing noisey gearmotors from getting sent to the customer would save the company a lot of money. We used accelerometers as well as signal processing to identify imperfections in motors. Unfortunately, in the time I was there, we only got to the point where we could just identify if a motor was to loud. If I was there longer we would further our analysis to try to identify the root cause of the imperfections which cause the motors to be loud in the first place.