Capstone & ASME Award 2019-2020

Remote Water Quality Management in Madagascar, ASME Award and Grant

• Motivation/premise was the ability of low-cost microcontrollers such as Arduino to enable a new generation of accurate low-cost sensing tools for use in developing countries. Project was designed around parts that would be available “off-the-shelf” in third world countries
• Submitted concepts and proposal ASME, won design award and grant
• Used this as a great opportunity to improve my CAD design, analysis, simulation, and rendering
• Designed, simulated, and manufactured 3D-printable float to keep a surface sensor submerged as well as house our microcontroller

Stayed at University over Spring Break, had the 3D printing lab to myself, set up a camera and streamed the 3D print on Twitch so I could watch the progress from my apartment and drive to school as the prototypes finished printing

This project was installed in Madagascar following the completion and validation of the project