Design Projects

  • EcoStapler - Staples Global EcoEasy Challenge

    In Fall of 2009, Staples, Inc., the world's largest office supply company, in a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology's Golisano Institute for Sustainability launched the inaugural Staples Global EcoEasy Challenge. Three other female Mechanical Engineering students at UC...
  • UC Berkeley Recycling Bin Redesign

    In a partnership with Campus Refuse and Recycling, the Graduate Assembly Environmental Sustainability Committee, and the Physical Plant Campus Services (PP-CS), the Recycling Bin Redesign project began at UC Berkeley in Spring of 2009. The goal of this project is increase the number of recycling...
  • Habitat for Humanity Furniture Project - Harrison House Homeless Shelter

    Since Spring 2009, I have been part of a team currently designing and fabricating furniture for the Harrison House Homeless Shelter located in the East Bay of California. Our team has been charged with creating furniture for a single-family disabled room that meets sustainability and strict...
  • Boomerang - Basic Engineering Design Graphics Class Final Project

    Our mission was to design and build a prototype of a simple device that will quickly accelerate forward as far as possible, then reverse direction and go backwards as far as possible without passing the point of orgin (i.e., without passing the starting line). The device had to be pointing in...
  • Portable Electronic Devices - Human-Centered Sustainable Product Design Final Project

    During Spring semester of my freshman year (2008), I joined a group of 3 other students to design a more sustainable product in the realm of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs). Over the course of 4 weeks, we came up with uCharge, a green surge protector that would eliminate phantom charge by...