University of Oklahoma - Fall 2020-Fall 2022

Worked remotely as a teaching assistant in the ECE department at the University of Oklahoma for digital design and computer architecture. Provided students assistance during office hours and lab sessions as well as graded assignments. Labs sessions were remote lab sections with 10-20 students per section where I provided real-time problem resolution and debugging assistance.

Developed labs and code for ESP32s/Arduinos so students could complete Digital Design labs remotely. This included writing code for the ESP32s and rewriting documents. The code written focused on ease of use and autotesting to make grading easier. In addition to redesigning labs for remote access, I worked on the digital design course material to improve hands-on learning and improve retention in the ECE majors.

Developed labs and code for a computer hardware course centered around FPGAs to increase the rigor of the course and help students connect industrial ideas to content that they were learning. This included prototyping the lab assignments according to provided specifications, adjusting requirements after the prototypes were complete to make sure that the assignment would be able to be completed, and writing up the assignment and rubric. The labs written were focused on serial communication between the computer and FPGA via UART.

Gecko Robotics - Summer 2020

Worked remotely as an electrical engineering intern at Gecko Robotics. Developing methods to contactlessly detect defects on objects such as pipes, this process centered on utilizing laser scanning and computer vision. Project required Python and OpenCV skills.

Robotics

Sooner Competitive Robotics (SCR) is an umbrella organization at the University of Oklahoma which contains separate competitive robotics teams. SCR has given me the opportunity to work on interdisciplinary teams and become a stronger leader.

IGVC

IGVC, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, is a competition centered on creating autonomous robots that can navigate a course with lanes and obstacles. One area of improvement centered on robot localization. In particular, making the robot's heading converge. I used a particle filter system, with use of Numpy and Pandas for data management, to determine which way the robot was moving.

Mercury Competition

Mercury Robotics is a competition hosted annually by Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. This challenge features a teleoperated robot completing a course with a series of obstacles, including going over a bridge and traversing rough terrain. This competition simulates driving a robot on another planet by making the driver experience communication lag.

During the 2019-2020 season I was the captain of the Mercury team. I led a team of 15 students on different subteams toward competing at the end of the school year, although due to covid our competition was unfortunately canceled. I worked to keep the team on schedule by assigning tasks to the mechanical, electrical, and software subteams and by scheduling design reviews. In addition to the project management aspects of my role, I also worked with members to develop autonomous subroutines and implemented technology to correctly identify an object emitting a 10 Hz pulse among four different objects.

During the 2018-2019 season I led the electrical subteam for the Mercury competition team. During this time, I worked to design and implement the necessary electronic subsystems for a competitive robot. Working together with our other subteams (mechanical and software), our team scored second highest in the competition.

SCR Leadership

In addition to technical aspects, I was also involved with leadership of SCR. I served as the president of SCR. As president I work to coordinate our different teams on various levels and contribute as an active member on all teams. Previously I served in other officer roles and worked to organize events on campus for outreach and recruiting. SCR is actively trying to increase our presence on campus by reaching out to other engineering organizations to co-host events and to volunteer. I worked as the bridge between SCR and these other organizations and help coordinate events to teach others about robotics.

Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WECE) is an organization devoted to improving retention rates in the ECE school at OU and increasing the number of women in ECE and STEM fields. With WECE I have planned events for students in the ECE department focused on educational and social opportunities. These events included soldering nights where our group teaches others the basic of soldering, lab nights where we taught the basics of breadboarding and lab equipment, and advising nights where we brought in professors in the ECE and CS departments to discuss classes with students.