I was a four year member of the Johns Hopkins Baja SAE team, Blue Jay Racing. During my first year on the team I trained to become the team's welder. As such, I spent much of my first year training in the machine shop and practicing my welding technique. Despite this time commitment, I also took on the responsibility of designing the steering rack. I improved the steering rack over the previous designs by reducing mass and overall footprint. When it was time to manufacture the car I was responsible for all of the welding - both for our custom roll cage and for our suspension linkages. In my second season, I designed the frame of the car. After having welded the frame during the previous year I determined that I could design a frame that was easier for welder to fabricate. I leaned on that experience to design what was, at the time, our lightest and most accurate frame yet and made structural changes to the engineering and procurement process that enabled lighter and more accurate frames for future iterations of the vehicle.

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During my third year I began to move away from being a design engineer to more of a subsystem manager. I took over responsibility for suspension system architecture and design. With a focus on early season testing and sensitivity studies, I designed a suspension that was more friendly to drivers across a wide range of drive skill level. Finally, in my fourth year, I was elected Team Captain. In this role I acted as the Project Manager, Chief Engineer and Acquisitions Manager for the team.

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For more information on my tasks, methods, achievement and photos of Blue Jay Racing, visit this page.