A little context.

Worked with optomechanical engineers to redesign a telescope primary-mirror mount from blade flexures to bipods, including liquid pinning to absorb assembly tolerance while minimizing mirror stress. Designed the mirror handling plate, produced manufacturing drawings, and developed the handling and bonding concept of operations.

Built a reconfigurable stepper-motor and driver testbench for a focuser mechanism. Brought up and debugged the TMC5262 driver, added browser-based control and telemetry, and used interchangeable load and metrology fixtures to characterize torque, sensorless stall detection, and position accuracy.

Designed and tested optical-payload interfaces, then built two vibration-test rigs with Raspberry Pi data acquisition and accelerometers to evaluate isolation performance.

Designed and prototyped a patent-pending axially mounted gimbal system for networked optical payloads. Contributed embedded C++ attitude-estimation work and a Python vision tool that fed beacon-tracking error into a PID motor controller.

Developed suspension geometry for a multi-occupant solar vehicle, using CAD, MATLAB calculations, and FEA to balance mass, deflection, and safety factor.

Later led the door mechanism work, modeling the door, hinge, and latch and using motion studies and design reviews to resolve integration and manufacturability questions.

Help organize cultural, religious, and community events for Jewish students at MIT.

Help maintain the student-run science-fiction library.

Member of the mechanical engineering honor society.