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Professionally, I've had the opportunity to work on the team at Materials Development Inc in developing advanced containerless processing technology. With Acoustic and Aerodynamic levitation, materials can be studied and processed in a micro-gravity environment, which greatly reduce buoyancy-driven convection, pressure and sedimentation in fluids. This technology is currently being used at various research institutions such as Argonne National Lab, Oak Ridge, and NASA for physics and material science research. They can also be used for processing pharmaceuticals liquids in order to create a more "pure" chemical reaction.

During my time studying at Loyola I had the opportunity to work on some research focused on the physical properties of music wire. This article that I helped co-write with some colleagues is about using a smart phone app to find Young's Modulus of a guitar string. Young's Modulus is a mechanical property that deals with stress and strain of a material. It can be thought of as the stiffness of a material. The paper was published in the The Physics Teacher

Additionally worked on making a heat engine utilizing a nitinol spring and arduino triggering a relay. Nitinol (or nickel titanium) is an alloy that has a unique physical property in that it has a "shape memory" due to its crystalline phase change when heated. Our findings were presented at the Loyola Undergraduate Research Symposium . Here's an image of our Poster and a link to our abstract .

I worked with a group of students to help create more sustainable energy at our University using wind turbines. We presented our findings at Loyola's First Year Research conference in hopes that we could get funding to build a wind turbine on top of one of our residence halls.