Hannah Nguyen

Engineering Portfolio

working with the flapper!
working in the lab!
working with motors for art-tech installation!
another lab!
bringing supplies to SEC garage for blackbox painting!
motor board!
creating a proof of concept for glow grid!
working on motor board!
blackbox kinetic motion!
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Using scans to create basic BVC CAD
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CAD of 1 basic variant
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Mold CAD
FEA Animation
Casting!
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Basic Centrum Geometry
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Lauder Flapper!

Research Internship: Biomimetic Vertebral Columns (BVCs)!

For my spring semester as well as summer, I worked with a gradudate student in the Stephanie E Pierce Lab to replicate early tetrapod spinal morphology in 3Matic (a CAD software mainly used for bio/medical engineering purposes)! We also 3D designed molds for the silicone parts of the model and used a 3D printer to mass-produce.








Bridge Competition

As part of the ES120 Bridge Building Competition, our team engineered a high-performance arch bridge constructed from plywood, spanning 12 inches with a 2 inch height, adhering to a 6:1 span-to-depth ratio to prevent buckling and minimize deflection. On the Instron, our bridge achieved a 1250:1 strength-to-weight ratio, supporting 250 kgf at only 0.2 kg and complied with strict spatial constraints!

Bridge CAD Model
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Laser Cutting!
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→ Final Bridge!
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FEA Analysis
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Assembly!
Testing on the Instron!







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Final Robot
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3D Model of Final Robot
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Building Drivetrain
Robot in Action
Claw Demo
3D Claw Model

Turf Wars Robot:"Fantastic"

Our team designed and built a compact robot with a gear-train forklift and claw combo, all fully 3D CAD-modeled in SolidWorks and created entirely from scratch using the lathe, CNC mill, 3D-printer, laser cutter, horizontal and vertical bandsaws, drill press, and a motor dissected from an electronic screwdriver.








Dance Dance Glow Grid

The Glow Grid is an interactive game that combines Dance Dance Revolution and Whack-a-Mole, designed to test players' reaction times while encouraging movement and fun. The project features a wooden frame containing hand-made pressure-sensitive dance tiles connected to LED strips.

First Prototype
Debugging
Final Gameplay!
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Testing at fair!
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Circuit Schematic
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Final code







Building Walls (6)
LOTS of Moving
Painting!
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BlackBox Gallery

BlackBox Gallery is a project I co-founded for my club Conflux (Art Tech). We wanted to create a showcase room that could be altered however wanted by student artists. It ended up being a 16 x 12 x 10 ft room.