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Two Designs for a Spine Surgery Challenge
Globus Medical sent me a design challenge as part of their interview process. Design an expandable height trial for thoracolumbar corpectomy surgery. Collapsed under 18mm, maximize expansion, 50kg lift, hand-operated. Thats it, the whole instruction set. I designed two completely different solutions and presented them both.
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How I Designed a Custom PEKK Implant
In the fall of 2024 I got the opportunity to briefly join the Drexel Implant Research Center, working in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University. The project was to develop a patient-specific design envelope for spinal implants made from PEKK, aimed at patients with metastatic spinal lesions. I said yes immediately... maybe before I fully understood what I was signing up for.
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Lessons from Collaborative Robotics
For our senior design project at Drexel, my team got paired with B&G Manufacturing, a machine shop which does many things, one of which producing high-precision bolts on CNC lathes. The company wanted to automate it, but third-party solutions were quoting them anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000. Our goal was to build something equivalent for a fraction of that cost. We called the project CRIMMI.
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Building a Reflectivity Fixture from Scratch
During the winter of 2020 into 2021, I was interning at Horiba Instruments and I got handed a problem that sounded simple at first. The team needed a reliable way to measure the reflectivity of paint samples on internal optical components. Their current method was inconsistent. Different engineers, different results, nobody fully confident in the numbers. They handed this to the intern. That intern was me.
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