During the Spring semester of 2021, four mechanical engineering students and I partnered with Blue Robotics, for our capstone project. This project encompassed the development of the first prototype of a seafloor imaging towfish that Blue Robotics has continued developing into a marketable product. Despite logistical complications caused by COVID-19, the team managed to build and test three prototypes in 98 days. The final prototype, the BlueFish, met the client's requirements, though several areas of improvement and refinement were identified.

High-speed video is an integral part of prosthetic heart valve durability testing, especially given the updates in ISO 5840-1:2021 that place greater emphasis on leaflet kinematics. As such, one of my responsibilities while on co-op at Vivitro Labs was to design and specify a high-speed camera system for a new Accelerated Wear Tester (AWT) that could be efficiently transferred between testing units with consistent valve framing and image quality. By the end of my co-op term, I had specified a lens for aortic valves, designed and tested multiple camera mounting and lighting prototypes, and refined camera and light mounting designs.