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Class of 2017 Mechanical Engineering

Josh Brown

Hi! My name is Josh, and I'm a recent graduate of Tufts University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I am an extremely dedicated worker, and my primary interests are in robotics, mechanical design, and music production. This past summer, I worked as an intern at Bose Corporation in the R&D department, where I conducted research and performed experiments in order to make design improvements to Bose's products. I also have experience with HVAC engineering and control systems through my internship with Schneider Electric, and have financial experience from my role as CFO of Tufts Student Resources, a student-run company at Tufts University providing services to students such as dry-cleaning, fridge rental, and fitness classes. I am currently teaching math and music at Swiss Semester, a three-month long program in Zermatt, Switzerland known for its rigorous academics and challenging outdoor adventures. When I'm not in the machine shop, you can find me playing guitar, drums, and writing songs, playing basketball and football with my friends, or playing fetch with my golden retriever!

Projects

The Rover Writer 1

This was the final project for my advanced robotics class. Our goal was to design a robot that could take in an image, process it, and then recreate it on paper. The method we decided to use was that of a mobile printer – the wireless device goes through the image one pixel at a time starting with t…

May 23 2017 Read →

Elevated Bicycle Storage System

For my senior design project, my group was tasked with building a way to provide professors' and students' with an indoor storage option for their bicycles. We followed an in-depth design process, eventually building an elevated storage system mounted on the wall in the Bray Laboratory, one of the…

Dec 22 2016 Read →

Remote-controlled Robotic Car

For this project, my team and I created a myRio-powered car that could be controlled by a tilt-sensing remote. The remote contained a second myRio, which has an accelerometer inside of it that can sense which direction the Rio is being tilted in. This allowed us to write a program that would spin…

Oct 25 2016 Read →

Amusement Park Design Project

For this project, my team and I used Solidworks modeling to design an amusement park ride. Our ride, the 'Turtle Twister', is able to swing back and forth, as well as rotate, all the while making sure that its passengers don't experience more than 3 g's of acceleration so as to ensure their safety.…

Oct 23 2016 Read →

Solidworks Beam Deflection Project

This project was for my Machine Design class. We were given a template to work with, with holes in the upper left, bottom left, and bottom right corners, with the bottom two holes to be fixed and a 4 pound force to be applied downward at the top hole. The template can be seen in the image below. We…

Oct 23 2016 Read →

Harry Potter Visual Basic Quiz/Mini Game

For my introductory class on computer tools for engineers, we spent a lot of time learning how to use Microsoft Excel's Visual Basic Editor to write complex spreadsheet formulas, as well as form coding. For my final project, I decided to create an interactive, Harry Potter-themed quiz game on…

Oct 19 2016 Read →

Prosthetic Leg Materials Research Paper

This was my final project for my Engineering Materials class, and was a culmination of all the information and data on materials we had learned throughout the course. I researched several materials commonly used in prosthetic limb design, and then selected which ones I would use to construct a leg,…

Oct 19 2016 Read →

Second Image Processing Robot

This is essentially a new and improved version of the original Image Processing Arm I built, only with a much improved hardware system, a modified code, and a new way of importing the picture. One of our main issues with the previous arm was that it was fairly unstable, so I completely rebuilt the…

Oct 19 2016 Read →

Second Image Processing Robotic Arm

This is essentially a new and improved version of the original Image Processing Arm I built, only with a much improved hardware system, a modified code, and a new way of importing the picture. One of our main issues with the previous arm was that it was fairly unstable, so I completely rebuilt the…

Oct 19 2016 Read →

The 'Yayguitar'

This project was for my class on Music in Engineering. This was one of my favorite projects, as it combined my interest in design with my passion for music, and allowed me to create a brand new type of instrument. I worked with a team to design the hardware for a completely acoustic instrument (no…

Oct 14 2016 Read →

Image Processing Robotic Arm

For this project, we were tasked with designing a robot attached to a camera that could take a snapshot of a drawn letter, process the image, and then send the image to a robotic arm that would subsequently draw the letter. In order to solve the problem, my partner and I attached an external webcam…

Oct 12 2016 Read →

Speaker Design Project

This was my final project in my introductory mechanical engineering class from Freshman year about the fundamentals of electronics in music production. I really enjoyed this class because it combined by interest in mechanical design with my passion for music, and for my final project, my team and I…

Oct 12 2016 Read →