Carthage Sustainability InternAs a member of the Carthage Green Team for 2 years I've worked with other interns to initiate and organize events and interact with the campus community to encourage sustainability-aware mindsets and environmentally clean habits. I'm a manager of recycling processes such as repurposing and recycling electronics and printer materials. I've had an integral role in launching and managing the Carthage Reuse House, where students and faculty are welcomed to donate and pick up items at their convenience. I've also been an event planner and organizer for the inaugural Carthage-UW Parkside Sustainability Summit hosted April of 2022.
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Solar Sam: Solar Energy Installation CompanyFor the summer of 2022, as a solar installer, production assistant, and apprentice electrician I learned the process of designing, installing and wiring a solar array for commercial and residential sites. As a member of the installation team, I followed careful steps to complete solar arrays with a time constraint set by my boss and company customers as stakeholders. I led other workers on repair jobs where we had to identify and solve malfunctioning arrays with only a map of the array and a multimeter at times. When working with the master electricians, I mapped out solar array circuits, installed electric vehicle chargers, integrated optimizers, inverters and combiner boxes. This job required that I be prepared to problem solve in the case that something does not go to plan, and working with such a responsibility reinforced my work ethic.
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Magneto-active Slosh Control ProjectThe Magneto-active Slosh Control (MaSC) project's main objective is to demonstrate active slosh control in a model cylindrical spacecraft propellant tank by means of inducing forces on an integrated metallic membrane, also referred to as a magneto-active propellant management device (MaPMD), by varying an external magnetic field. I worked on this project over my first summer as a Carthage space science intern. I was tasked with analyzing previous flight data on our membrane behavior to determine why the results did not match mathematical predictions. This led me to uncover an understanding that changed the way to the MaSC project progressed. I designed a new MaPMD that for the first time in this projects lifetime successfully demonstrated slosh control. This project changed my view of research and helped develop my ability to tackle open ended questions. MaSC and my work were funded by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC).
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