- Designed, tested, and assembled high-density, injection molded, and submersible optics and communications modules for a backpack sized unmanned ground vehicle (UGV).
- Implemented flow-down requirements for industrial design, ingress projection, keep-outs, and camera FOVs, while tracking mass as a KPI.
- Mitigated camera and flood light heat generation through conductive bridges, novel heat spreaders, and thermal chamber testing.
- Designed plastic injection-molded IP67 enclosures in Creo using skeleton modeling and sealing best practices.
- Optimized the design for the use of carbon-fiber reinforced materials, increasing thermal dissipation but requiring additional electrical insulation.
- Reduced mass, improved ease of assembly, and increased sealing reliability from the initial proof of concept.