University of Waterloo Formula Electric
With UWFE, I began in my first school term as a battery/driveline member. I quickly fell in love with the team and sought to spend a co-op term with the team. On my co-op, I gained countless hours of experience in all aspects of the team, in design, manufacturing, and analysis phases. My work earned me the position of Differential Responsible Engineer going into my second term of school this spring (2026). I am so excited to continue giving the team my all and learning all I can along the way. Here are some highlights of my work with the team outside of my main projects highlighted here.
On the fly firewall rework
Reworked a 9-part aluminum firewall system for rule-compliance and great servicability. Many pieces didn't fit as intended due to tolerance stackup, so had to modify them within 24 hours. This included: shortenening 3 pieces (1 pictured below), dremeling all parts to account for small errors to allow easy installation, drilling holes for dzus fasteners, brainstorming method of making dzus fasteners stable despite limited lengths available (added rubber to reduce vibration and increase gap between pieces)
The main piece which I had to modify, shortened to fit
Back view of how it was strengthened/sealed
Radiator Fan Shroud Mould Design
Used DFMA to design a mould for the carbon fibre fan shroud to make it easy to demould and post-process. Included added flanges where cuts need to be made and Indents for cutouts.
Shroud immediately post-layup
Fan shroud assembled to radiator
Radiator Rework
The radiators we buy stock have an unnecessarily bulky mounting system, and so I dremeled the old tabs off and designed 2 jigs for new tabs to be welded on, for rads from 2 different suppliers with slightly different geometry. My new tabs also made the radiator easier to assemble onto the car.
First rad jig to weld tabs
Second rad jig to weld tabs
Mounted to the car, with tierod designed by me
Motor Stand
Motor stand which I designed and manufactured within 48 hours including custom 3d-printed brackets to hold the motor-differential assembly to work on it when it's not mounted to the car. Was useful for cutting chain length, replacing the jacking bar, and having somewhere to safely store the assembly.
Container Mounts
Container mounts which I milled from some square stock. Spent 36 hours in the machine shop over 3 days to get these done because of their odd geometry
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