I collaborated with four other students to research, design, manufacture, and test a water pump. We opted for a Scotch-Yoke piston pump design, which featured a two-sided, double-acting mechanism.

The AstroTech sub-team on the Cornell Mars Rover (CMR) Project Team oversees the creation of a life-detecting chemical testing lab on the rover for the science portion of the University Rover Challenge. During this challenge, the rover collects samples from different sites and then analyzes these samples in-situ, providing our science team with the data required to decide on the presence of life.