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Roger's Design Portfolio

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A. Underwater Vehicles and Instrumenation

Calculations for the Crush Depth of Simple Cylinders and Plates
Faculty Rep. for the US Naval Academy's AUV Club
Pressure Compensating Alkaline Batteries for Deep Sea Use
Project ORCA, the MIT Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team
Underwater Experiment Canister (UEC)

B. Manufacturing and Test Equipment

Ceramic Samurai
MesoMill
MiniMill
Spindle Concepts for Small Machining Centers
The Axtrustion Non-Contact Linear Motion System (Master's Thesis)
The Flextester
The Modular Kinematic Coupling
The Overbeck L/T Super Precision Grinder

C. MIT Undergraduate Work

2.007 Machine
2.670 Sterling Engine
A 'Mass Produced' Plastic Yo-Yo
Electric Gocart
MIT Solar Vehicle Team
Power Mini-Van Rear Gate Opener
Teaching Mechanical Engineering Design

D. Other

ES360 Introduction to Controls Engineering (for non-engineers)
Finite Element Analysis w/ Ansys
Gas Spring Modeling and Analysis
Yakima Bike Rack Cozy

E. Software

Baltimore Area Aviation Wx Summary
Digital Notebook
LaTeX Packages and Classes
NanoMail Email Client
Online Equation Editor
Online General Aviation Pilot Log
The Digital Athletic Log
Vehicle Maintenance Log

F. High School Projects

Compost Bin Eagle Scout Project
Fire Extinguisher Practical Joke
The Shop'N Cart
The TorqueMaster
Transparency Mover

Ph.D.

Dissertation Defense Slides
Dissertation Full Text

USNA AUV

The USNA's AUV taking shape in the tow tank.

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The Axtrusion, a precise linear motion system built for my Master's thesis.

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A spindle concept for a small milling machine

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The modal analysis for a compact ceramic grinding lathe... The Ceramic Samurai.

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UEC-2B receives last minute instructions before being loaded aboard submarine NR-1

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The prototype flextester.

The Overbeck L/T Super Precision Ginder on the cover of the December 2002 issue of American Machinist. Read the article in American Machinist

The Overbeck L/T Grinder World Debut at IMTS 2002