Rebecca McCabe

I am leading a team of four MEng and undergrad students to design, build, and test two 1:50 scale wave energy converters. I am...

In my third year participating in the MIT Energy Hackathon, I worked with a team to create a constrained optimization controller to...

I co-founded GAIA, a national competition that empowers college teams to conceive, design, prototype, and execute high-impact solutions...

I developed the framework and presented it at the University Marine Energy Research Conference (UMERC 2022). I am now further refining...

In a class project turned conference paper, I achieved a seven-fold reduction in the LCOE (levelized cost of energy) of a two-body point...

My MIT bachelor's thesis is entitled "Electromagnetic and Systems Design of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for an Electric...

In 2021, I interned at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Marine Energy group, where I contributed to the mechanical and...

In 2020 and 2021, I led the electrical, mechanical, and systems-level design and implementation of a 100 kW dynamometer (dyno) to enable...

I used linear (LQR) and nonlinear (feedback linearization) techniques to control power in a nonlinear motor for an electric vehicle. I...

For my final project in 6.640, I used the magneto-quasi-static (MQS) Maxwell equations to develop a boundary value problem of the...

For my senior capstone class 2.013, I simulated the nonlinear hydrodynamics of a long-range AUV with a hybrid propeller-glider...

At the MIT Energy Hackathon, in just 36 hours I created a working Matlab nonlinear constrained optimization solver to compute optimal...

As Systems Architect for the 2021 FSAE racecar, I owned high-level vehicle design, and I led a subteam of 10 engineers to optimize and...

I modeled high voltage system leakage, developing a new procedure to optimize isolation resistance and Y-capacitance requirements for...

I used direct transcription trajectory optimization on a nonlinear state-space vehicle model in matlab to design a torque vectoring...

As simulation lead for the 2020 FSAE car, I pioneered several new vehicle dynamics simulations and used these sims to select design...

I performed dynamic testing on a 100 kW motor to analyze the effect of field weakening control on efficiency, torque-speed curve, and...

My team created a one-legged vertical hopping robot. The project analyzed the effect of spring stiffness on jumping efficiency (a measure...

At JPL, I contributed to V&V (validation and verification) data analysis of sensors and actuators on the Sample Caching System on the...

As a birthday present for a friend, I prototyped a simple 434 MHz radio-communication circuit to wirelessly activate a buzzer. There are...