Internship

rebecca-mc

Aug 31, 20211 min read

Wave Energy Powered Desalination

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

rebecca-mc

Sep 13, 20201 min read

Tesla Powertrain Modeling: Performance and HV Shock Safety

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

rebecca-mc

Sep 14, 20191 min read

JPL Internship - Mars 2020 Robotic Arm

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

rebecca-mc

Aug 12, 20181 min read

Forced Air PCB Cooling System

As an intern at RealTime Robotics, I selected and packaged fans to cool a motion planning FPGA board dissipating 22 W. Reduced junction...

rebecca-mc

Aug 11, 20181 min read

ROS Motion Planning Test Cases

At Realtime Robotics, I created URDF files and coordinate transforms for a set of obstacles, resulting in lifelike robotic arm scenarios...