KYAN SADEGHILARI
Kyan's Senior Design Portfolio
MEET THE TEAM
The design team that I am part of consists of a group of four engineers, including myself, and one faculty adviser part of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo. Each of us come from various backgrounds, bringing diverse ideas. Our senior design class tasked us with developing a seamless air to water drone that can effectively transition between the two mediums. We are still continuing our goal to fabricate this drone, and through our innovative capabilities our progress thus far is in the making.
DR. JAVID BAYANDOR
Faculty Adviser
Dr. Bayandor is our current faculty sponsor for our senior design project. We meet with him bi-weekly to update him on our progress and we take his feedback to improve and iterate our designs. In addition, he refers us to multiple sources to aid us in our fabrication of the drone.
TEAM MEMBER'SÂ ROLE
Through our initial meeting of our confirmed group, we all agreed to assign roles based on each of our strengths in order to form a team structure. Although, we are not required to fulfill each role solely, each of us ended up affiliating ourselves with a general job that we gravitated towards naturally. Each of us all participate in the overall design and fabrication of the drone, however, with the team break up work based on our individual strengths increased our productivity significantly.
Kevin Carpenter being an aerospace engineering major has the most familiarity with drones and their operations. His past projects and current research with Dr. Bayandor is what allowed us to choose him to be the forefront of our project. It is important to note that even though he is the leader, we all are have equal say and input in the design of our project.
Kevin Marquez is greatly adept to CAD modelling and FEA analysis, his artistic abilities and ingenuity is what we had every member agree that his main position is the modelling of the drone. From his past projects he was the main person spear heading the CAD modelling and his background in photography and art speak volumes for his ability with CAD.
Johan Marcos passion for physics and having the innate ability to digest many complex systems, is why as a group we encouraged him to have the role as the technical lead. The ability to be able to understand the dynamics of a system, especially one as complicated as a drone which has many different systems interacting with one another is the main reason for his technical lead role.
MY ROLE
I saw myself gravitating towards the Project Coordinator because of my natural organizational and time management skills. The group agreed as a consensus because in prior projects I was always the most organized and the best management skills to keep the group on track and meet deadlines. I found this position to a strong fit for me because I have a strong desire to keep everything organized and neat. In addition, I have a habit of consistently making sure that each group member performs their task to their fullest capability and ensuring that it is performed punctually. I expect this role to carry though to MAE 494 since it will require these qualities and drive the team forward. As am I very logical and technical decision maker, I am well suited to aid everyone on the team my experience and knowledge since I know the basics of CAD and have studied many complex, interchanging engineering systems. One area of work I believe I could improve is understanding the air and water propulsions systems better, since my project requires to the drone to navigate through both environments. I lack the depth of knowledge in these areas due to my inexperience in these technical requirements.
