" Be the change you want to see in the world " - Gandhi
Academic Background
Incoming freshman at Michigan Tech University (MTU) pursuing a B.S. in Bioengineering program at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) studying with Dr. John Robinson. Completed Master's of Environmental Studies (MES) at Queen's University, Kingston, and an undergraduate from Carleton University, Ottawa also in Environmental Studies with a minor in Political Science. Research interests are in applied sustainability, appropriate technology, barriers to sustainable development, power of Information and Communication Technologies (internet, access to knowledge etc), open source/ open access and innovation through collaboration, technology, environment and society, as well as the theory of common good and morality. Master's thesis topic was on Open Source Appropriate Technology under the supervision of Dr. Joshua Pearce.
Also worked with Let's Talk Science, Queen's University chapter as one of the coordinators for community High School engagement in things science related, as well as Engineering for Change (E4C) on drafting appropriate technology evaluation platform for a workshop conference held in New York 2012.
I want to be a member of Professor Joshua Pearce's Michigan Tech's Open Sustainability Technology [MOST] Research Group this August 2020. My research interest include are 3D printing, in particular in creating a commercial scale 3D printer with recycling plastic, Solar PV Conversion Efficiency, thin film growth techniques using PECVD, PVD ( e-beam evaporation and sputter deposition systems), semiconductor/micro-fabrication processing, clean room techniques.
Research
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Research Interests:
- Solar PV Conversion Efficiency,
- Plasmonics & Metamaterials in Photovoltaics,
- Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCO (ITO, ZnO, AZO))growth techniques & characterization
- PV Systems Design and Optimization
- 3D Printing, Open Source Hardware and Appropriate Technology
- Snow effect on PV systems project, http://www.mtukrc.org/weather.htm
- 3D Printing of Solar Cell
- Renewable Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency
- System engineering and integration