This internship centered on leading the full development cycle of a new KIOSK prototype, spanning project management, industrial design, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. the KIOSK was a UV-C sanitization device for phone and personal electroinics.

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On the project management side, the work involved building a work breakdown structure, maintaining a Gantt chart to track progress, and managing risk through a RAID log. The industrial design process started with market research — running surveys and gathering data on user pain points using the existing product line as demo units. From there, design specifications and UI/UX requirements were defined, and 13+ unique concepts were generated through hand sketches and KeyShot 7 renderings. A physical mock-up was built using 3D printing and wire-cut foam to prototype and test the motion system. On the electrical side, the full electrical architecture of the prototype was designed, including a custom IR sensor made from a diode and phototransistor to detect obstructions across a 275mm actuator path — protecting fingers and phones from being caught. A short circuit breaking test was also developed and validated for a DC motor. The mechanical engineering scope covered actuation design and power transfer for the motion system, plastics design for injection-molded parts, a full BOM for both electrical and mechanical components, and SolidWorks FEA stress analysis of linkages and shafts, ensuring a minimum safety factor of 2x throughout.