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Josh Taylor
Packaging Engineering, SEG Group Apple
M.S. Mechanical Engineering , UCLA
June 2014
B.S. Mechanical Engineering UC Berkeley
May 2013

About Me
I am currently a Packaging Engineer at Apple in Silicon Engineering
Group. I completed my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a
concentration in Design and Manufacturing at UCLA in 2014 and my
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2013.

Skills: Creo Parametric (formerly Pro/Engineer), SolidWorks,

SpaceClaim, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max Design, Inventor, ANSYS,
COMSOL
Programming: MATLAB, Python, Java, LabVIEW

Design Projects
Air Guitar

4-5

Mechanical Board
Eraser

6-7

Sine Wave Generator

7-8

DFMA Checklist

9-10

Campanile Project

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Chassis Project

13-14

Slide Projector
Animation

15-16

Lockheed P-38
Lightning

17-18

Air Guitar Gloves

The Goal: To build a pair of gloves that allows the
wearer to play guitar music using hand motions.
Skills Used:
SolidWorks
LabVIEW
Machining

Winner of
Departments
Mechanical Engineer
for best Senior Design
Project

Design features a push-button on each

finger to represent 4 strings (E, A, D, G);
two buttons pressed represent a chord

String potentiometer fabricated to provide

accurate distance measurements i.e. location
on the fretboard
ME102B Mechatronics/ME135 Design of Microprocessor-Based Mechanical Systems
Spring 2012 with Professor Kazerooni/Professor Anwar

Air Guitar Gloves cont.

The Amp houses the SB-RIO used for all data acquisition
and allowed for easier organization of all the wires

LabVIEW graphical user interface

displaying string and fret
locations as well as the key and
distortion level

The team (from left): Aaron Krive, Leonard

Carrier, Darshan Kasar, Chris Anderson, Me,
Eric Bourgain-Chang

Mechanical Board Eraser

The Goal: To design and prototype a faster, cleaner
board eraser for the university's black boards using
criteria from Berkeleys professors and
administrators
Criteria:
Leave no chalk marks
Clean the board in under 5 seconds
Maintain performance throughout the year
Be unobtrusive
Metric

Criteria

Weight

<15 kg

Cost

<$80

Lifespan

3-5 years

Speed

1-2 meters per second

Number of Parts

15

Noise Output

Unobtrusive sound

Steps to Operate

Users Age

>12 years old

Skills Used:
SolidWorks
Machining

Final prototype of our design. The lime green

microfiber cloth is removable so that it can be
washed and reused.
ME 110 -New Product Development
Spring 2012, Professor Yousseffi

Mechanical Board Eraser (cont.)

Final 3D Model of our design produced

and rendered in SolidWorks.
3D model close-up of gearing mechanism which allows user
to push into the board while pushing the eraser to allow the
user to exert force throughout the whole width of the board.

Goals Accomplished:
Leave no chalk marks
Clean the board in under 5 seconds
Maintain performance throughout the year
Be unobtrusive
Bonus: was made under $200 budget

Gearing mechanism as-built.

Sine Wave Generation

Mechanism
The Goal: To design a mechanism that
draws sine waves with variable
frequencies and amplitudes
Skills Used:
SolidWorks
Machining

A sample sine-wave produced by the mechanism.

Built prototype of mechanical sine wave generator.

ME 130 Design of Planar Machinery

Spring 2012, Professor Yousseffi

Sine Wave Generation Mechanism

(cont.)

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2.
3.
4.
1. Variable amplitude slots for the scotch-yoke mechanism
2. Friction roller with rubber bands to pull the paper
through
3. Paper fed in from this side
4. Motor controlled by PWM circuit to allow for a changing
roller speed producing a changing sine wave frequency

Final design utilizing a scotch- yoke mechanism for the

vertical motion and a friction roller to produce a constant
horizontal motion. The displacement of the pen is now a
perfect sine wave

Arduino

PWM circuit used to control the roller motor. User

could adjust roller speed through the potentiometer
(on left).

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DFMA Checklist
The Goal: To create a user-friendly GUI to help the pilot/ manufacturing
engineers perform design for manufacturing and assembly analysis on
incoming projects in alpha and beta stage of development
Skills Used:
Python (with wxPython graphics package)

The original checklist which

overwhelms the user with
information)

New front panel of checklist,

organized by DFMA category
LAM Research, Pilot Operations
Summer 2012, Frank Alvarez

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DFMA Checklist (cont.)

Each category has several DFMA questions that allow

the engineer to report issues relating to the question

Reference information relating

to the question can be found by
clicking on the question

A summary of the issues reported can be found

here along with the severity.
A score can be given to each issue that was found
from 10 (non-issue) 1(major issue)

If any major category scores below an 80%,

then manufacturing sends the assembly back
to the design engineers for a reevaluation and
improvements

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Campanile Project (Berkeley Clock Tower)

The Goal: To design a beam having a the general relative dimensions of the
Berkeley Clock Tower (Campanile) that can survive a cyclic (10x) load of 20 N
with no more than 0.5 mm plastic deformation and achieve survival of this
load with as little material as possible (design for a high spring constant to
mass ratio).
Skills Used:
SolidWorks
LabVIEW

a) Front view b) Side view c) Top view

3D prototype. Design features I-Beam
cross-section which is very efficient at
carrying bending loads along
midsection.

Voted as one of the top 5

designs in the class because of
its smart use of material
ME 102A Introduction to Measurements Systems for Mechatronics
Fall 2012, Professor Pisano

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Chassis Design Project

The Goal: To design a car chassis that has the highest
bending stiffness and twisting stiffness per mass.
Skills Used:
SolidWorks
LabVIEW

3-D model of car chassis designed in

SolidWorks

Side view of 3-D printed prototype

ME 102A Introduction to Measurements Systems for Mechatronics
Fall 2012, Professor Pisano

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Chassis Design Project (cont.)

Linear Encoder
Loading cycle at 10N applied to the chassis

Force Sensor

Testing setup used for both campanile and

chassis testing. The wires lead to the
NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS BNC-2120
(connected to the NI PXI-6251 card in the
LabVIEW Chassis).
Force vs. Displacement plot for the chassis
bending. The max bending displacement was 3
mm

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Slide Projector Animation

The Goal: To reverse engineer a complex mechanical
device, creating 3D models of the parts and producing
an animation showing its assembly and functioning.
Skills Used:
Creo Parametric
3D Studio Max Design

Left: Kodak 4400 Slide projector; Right: Rendered 3D

model of slide projector in 3D Studio Max Design

Scene from the animation showing a

close-up of the machine

E 128Advanced Engineering Graphics

Fall 2012, Professor Lieu

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Close-up of the lens assembly

Close-up of slide-changer mechanism

Scene from the 3D animation showing the slide

projector functioning

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning

The Goal: To model, texture and animate the Lockheed P-38
Lightning fighter plane in 3D Studio Max.
Skills Used:
3D Studio Max Design

Top view of the P-38.

Close-up view of the P-38.

E128 Advanced Engineering Design Graphics

Fall 2012, Professor Lieu

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning (cont.)

Close-up view from the back and isometric view

Screenshot from the animation showing planes in a battle

formation