About / Daniel Teal

nanopatterning, nanoenergy, materials science, dynamic systems, thermodynamics, organic chemistry, heat transfer, numerical analysis

Building MEMS robots.

Automating nanowire assembly. Implemented computer vision-based detection of nanowires at ≈ 500 Hz and a custom FPGA-based programmable 4-channel arbitrary function generator for vastly improved electric tweezers control.

Studied neuromorphic computation in random PVP@Ag nanowire networks via computer simulations and physical experiment. Learned international research culture in Tusukuba, Japan.

Created low power voltage rectifiers in the CNF fab. Performed mask design, photolithography, evaporation, graphene application, automated 200 MHz electrical tests, and UHF vibrometry.

Trained students for and maintained laser cutters and 3D printers. Attained proficiency in rapid prototyping equipment. Proposed and ran large student hardware hackathon in collaboration with ME Undergraduate Advisory Board.

Organized the annual RAS introductory student robotics competition, Robotathon, while rewriting and maintaining the club website. Also built assorted small robots and large robotic couch.

Proposed, designed, and ran the first UT engineering Createathon hardware hackathon with ≈ 50 students and multiple corporate sponsors in collaboration with the UT makerspace. Organized the second a year later.

Reviewed plasmonic nanostructures.

Designed and fabricated head impact metrology equipment for future research. Mounted 30 psi baseball air cannon to steel frame and SLS nylon dummy head. Automated measurements and tested high-speed camera.

Acoustically detected unmanned aerial vehicles. Used digital signal processing to estimate range of common Phantom 3 pro quadcopter from analysis of its ultrasonic altitude finder and propeller noise under laboratory conditions.

Lead team to become 2014-2015 world competition finalists. Designed in CAD and fabricated most of unorthodox leafblower-based wooden structure.

Self-taught mechatronics by evolving generations of FDM machines.