Simple demostration of airfoils, lift and angle of attack using strings, straws, a piece of paper, two rulers and a hair dryer. Course: Fluid Mechanics II. 

Demostration of stress concentrations and stress distribution across force application points by means of photoelasticity. 

Designed and built an accessible wind tunnel for aerodynamics demostrations: lift, drag, flow separation and vorticity. Drag and lift loadcell setup enabled students to graph force vs. angle of attack. Current setup is being improved by undergrad students. Course: Fluid Mechanics II. 

Designed and built an accessible guided fall setup for aerodynamics demostrations: drag coefficient and terminal speed determination. Used a wood frame and polystyrene known figures and an open source software (Tracker, Open Physics). Programmed a custom Excel spreadsheet using Macros to perform a curve fit, and find the coefficient. Course: Fluid Mechanics II. 

Buit a Schlieren setup using a digital camera, a D113 mm FL450 mm telescope mirror, a modified led and a sharp edge. Co-designed and prototyped de Laval nozzles to better capture shockwaves in compressed air. Course: Fluid Mechanics II.  

Co-designed and prototyped a 4-cycle combustion engine out of acrylic, threaded rod and 3D printer timing belts to showcase its working principle. Currently being used for introductory Mechanical Engineering courses and workshops. 

Buit a Schlieren setup to visualize laminar flow, turbulent flow and natural convection.  

Designed 4-bar linkages in Autodesk Inventor, using parametrization, a personalized iLogic user interface, and Dynamic Simulation. Ideated as a teaching tool to better understand mechanism dynamics. 

Prototyped and design a troubleshooting guide, to teach students about frequent FDM failures and their potential solutions. 

Co-designed and built a 3D puzzle to teach about CubeSats, the QUETZAL-1 mission and to inspire future Guatemalan engineers.