About
Harrison is an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering from Las Vegas. He has been working for Dr. Hill's lab since September 2021. He enjoys rock climbing, skiing, sailing, hiking, knife making, soapmaking, and machining. He speaks English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and knows enough Italian to order pasta and find a bathroom. Harrison plans to get a master's and later a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is especially interested in dynamics and has experience with shock and vibration and robotics.
Research
Harrison's main areas of research have involved tensegrity and shock and vibration. He worked to build a movable mass tensegrity robot and helped author papers about its control and locomotion. He has also worked on analyzing the relationship of string tension within tensegrity with a special focus on the construction and modeling of tunable tensegrity structures. He has recently begun work in shock and vibration using Finite Element Analysis to predict response to resonant plate experiments. As part of his research he has gained experience using Python, MatLab, and ABAQUS as well as hands-on experience in manual machining and mechatronics.
