Tynan Purdy

Guide multidisciplinary students to use the resources in the lab in their interactive projects. Facilitate interactive product skills workshops for undergraduate and graduate students. Lead open-lab lecture events on tech and design to enrich the campus design community.

University Innovation Fellows is a global program that empowers student leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.

$12 / hour, 10 hours / week Teach students and faculty design thinking to implement design in their professions. Assist teaching service design in community co-design course. Co-designed community brand for the Historic Hunter Hills neighborhood.

$25 / hour, full time Collaborated with full stack software engineers to create working software prototypes Used Figma and other design tools to create and present high-fidelity designs Conducted user research and usability testing to inform design decisions

Develop applications for new kirigami prototyping technique Rapid prototype with laser cut materials Document experimentation in peer reviewed paper

$15 / hour, 10 hours / week To assist the lab in transitioning to a larger operating team structure, I designed the lab's IT infrastructure process, encompassing team communication, task management, and document storage. I conducted user research on the faculty members and student employees, analyzed options for available tools against the values expressed in user research and produced a proposal for a complete system.

I worked under Dr. Ruiz in the Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research Laboratory of GTRI on a sensor fusion security system. I participated mainly in the design and prototyping of pressure-sensitive floor tiles based on piezoelectric resistance. Working with a group of undergraduate students and other high school interns, we were able to develop the tiles from a basic, single tile prototype to a full-size, functioning grid.

I worked as a student intern at the GTRI Aerospace Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory under Dr. Ai-Ping Hu. My project was a continuation of work done by Dr. Hu's students on a microcontroller-based device that detected the ripeness of blueberries based on near-infrared spectroscopy. I was tasked with advancing the device and its technology from a proof of concept to a completed prototype. By the end of the internship, I had improved the performance of the custom sensor and significantly miniaturized the device.

I was a key team member and leader of Fernbank LINKS Robotics, one of the best high school robotics programs in Georgia. My experiences on the team range from photographing events, managing social media, producing video, managing team communications, to team leadership. The team competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition as team 4468. I have traveled with the team to the state and world championship for the two years I have been on the team. Team 4468 is renowned in Georgia and is considered among the best teams in the state.