TEAM V-LOBSTER RAPTOR

Jesse Currie, Project Management Lead, is a third-year design student at the University of Prince Edward Island’s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering. He graduated from Bluefield High School in North Wiltshire, PEI, in 2015. Currently, he plans on specializing in bio-design engineering as his engineering focus area. His industry interests include sustainable energy, systems engineering, control theory, and compliant mechanisms. Previous projects include collaborations with Parks Canada Agency and local shellfish producer Atlantic Aqua Farms. The focus of these previous projects varied from designing a sustainable boardwalk to creating a reusable device for attaching buoys to marine suspension lines. For the past three summers, he continued to work as a student for Parks Canada, where he assisted in enforcing park regulations and collecting data for park statisticians.

As project management lead, his contributions to the project included ideating and evaluating designs, CAD modeling, fluid dynamics analysis, creating safe work operating procedures, and tracking team progress

Austin Murnaghan, Analysis Lead, is a third-year bioresources student at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE) program at the University of Prince Edward Island. He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and graduated from Charlottetown Rural High School in 2016. He has worked as an analyst at Employment and Social Development Canada and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Prince Edward Island. He has also been a member of a design team tasked with the construction of a floating dock in collaboration with Parks Canada and an award-winning team tasked with the creation of a pineapple fiber extraction device in collaboration with the University of Trinidad and Tobago. During these projects, he was a key contributor to analysis-related tasks among others.

As analysis lead, he completed test reports, test analyses, documentation, and heat exchange analyses. A key contribution was the Matlab and Simulink simulation that predicts the overall temperature change in the full-scale design and prototype vs. time.

Email: acmurnaghan@upei.ca

Email: jecurrie@upei.ca

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Daniel Wartman, Fabrication Lead, is a third-year mechatronics student at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island (FSDE). He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, graduated from Bluefield High School and is currently working as a Student Mechanical Design Engineer for Eastern Fabricators. He has led a team in the design of a veggie flat production press machine, prototyped a virtual reality tour of province house, and produced a Fanuc-powered robot arm assembly station. Extracurricularly he has been a part of many engineering projects. With Atlantic Industries Ltd., Wartman supervised the implementation of a Super-Cor Tunnel structure for the Linwood Rd in the major Cornwall bypass Trans Canada Highway re-route project on a first-hand technical level. Currently while working with Eastern Fabricators, he had a large hand in the design of a new chemical cleaning room for Standard Aero as well as the clean in place and evisceration systems of an East Coast Seafood lobster processing plant. This coming May, he has been selected as a representative of the university to be in an international energy challenge in the Faroe Islands alongside students from four other universities to provide solutions to their microgrids sustainability needs.

As fabrication lead, he drafted the drawings for the prototype and the heat exchanger component of the full-scale solution

Email: dwartman@upei.ca