======Independent======

=====Solar Thermoelectrics=====

Before my senior year of high school I was a summer intern at The Cooper Union. I worked on the Mechanical Engineering Project under Professor Dell, and his TAs James Baker and Subashis Paul. My team and I, which included classmate [[start:classes:principlesofdesign:robert_walsh| Robert Walsh]], worked on a solar thermoelectric project. The goal was to find ways to utilize "waste heat" and we developed a system which focused sunlight onto copper sheet which created a significant heat difference between the copper plate and a heat sink. A thermocouple was then placed between the hot and cool bodies, and power was made. I look back on that work proudly, but also laugh at how far I've come from it in such a short time.

===Graphics===

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===Final Power Point===
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===Technical Paper===
Still tracking this down from my groupmates, I have changed computers since then and have lost most of this project.

=====Miscellaneous Models=====

====Chess Set====

Never machined,but plan on making the board sometime soon, and the pieces somewhere down the line.

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{{ :start:classes:principlesofdesign:joseph_viola:game_setup_2.jpg?700x350 | The Gangs All Here }}

{{ :start:classes:principlesofdesign:joseph_viola:high_grounds_and_low_grounds.jpg?700x350 | Dynamic! }}

{{ :start:classes:principlesofdesign:joseph_viola:the_golds.jpg?700x350 | Close Up }}

====Acoustic Guitar====

I was teaching my friend how to use Solidworks and decided that a guitar would be a cool exercise. However, I also decided to go all out and try to dimension this as closely as possible to a certain type of guitar. Different dimensions affect the sounds produced, so I was careful in being accurate. The pegs, on the other hand, I gave up on and just copied what a violin would look like.

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{{ :start:classes:principlesofdesign:joseph_viola:nut_and_pegs.jpg?700x350 | Nut and Pegs }}

====Iris====

An iris of sorts was the one of the first throttle concepts. Throttle featured in the [[http://dap.cooper.edu/doku.php?id=start:classes:principlesofdesign:joseph_viola:FSAE| FSAE]] section

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====Upright Piano Exterior====

I was in a musical, and a character needed to play a piano on stage. So the plan was he'd play a keyboard since lugging an actual piano on stage for a scene or two is unreasonable, but the hangup was that the show was so supposed to be in 1959 so the modern keyboard would be awkward and tacky. So I told the director I'd make a mock upright piano for the stage, and much to her surprise and delight I showed up with a piano in a week. I modeled it in solidworks for fun, and built it out of scrapped plywood and spindles. Stage crew dolled it up later, I was busy being a star.

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