Engineering Experience

Gretchen attend Olin College of Engineering for four years graduating in 2020 with a BS in Engineering with a concentration in Robotics. During her time at Olin she completed many projects both individually and in teams. Gretchen's favorite projects were those that focused on human centered design. On her teams Gretchen filled various roles, primarily as the project manager.

Human Centered Design Projects

Shifting Rhythms
A long-term project working with youth and youth organizations in Mississippi.

The Harness Project
Working with the service animal community to design an awareness campaign.

Electronic Calendar
Worked with an older community member to identify and solve an everyday problem in their life.

Microwave Meal Media
Using social media to reimagine the users relationship with food waste.

Robotics

I am listed as co-author on two papers written in the HEATLab at Harvey Mudd. The main paper I co-authored is linked in "Fluency in Human Robot Collaboration." We presented our research at the AI-HRI Symposium in 2019. This year the lab continued our fluency work and has submitted another paper, listing me as a co-author.

Fluency in Human Robot Collaboration
Using AI to optimize fluency of human robot collaboration.

Robotic Squid
Building an underwater robot to mimic the motions of a squid.

bass drum in foreground, black and red robotic drummer behind it

Offbeat by GEECS
Building a robotic drummer able to listen for a beat and play along with it.

red data points picked up by robot forming maze shape

Maze Scanner
Using ICP and Hector SLAM mapping with Neato robots to create a map of a maze.