As the lead research assistant of the Engineering Educational Research Lab at UC San Diego, I helped develop, design, advise, and fabricate a number of educational demonstrations for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering courses. This project has much variety and combines classroom knowledge with hands-on skills.

The mechanical design behind every demonstration aims to clearly illustrate the engineering concept at play, while keeping the principles of DFM in mind and reducing cost as much as possible. Some demonstrations are large in size, while others are small but produced in larger quantities (sometimes in the order of hundreds). A wide array of materials are used, including metals, plastics and foam. Consequently, a variety of manufacturing methods are also used, such as 3-D printing, laser cutting, water jetting, machining, as well as the use of other machine shop and hand-held tools.

Some notable creations are listed below:
- Metal truss with indicators of tension/compression in each truss member
- Euler buckling model with different boundary conditions
- Lego truss-building kit with mechanical fuse for tensile/compressive loads
- Moment visualization