2.007 (Design and Manufacturing) is MIT's flagship mechanical engineering course focused on hands-on product design and prototyping, culminating in a head-to-head robotics competition where students design and build robots to complete a set of themed challenges. 

The 2025 challenge was based on the musical Wicked and featured themed scoring elements scattered across a multi-level field including red ruby heels, poppies, a giant head, levers and other symbolic artifacts.

1st place Champion

• Secured first place out of 140 MIT competitors in the head-to-head robotics tournament by engineering two robots that executed complex game-board challenges: toggling levers, lifting objects such as the red ruby heels onto elevated scoring zones, pushing a massive head, and navigating a steep slope.

International Design Award

• Awarded the top honor for outstanding mechanical design, creativity, integration, and technical excellence in the same head-to-head tournament.

• Awarded the top honor for outstanding mechanical design, creativity, integration, and technical excellence in the same head-to-head tournament. Awarded monetary prize and lunch with MIT mechanical engineering faculty.

Exercise Assistant Mechanism 

Designed and developed a novel mechanical support system to prevent falls among elderly individuals during exercise, balancing freedom of motion with real-time fall detection and variable assistance at MIT’s d’Arbeloff Lab. Simulated and tested designs using SolidWorks, ultimately manufacturing and assembling a double pantograph linkage system featuring spring actuation and a custom vest interface. Co-authored Spring Loaded Double Pantograph: A Robotic Mechanism for Safe Balance Training, presented at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN); Kazue Tanie Award Top Finalist