Samarth Rastogi

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Every project here was built, tested, or validated — not just modeled. Three are worth your first ten minutes.

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Exploded CAD render of the conductive-gap membrane distillation module: acrylic housings, gaskets, and the finned heat-transfer plate.EngineeringThermOceanA desalination platform driven primarily by the ocean's temperature gradient, with a solar-thermal boost in the full-scale design. Treating water cost as an energy problem cut it 51%.Team Lead20 researchers2025–26Photograph of the physical IPMSM rotor sectioned across its axis, resting on a workbench in front of the machine's sectioned stator and its finned black housing. The cut face shows the near-hexagonal rotor lamination stack with the buried permanent-magnet pockets and their retaining bridges visible as dark slots around the perimeter.Course projectSimulation of Electrical MachinesReverse-engineered an interior permanent-magnet synchronous machine end to end in FEMM, then designed a polyphase induction motor that reached its 9.55 Nm torque target within rounding.Individual projectKTH, Spring 2025Course projectMicrosystem Packaging Thermal SimulationsFEA of solder microbumps under thermal cycling, a physics-based review of InFO advanced packaging, and chip-level cooling analysis from immersion boiling to heat pipes.Individual projectPurdue, 2025–26
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2026
Research poster titled Utilizing Ocean Thermoclines for Water Desalination, presented at NCUR 2026: sections on the thermocline-driven membrane distillation concept, system design, test results, and scaling economics.Course projectNCUR 2026Presented ThermOcean's thermocline-driven desalination research — "Utilizing Ocean Thermoclines for Water Desalination" — at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Richmond, VA.Co-author & presenterRichmond, VA · April 2026
2025
A white Blender render of a ring whose entire band is a fine open lattice of interconnected struts and voids, wrapping fully around the circumference.Course projectInconel Jewelry, Designed for SLMA design study—not a fabricated build—for Inconel 718 jewelry intended for Selective Laser Melting, using lattices and internal channels enabled by the process.Team Lead3 peopleKTH, Spring 2025
2024
A finished machinist's hammer turned from 6061 aluminium: a hex-bodied head with a cross-peen on one end and a flat face on the other, threaded onto a tapered handle with a diamond-knurled grip. The head is engraved with the Purdue University wordmark.EngineeringMachine Shop400+ students a semester walk in with a drawing and walk out with a part — if the design survives the machine. I'm the person between the two.Student employee & mentorLathe · mill · bandsaw · laser · brake · weld benchPurdue, 3 semestersA small green printed circuit board, hand-soldered with surface-mount resistors, an 8-pin op-amp, a photocell, and a through-hole LED, powered by a 9-volt battery through red and black leads. The silkscreen reads 'MILESTONES Introduction to Electronics'.Course projectMilestones — Introduction to ElectronicsTwo circuits taken from breadboard to hand-soldered PCB — schematic capture, EAGLE layout, and surface-mount assembly, end to end.Individual projectPurdue, Spring 2024
2023
A quadcopter with a purple 3D-printed frame and yellow three-blade propellers held up in one hand on a competition floor, motors and wiring visible along the arms, with people and a taped course line on the concrete below.Competition3D-Printed DroneA 3D-printed drone frame designed under a $150 budget — FEA-lightened, battery sized from motor specs, 3rd of 10 in the ASME competition.Team memberFall 2023A SolidWorks render of the deployable workstation: a wood-grain rectangular work surface hinged to a black Unistrut channel and hook-sheet mount with a blue plastic latch at the top, floating on a pale blue gradient background.Course projectModular Workstation for Frontline EngineersA folding work surface for the factory floor — 10 kg capacity at 2 kg unit weight, deployed one-handed in under four seconds.Design team member4 peoplePurdue, Fall 2023