Drew Stephens Robotics · WPI Student · U.S. Citizen dwstephens@wpi.edu Résumé LinkedIn

Currently building

Mechanical Wave Propagation Device

WPI Major Qualifying Project · started August 2026 · in progress

I am designing, building, and programming a dynamic Shive wave machine, a mechanical device that lets us test varying material properties in space and time as a wave travels through it. My job is to prototype the device and analyze how accurately it reproduces the geometries the theory calls for.

The Shive wave machine part-built on a workbench: a row of pendulum arms
              carrying circuit boards mounted along a torsion rail, with further arm
              assemblies laid out in the foreground.

More to come soon as the project progresses!

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