Hi everyone! My name is Ric Chang and I’m a junior Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering student at Jones with a double minor in Engineering Design and Philosophy. I’m the glorious result of birth tourism (anchor baby) meaning I was born in the US and immediately airlifted back to Taiwan I spent my childhood coming to Rice for college.
When I’m not swimming through the unending sea of CHBE homework, I’m involved in the Rice Taiwanese Association. We run various events like the Mid-Autumn Festival BBQ and the annual Rice Night Market to share and celebrate Taiwanese culture.
More than 400 people showed up to the 2023 Rice Night Market!
Over the Summer, my iSEED team and I iterated upon a portable test tube incubator designed for water sampling in Mexico. The experience of fighting through the initial blueprints, technical bottlenecks, and generating an in-depth trouble-shooting manual really made me proud of the project. It was especially memorable because we went from shop-to-shop sourcing all the materials which gave us a chance to interact with the shop owners and made the project more personable to both us and them.
The interior of the incubator. All materials that constituted the incubator were sourced locally.
The finalized design our team came up with after iterating upon previous prototypes.
In the future, I hope to build a portable solar phone charger. Although this class will not cover the complicated photovoltaic cell wiring necessary for that type of project, learning how to CAD and CNC machine is an essential process of manufacturing.
