Sandra Faragalla

Experience

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  Engineers Without Borders USA

  Aug 2020 - May 2024

  Leading a team of students to provide a reliable water source for a community of more than 500 residents in the city of Miramar, near Miches, Dominican Republic, by managing 5 subteams, writing comprehensive reports, and directing meetings. Providing hands-on experience to students through local projects on and off-campus. Managed a team to connect and communicate with an NGO, and developed a sustainability plan to educate the community about the maintenance of a rainwater catchment system in the neighborhood of Miramar, Dominican Republic.

  • Administrative Project Manager

    Jan 2022 - May 2024

  • DR Education Team Lead

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Fundraising Team

    Aug 2020 - May 2021
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  USF College of Engineering

  May 2021 - Jun 2024

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Working with the Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Robotics Technologies (CARRT). • Conducted a NASA Lunar Biomechanics Modeling project to aid in understanding Lunar task safety. Collected and analyzed data from human subjects, and postprocessed data in Vicon Nexus Motion Capture system to simulate a Biomechanical Model Capture system to simulate a Biomechanical Model. • Advanced a NASA Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (VIS) project to aid astronaut safety on space missions. Roles and responsibilities included programming a VIS system on D-Flow (Motek Medical), testing in simulation and live environments, and postprocessing data • Presented research on Basic Lunar Task Variations and Safety Analysis for NASA Lunar Surface Operations at the 2022 NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop and USF 2022 Undergraduate Research Conference Show less

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  NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  NASA OSTEM Intern

  Collected and compared data from three motion capture sensors to determine the best method for in-flight exercise data collection. Wrote a comprehensive Test Plan for the data collection. Collaborated with other teams to analyze markerless video-based motion capture exercise data.