<aside> 👋 Hey I’m Julia! I’m finishing up my 1st year of engineering @UWaterloo and working as an R&D tech at AirBoss. 🧪🔬

8 months ago I got into mobility tech hardware everywhere from 100-1000 kph, trying to understand the complex systems of why congestion exists and now I’m building ideas to reduce travel times globally. 🌍

On this project, I focused on Canada’s road transit systems traffic to improve time & resource efficiency. ⏳

Last year, I started out learning about **all things nano: and applied to nano behaviours to generate energy from plants, pick out impurities in drinking water, and build biosensors for medical devices. I’m interested in high-speed travel, nano biosensors, and sustainable energy production.

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Making Canadian Transportation More Efficient with Hyperloops (1 min)

<aside> 1️⃣ Problems I’m working on

• North American transportation time & resource efficiency
• Expanding use & growth of hyperloop tech
• Expensive & unsustainable Maglev motors </aside>

<aside> 2️⃣ Gaps preventing efficient Maglev & hyperloops

• Low technological maturity
• Lack of real-world operational data
• Lack of standardized safety & regulatory frameworks </aside>

<aside> 3️⃣ My work is filling the tech gap

• Building cheaper & more sustainable Maglev motors
• Bridging the hyperloop industry into matured industries </aside>

<aside> 4️⃣ The work in action

• See the timeline of building
• Aero, Maglev, Hyperloop & HSR stuff: Project Hub -all project iterations </aside>

📣 My ask: Connecting to people in hyperloop, high-speed rail or plane companies & materials I want to work in this industry in January 2025.

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Starting from 0 to building levitating motors in my dorm

8 months ago, I was super into nanomaterials and the only thing I knew about motors was that they made stuff move. I had no idea how to build AC or DC circuits besides twisting two wires together and sticking them to a battery, and my very limited 1-week intro to electromagnetics from 3 years ago in high school was completely gone.

dorm picture of circuit working

5 seconds before a tragedy.

I got enough levitation to fit a credit card under my first working motor. Then I knocked it over at it shorted burning everything that wasn’t insulated, and took a month to figure out how I did it

Now I’ve got a working model

See the timeline from start to now

demo picture

Road traffic is hurting economies, the planet, and drivers because it can’t keep up

• Economies: In Canada, over 158 billion dollars is lost from traffic *verify numbers on productivity & gasoline → make comparison in us & Europe (try eu countries priority) & maybe china if time
• Planet: Globally transportation sector emits 1/3 of globo emissions, in Canada is * verify if is 28%
• Drivers & passengers: * add crash fatality numbers

Current transportation modes can’t keep up w society’s rapid changes

Society is changing so quickly our transportation systems can’t keep up, this is especially true in Canada.

With the increase in gas prices (x% in 2024) and inflation in general, people are shifting away from personal vehicles due to unaffordability. Car registrations grew 21% in Canada from 1985-1997 but road capacity has only increased 7%. So, a lot more people were buying cars with little roads expansion to drive on. More recently car sales shot down by 0.3% from 2021-2022 (smallest increase in over 20 years!) so continuing into 2023, more people will need to use public transportation, but there haven’t been any recent expansions or new infrastructure other than the regular road widening and recently a GO train expansion announcement.