Goldilocks is a Department of Defense–sponsored project developed through the University of Central Florida’s Entrepreneurship for Defense course, a DoD initiative run in partnership with the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN). Conducted in collaboration with U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and a multidisciplinary student engineering team, the project focused on freshwater conservation in the Panama Canal.
This repository serves as the central hub for my contributions to the Goldilocks project.
A lightweight C# Unity simulation of the Panama Canal’s lock and lake system. Designed for conceptual understanding rather than physical-scale accuracy, supporting stakeholder communication.
Features
- Visualizes ship movement, water flow, and lock elevation changes.
- Illustrates Gatun Lake’s role as a freshwater reservoir.
- Demonstrates lock operations with simplified mechanics for clarity.
A C# Unity simulation that visualizes a bladder-inspired water retention concept.
This tool was built in response to a request from a Department of Defense sponsor, who asked the team to explore the feasibility of an inflatable bladder mechanism for reducing freshwater loss in canal operations.
Features
- Models bladder expansion and contraction in canal lock.
- Demonstrates power consumption and time delays under different operation scenarios.
A Python-based tool for modeling freshwater efficiency in Panama Canal lock operations.
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Features
- Estimates water usage per transit for Panamax and Neopanamax locks.
- Calculates displacement, water loss, and per-cycle costs using NumPy.
- Implements a greedy scheduling algorithm to batch smaller ships into shared lock cycles.
- Produces visualizations of water loss, savings, and efficiency tradeoffs with Jupyter + Matplotlib.