Andrew Dittmer, P. Eng Email & Phone Number

Woodstock, ON, CA

• Mentored four interns
• Conducted interviews, on-boarding, work assignments
• Established clear objectives, provided resources and support
• Motivated interns by connecting their work to customer needs.
• Conducted midterm and final performance reviews
• Supported expansion and diversification of intern program for benefit of team and department.

• Led technical development of atomizer intended for use in highly controlled environment.
• Selected core technology, key partners, special equipment (high speed camera, thermal camera, laser Doppler vibrometer, Vector Network Analyzer) and software to accelerate transition from laboratory to commercial.
• Regularly met with end customers (health care practitioners) and sales teams to define market need and validate progress.
• Quantified customer needs, defined and prioritized tasks with multifunctional team to address key requirements.
• Used simulations, tolerance stacks and good design practices to generate multiple concepts for testing.
• Performed prior art seaches, and generated records of invention for two patent applications.

London, Canada Area

• Successfully designed and developed two low cost pneumatic atomizer products on schedule.
• Regularly met with sales teams, and end-customers (via hospital visits and conferences) to establish requirements and validate design.
• Performed risk analysis and engineering due diligence (drawings for components and assemblies, tolerance stacks, design verification) and led critical design reviews in compliance with multiple medical device standards.
• Used material guides to ensure molding success and production capability.
• Constantly identified and explored new opportunities, using third parties when expertise was required and leveraging NSERC grants when possible.

London, Canada Area

• Responsible for resolving non-conformance reports, customer complaints, and maintaining engineering and quality management system documents.
• Led cost and yield improvements through several design changes.
• Led rapid development of add on product (filter kit).

London, Canada Area

4th year student.- Winner of Fall 2012 Mechatronics competition, designed semi-autonomous rescue robot for use in hazardous conditions.- 4th year project - Alternative Energy Research for Avalon Rare Metals Inc.- 4th year Space Systems Design project - Designed Gravity Gradient Boom for LEO satellite.- 4th year Medical Devices - Conceptualized solution to.

London, Canada Area

Primarily performacne testing, 3D printing, and fixture design, with some data analysis and traditional prototyping (used machine shop).

Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel

Used Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to measure the wake near the trailing edge of a static (stuffed) white throated sparrow in a wind tunnel at the BLWT of Western University. Supervisors: Dr. John de Bruyn and Dr. Gregory Kopp.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: FSAE Team 2010-2011 SAE Aero design Team 2011-12 WEC Director of Competitions 2011 WEC competitor 2012

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Honors Specialization In Physics

Activities and Societies: Physics and Astronomy Student Association 2007-2010