Brian Lee, Eit Email & Phone Number

Providing engineering support for various railcar/rail vehicle projects.* Reviewing engineering drawings, designs, and documentation for various subsystems as a mechanical & systems engineer.* Assisting with NYCT testing efforts for new R211 metro cars across various railcar subsystems, including field observations and engineering test report reviews.*.

New York, New York, United States

Providing engineering support for New York area railcar projects.* Assisting with NYCT testing efforts for new R211 metro cars across various railcar subsystems.* Working closely with DPMs from Kawasaki, engineering leads from NYCT/Hatch/Jacobs, and testing staff as a test coordinator and field test witness.* Reviewing engineering drawings/designs and.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Validated chassis design for updated urban cargo tricycle model and furthered understanding of previous tricycle models via finite element analyses (FEA) & data from initial prototypes.
• Designed connection of tricycle uprights to brake calipers.
• Assisted in manufacturing updated tricycle model.

Greater New York City Area

• Self-taught ANSYS Fluent software to verify thermal safety of Dagmy’s existing battery packs through CFD thermal analyses to allow use of packs in solar storage systems.
• Researched existing solar storage systems to help colleagues design other components of custom solar storage system.

Greater New York City Area

• Researched and determined the feasibility of reverting detrimental modifications to railcar braking/propulsion systems, utilizing modernized gap-filling technology, removing or easing curved sections on subway lines.
• Gained knowledge about current block signal system design and futuristic CBTC system design.
• Furthered peers’ understandings of physical infrastructure used in New York’s subway.

Greater New York City Area

• Taught high school students elementary college-level mechanics of materials knowledge and presentation/communication skills.
• Directed students in acquiring torsional rigidity data for the Cooper Motorsports team’s 2016 car frame and in redesigning a frame torsion test rig.

Seoul, South Korea

• Peer tutored juniors from Seoul Foreign School to prepare them for rigorous high school math and physics classes.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Cooper Union FSAE Motorsports, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Poco a Poco (orchestra), Cycling.