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.* Working closely with DPMs from Kawasaki, engineering leads/managers from clients, project managers from consultants, and testing staff as a test coordinator and field test witness.

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 documents for various subsystems as a mechanical engineer.* Previously researched cutting edge technology being utilized to achieve energy savings and mitigate spread of pathogens in passenger transit environments, and presented findings to clients.

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, reopening shuttered sections at stations with highly limited access points, simplifying subway routes, etc. to improve New York subway service.• 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.