Blake Feltman Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Roadside Safety Hardware Testing – directs a crash safety research facility that evaluates highway safety devices’ ability to arrest passenger vehicles at highway speeds
• Organizes, plans, and executes 24 automotive crash tests a year based on federal specifications o Coordinates 10 employees to conduct system testing
• Installs, programs, and operates test instrumentation – including data acquisition systems and high speed imaging
• Conducts data analysis with MATLAB, Excel, and video editing softwareEnergy Absorbing Highway Safety Devices – develop new roadside crash attenuators such as guardrail end terminals and crash cushions that pass federal.
• Conducts static tensile testing of prototype hardware to anchor FEA modeling of new designs
• Generates SolidWorks drawings and assemblies for fabrication and test layouts

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Recreational Sports Safety Equipment Development – design, construct, and test new and existing sports safety equipment such as football helmets and hockey boards
• Lead test engineer responsible for developing, overseeing, and conducting new performance test plans on sports safety equipment
• Presented test plans to NFL scientific advisors – methods were implemented as a supplementary evaluation technique for new and existing football helmets
• Contributed to the invention of 10 US patents – football and hockey impact arrest systems
• Proficient in additive manufacturing methods for rapid prototyping of new designsProject Management
• Organized weekly meetings for a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, technicians, neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiologists, sports coaches, athletic trainers, and equipment manufacturers

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Focused on concussion risk assessment and prevention in pee wee, junior, high school, collegiate and professional football programs
• Supervised a team of undergraduates to conduct helmet-to-helmet impact analyses in football
• Managed experimental laboratory to develop new football helmet test standards based on actual impact conditions
• Interfaced with Siemens, HBM, DTS, and Endevco test equipment and MATLAB to analyze helmet impact test results
• Operated BASLER high-speed cameras to capture and analyze helmet impact tests

While working in the Power Generation Research group for Southern Company, I have worked under Mechanical Engineering experts in the field. Became thoroughly knowledgable of mainly coal-fired power plant components and processes from the coal yard to the line yard. Assisted in research projects including, but not limited to, steam temperature control.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and.