Cade Capps Email & Phone Number

Conroe, Tx, Us

Conroe, Tx, Us

• ETSY: www.capps3dpd.etsy.com• Small business owner• 60+ custom designs • 650+ sales • Retail and SEO• Printing custom designs and Aggie memorabilia• Licensed vendor for Texas A&M University

SolidWorks (CAD) Tutoring, Virtual July 2024-August 2024Tutor• Tutored CAD to a student• Designed (to scale) a Boeing 787 from scratch• 3D Printed the model as one piece (3 colors)• Plans to do wind tunnel testing on it• Plans to continue tutoring during the winter break

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Flight control actuators, specs, and supplier coordination• Hydraulic schematics, Tier 1/2/3 level requirements and tracing them to each parent and child to be loaded into Cameo, specification coordination, and proposing leveraging new and innovative technologies in different sectors

• Presented the need for homelessness and the need for affordable shelters and other basic amenities such as water, electricity, toilet, stove, etc. • Mentored a team of mechanical engineers to building a prototype model. • The version of the prototype is still being worked on, as the goal is to secure grant funding and reserved spaces/land for small modular villages to build communities. • Was able to secure funding via a sponsorship with Boeing (the company I was working at that time).

Arlington, Va, Us

• Primarily under the scope of sustaining engineering for the KC-46 electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic boom system for aerial refueling• Completed Root Cause & Corrective Analysis (RCCA) for different components of the system, mainly focused on the rudder and elevator• Collaborated with the supplier and managed records while also updating the traceability of the source control document (SCD) and interface control document (ICD)

Arlington, Va, Us

• Designed and analyzed hydraulic valves for multiple airplane platforms • Aided design of a motor-operated valve and solid-state electronics. Mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical system• CATIA, Mechanical-Hydraulic-Electrical Design• Electrical wiring and assembly design• Published design guide for electrical wiring for internal manifolds of all current and future aircraft platforms• Simplified solenoid based simulation modeling in an easy to use approach for implementing greater efficiency and accurate flow modeling techniques• Optimization scripts for designing valves using MATLAB and Simulink while also having considerations for DFM principles• Multiple invention disclosures utilizing capabilities across business sectors and advanced technologies with several trade secrets (protected) and a meritorious award• Extracurricular courses: Hydraulic System Analysis, GD&T-ASME Y14.5-2009, Landing Gear Systems

• Developed an autonomous thermo-mechanical fatigue testing apparatus to run for months at a time• Created a PID controller of a pneumatic cylinder for mechanical load control and induction heating and a vortex tube for thermal cycling• Developed for Shape Memory Alloy certification for future aircraft development• Systems integration, electro-pneumatic design, magnetic measurement, and failure mode analysis• The testing apparatus is still being used today and more are planned to be built

• Modeled direct injection processes of diesel fuels and their atomization process• Utilized Linux in C++ based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for modeling two-phase flow to characterize the liquid fuel breakup in diesel engine injection systems• Industry-sponsored research by Cummins• Delivered progress reports on updated research methods• Developed a GUI to create a user-friendly program to observe changes and understand how injectors and general internal combustion engines work to motivate students to pursue studies in engineering and STEM-related fields. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Broader Impacts.I worked in the Computational Thermo-Fluids and Energy System Laboratory for industry-sponsored research by Cummins. In my research, I investigated the direct injection processes of diesel fuels and their atomization process by using an open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code. I entirely taught myself how to code with C++. A GUI was built for simulating injector flow development for various flow conditions you could toggle through for both Cummins and the NSF foundation for teaching youth with an easy to use tool that could be installed on any computer

Materials and Manufacturing Laboratory• Research: Tribology, 3D printing material development, pharmaceutical additive manufacturing• Pharmaceutical additive manufacturing research with plans to combine SLS additive manufacturing with PLA that is food and drug safe by the FDA so that you could precisely tune the bioavailability of the drug to target specific locations in the body as well as finely tune the dosage of the medication• Plans were made to combine efforts with research scientists and for me to aid additive manufacturing development in a new laboratory in the Health and Science Center (College of Medicine)

Bryan, Tx, Us

• Performed and set up experiments using advanced laser diagnostics for combustion and fluid dynamics research; individually as well as collaboratively with undergraduate and graduate students• Designed and collaborated with industry professionals to build novel burner facility for advanced fuels research• Experienced in ultrafast lasers, laser spectroscopy, scientific imaging equipment, timing generators and data acquisition hardware for combustion and propulsion applications• Streamlined analytical and data processing tasks by developing automated, user-friendly programs using MATLAB and ExcelPublications:Yejun Wang, Cade Capps, and Waruna D. Kulatilaka, "Femtosecond two-photon laser-induced fluorescence of krypton for high-speed flow imaging," Opt. Lett. 42, 711-714 (2017)During my work at the research lab, I collaborated with graduate students, research professors and industry professionals, streamlined data acquisition systems and created robust analytical programs to decrease the turnaround time for analyzing data. I was then tasked with my very own project, involving the building and systems integration of a combustion burner to simulate gas turbine injectors for combustion analysis of premixed flames. I enjoyed having zero experience coming into the position as I had to learn combustion science, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer. I enjoyed working with people from a variety of different skill sets, from graduate students, French physicists, and fuel injection companies in order to select the right components for the system. I also enjoyed the freedom to be creative and came up with innovative solutions to cut costs and optimize performance such as utilizing a syringe pump, which is normally used for biomedical applications, as the constant flow rate fuel pump. The burner was a complete success and is still being utilized today for research by the DOE and resulted in my first publication.

• Organized and maintained warehouse• Safely handled and diluted chemicals• Operated a forklift to load and unload for distribution

• Taught and implemented gun safety• Documented expenses and operated a cash register

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Education record

High School