Gavin Packard Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Pontiac, Michigan, United States

Houston, Texas Area

- Support existing tools by verifying operating envelopes and limits using both hand calculations and finite element analysis (ANSYS), and maintaining accurate engineering product files (CREO/SolidWorks)- Redesign existing tools to meet market and customer demands, included managing design process, writing test plans, participating in lab testing, and generating engineering product files- Manage and perform Rapid Response work for engineering products to support field requests through engineering change orders and engineering change requests- Peer review all engineering product file changes, including drawing markups, checking material specifications, and verifying proper application of secondary processes such as welding and surface coatings- Quality control of product lines by reviewing Non-Conformance Reports and Manufacturing Waivers- Manage accounting of charges to internal company customers

The University Of Texas At Austin

- Designed and constructed new wind tunnel to facilitate unprecedented sponsor requirements - Became proficient in the application of uncertainty analysis to design and refine experimental setups- Designed for manufacture complex 3-dimensional scaled airfoils with internal features and cooling passages - Designed secondary flow coolant loop to support thin film cooling research on scaled airfoils- Experimentally measured external heat transfer coefficients on a curved airfoil surface using IR Thermography- Verified method of isotropic turbulence generation using an upstream grid that resulted in a published empirical correlation; measurements performed using a hotwire system- Measured two dimensional flow fields upstream of airfoil using particle image velocimetry

Tucson, Arizona - Misawa, Jp

- Responsible for diagnostics and repairs of electronic countermeasure systems- Liaised with foreign nationals and spent time living in different countries and cultures- Recipient of Iraq Campaign Medal

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering