Daniel Heathcote, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

United States

High Lift design lead for Aurora’s Liberty Lifter wing-in-ground effect aircraft.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Aerodynamics engineer working on Aurora’s flight demonstrator programs including EPFD and SFD/X-66

Danbury, Connecticut, United States

• Managed key accounts worth in excess of $5 million per annum, negotiated and executed contracts with the customer
• Managed new product introduction within the plant, coordinated a cross-functional team, including production, engineering, and quality assurance employees
• Verified bearing designs meet and exceed customer requirements, including identifying improvements to design and product cost
• Translated critical industrial standards to internal Schaeffler specifications, including MIL, AMS and ASTM standards, as well as customer-specific requirements for material and inspections
• Provided engineering technical support to the customer concerning future products, performed root cause analysis on failed bearings
• Identified areas of expansion for bearing products

Atlanta, GA

• Recruited to inter-group role and worked on several experimental and computational fluid dynamics projects including the development of new aerodynamic load control techniques and improved numerical simulation of.
• Designed, constructed and tested wind tunnel models and novel flow control actuators
• Implemented innovative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) boundary conditions and modeling techniques for the simulation of gust-wing interactions
• Conducted flow diagnostics using techniques including stereoscopic PIV, pressure, force and hot wire anemometry measurements
• Developed comprehensive post-processing programs to analyze diverse, large-scale (tera-byte) datasets, extracted key conclusions and validated fundamental aerodynamic theories
• Supervised PhD and Master’s students, providing design and technical support

Bath

• Employed to assist project sponsor, Airbus UK, in the design, development and testing of novel aerodynamic flow control actuator: the mini-tab. Supervised by Dr. David Cleaver and Prof. Ismet Gursul.Key.
• Designed, engineered and tested the actuator, meeting project sponsor performance requirements
• Developed programmatic codes to analyze large, quantitative datasets obtained from wind tunnel tests
• Established a system resonance calibration technique for dynamic force measurements
• Applied data analysis skills, technical expertise and theoretical knowledge to quantify actuator’s efficacy through parametric analyses
• Effectively communicated conclusions and progress to the project sponsor via industrial reports and sponsor meetings, and to a wider audience via academic journal articles (2) and at national (4) and international.

• While completing my PhD, I was recruited to a short-term, highly collaborative project examining the aero-structural properties of two aeroelastic stiffness tailoring techniques. The project was seed funded by the UK.
• Worked within a multidisciplinary team to develop novel wing load control technologies
• Delivered project aims within extremely tight timeframe, with the results presented in a conference paper.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Research completed into skin friction drag, caused by a buoyant body moving through water under Prof. Kwing-So Choi.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Research completed into high load, high speed air bearings under Prof. Seamus Garvey.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Thesis title: Aerodynamic Loads Alleviation Using Mini-tabs

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Mechanical Engineering, 1St Class, (Hons)

Activities and Societies: Nottingham Mechanical Engineering Society, Rambling Society (RamSoc), Baseball SocietyAwarded 1st class degree.

Exchange Program, Mechanical Engineering

1 year academic exchange student

A-Levels, Mathematics (Mechanics), Physics, Design And Technology, German

Activities and Societies: Ten Tors (Dartmoor Society), Cricket, Duke of Edinburgh's Award.