Ian Walters Email & Phone Number

Corvallis, Or, Us

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Engineering Design and Experiment Development:Led requirements definition, design, procurement, build-up, integration, and qualification of a $0.5 million test platform for high pressure air breathing combustors (0.5-2 MPa), including thrust stand (40 kN), high pressure fluid systems (40 MPa), instrumentation, and control subsystems.Developed a high pressure (2 MPa) natural gas-air RDE from concept generation through detailed design, materials selection, thermal-stress & injector flow analysis, drawing generation, and test facility integration.Combustion Device Development:Led 6 experimental campaigns testing 3 engineering-scale (30 MW) combustors, totaling over 300 hot fires.Coordinated combustor-facility integration and managed test operations for an Aerojet Rocketdyne project.Selected transducers and applied high-speed instrumentation, imaging, and laser-based diagnostics (100 kHz-2 MHz) to conduct measurements in inhospitable combustion environments.Standardized MATLAB data reduction routines within research group to unify approaches to flow measurement using real gas thermodynamics and quantifying experimental uncertainties.Data Analysis and Modeling:Developed data reduction algorithm in Python for processing high speed video that increased throughput by a factor of 100 while enhancing robustness and accuracy.Formulated and developed a quasi-1D, compressible, reacting flow simulation in Python for design exploration. Increased simulation throughput by implementing MPI parallelism and by researching, selecting, and incorporating numerical algorithms targeted for the application.Derived RDE thermodynamic model, elucidating design factors that govern combustor performance and quantitatively bounding injector design space required to realize thermodynamic efficiency advantages.Published multiple peer-reviewed papers in top academic journals and presented research at conferences.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Member of the Combustion, Ignition, Radiation, and Energy Lab directed by Dr. David Blunck.Undergraduate thesis title: Effects of Dilution on Turbulent Consumption Speeds of Jet FuelDesigned and installed fluid lines, calibrated flow controllers, operated experiment, and processed data.

Portland, Oregon Area

Client Computing Group, Thermal/Mechanical Systems EngineeringCorrelated detailed CFD model of a tablet computer with experimental data to identify important parameters and develop best practices for conducting future simulations, resulting in a 5x error reduction.Developed a DoE approach to conduct correlation and shared technique at internal thermal design forum.Conducted thermal analysis and recommended design modifications to enable customers to integrate Intel technology within thermal comfort performance limits.

Portland, Oregon Area

Designed and implemented new equipment to increase throughput, enhance safety, and reduce cost.Developed mechanical design, managed CAD models, created manufacturing drawings, and conducted FEA for projects that produce $4.3 million/year in cost savings and additional throughput.

Portland, Oregon Area

Generated large scale orthographic utility layout drawings for a semiconductor fab, requiring familiarity with P&IDs, process equipment, pipe routing, and Building Information Modeling.Managed project engineering tools to enhance communication and increase visibility of key metrics.

Portland, Oregon Area

Evaluated the website Instructables as an avenue for Autodesk to connect with nonprofessional customersCollaborated with other interns to develop bxd.autodesk.com, a website that trains students to use Autodesk software

Portland, Oregon Area

Assessed ease-of-use of the Inventor 2012 computer aided design software package and provided feedback to the Product Management teamDeveloped instructional videos that taught students to use Inventor 2012 with a team of other interns

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 4.0

Operability and Performance of Rotating Detonation Engines

Honors Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Global Formula Racing Team, FIRST Robotics Team Mentor