Jeff Beckman Email & Phone Number

Greater San Diego Area

• I am an engineer supporting a wide variety of customer projects involving structural, thermodynamic and fluid mechanical analysis. Most of my time is spent applying numerical techniques to our customer's engineering.
• Propellant management using a vane type PMD and microgravity slosh dynamics for a space based telescope
• Structural optimization of the thrust structure for a reusable launch vehicle
• High G and microgravity slosh prediction for a reusable launch vehicle under multiple phases of flight
• Stress analysis for a roller coaster track switch with complex 3d motion requiring compliance with EN structural steel codes
• Solar heating and phase change heat storage for a solar powered water heater for use at military facilities

• In the Specialty Analysis, Aerodynamics group, I perform aerodynamic analysis using CFD, analytic methods and testing. My work focuses on external sub sonic and trans sonic flow with some combined internal and external.
• Lead aerodynamics engineer for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) engine nacelle, taking initiative to identify problems and resolve them with both internal and external customers
• Give presentations during design reviews to fellow team members, internal clients, external clients and upper management, gaining excellent oral communication experience
• Subject matter expert for cascade type turbofan thrust reverser sizing
• Performed thrust reverser sizing analysis for the MRJ and Bombardier C-series using analytic methods coupled with empirical correlation with test data
• Coordinated 3 static isolated scale model aerodynamic compliance tests, both internally and in cooperation with ASE Fluidyne, investigating data trends and explaining previously misunderstood phenomena

In the Associate Rotation program I spent time in:-test lab, AH-64 tail rotor concept test-specialty analysis thermodynamics group, 787 aft core cowl thermal blanketing analysis-specialty analysis aerodynamics group, next generation single aisle concept evaluation-787 design group, thermal blanketing design