Joel Kuhn Email & Phone Number

Ontario, Canada

Lead R+D projects related to instruments and controls for the IMSR400

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Researched and developed equipment and techniques to reduce coating defects in YSZ coatings.
• Empirically developed a CNC mechanical surface treatment technique for plasma spray coatings
• Researched and created a method to visualize gas leaks from micron sized surface pores

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Researched and developed equipment and techniques to reduce coating defects in YSZ coatings.
• Characterized solid oxide cells with voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy, equivalent circuit fitting, and scanning electron microscopy
• Designed, fabricated, assembled, and tested a high speed, high temperature (500-950 °C) rotating substrate holder/machine for YSZ plasma spray coating deposition

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Designed, fabricated, assembled, and tested six high temperature (500-900 °C) solid oxide fuel cell test stations (electrochemical test fixtures, furnace assemblies, and gas mixture systems)
• Invented device for generation of high humidity fuel streams (up to 100 vol%) with very low concentration fluctuations.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Taught Dynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Circuits with Application to Mechanical Engineering Systems, and Fuel Cell Systems.

Juelich, Germany

• Studied trends in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrolyte failure as a function of test conditions and resulting degree of oxidation.

• Worked in Test-Equipment Engineering, Electric Systems-Thermal Analysis Group, and Electric Systems-Structural Dynamics Group.
• Used ICEPAK (thermal analysis FEA software) to conduct trade studies on aerospace quality motors and circuit boards.
• Analyzed structural dynamics of aerospace electronic enclosures, circuit boards, and generators using ANSYS and other software to find mode shapes, natural frequencies, stress, and equivalent stiffness.
• Performed diagnostic tests to troubleshoot hardware problems using data acquisition equipment to characterize structural dynamic behavior of test equipment, generator rotors, and electronic enclosures.

• Worked on design and manufacturing of forward placement concrete trucks.
• Troubleshot assembly line and component design problems.
• Communicated with assemblers, vendors, and service people.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: AMIGAS

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IAESTE, UW Cycling Club