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