Kenneth Mcgowan Email & Phone Number

Waynesburg, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Designed, developed, and tested components, systems, and test fixtures for advanced medical devices. Created 3D models, drawings, bills of materials, and specifications for products, raw materials, and components. Prototyped and tested new components and systems. Troubleshot and improved existing designs. Led investigations of nonconformances and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.• Performed extensive design modifications to mechanisms and enclosures of new circulatory support system (LifeSPARC), correcting issues with performance and manufacturability and driving product from prototype to commercial release.• Served as part of team that developed automated fixtures, drastically reducing amount of time required for incoming inspection and testing of circuit boards.• Partnered with external suppliers and quality control and manufacturing teams to implement changes that reduced scrap, improved manufacturability, and increased product performance.

Canonsburg, Pa

Executed research and development of new cookware products, new manufacturing processes, and innovative materials. Collaborated with industrial teams to transition new products from prototype stage to pilot runs to mass production. Interfaced with marketing team to ensure new products met demands of modern consumers. Performed laboratory tests to evaluate performance of All-Clad and competing products. • Helped develop novel process for manufacturing stick-resistant, bonded-metal cookware that does not require nonstick (PTFE, ceramic) coatings.• Worked on high-performance, lightweight cookware, utilizing advanced, non-metallic thermal management materials to achieve 40% weight savings versus similarly performing cookware.• Contributed to development of new process for joining metals and nonmetals that allowed for cost savings, reduced scrap, and could form previously impossible material combinations.

Worked as part of multidisciplinary product development team to create novel technologies for use in medical devices and energy conversion systems.• Developed new oxygen concentration technology, enabling creation of portable medical oxygen concentrator that was 50% lighter and able to operate twice as long on battery charge as units with comparable oxygen output. This technology also enabled creation of personal oxygen concentrator that weighed approximately 1lb, as well as miniature wound-therapy device.• Co-authored successful proposals to government agencies (NSF, NIH, PEDA) and private investors, securing funding that enabled development of new technologies and successful products.• Designed and developed prototypes of novel type of external combustion engine and participated in project to install parabolic trough concentrating solar-thermal panels that could be used to heat buildings and generate electricity.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of ASME Focus on structural mechanics, advanced materials, and instrumentation. Participated.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of the FutureTruck advanced vehicle design team, member of ASME