Lena Risler Email & Phone Number

Tualatin

Optimizes engineering design and business process to minimize cost, maximize speed to solution, and maximize quality. Create and review engineering standards. Overhauled engineering business process for substantial cost savings ($M/annually). Collaborate on cross functional teams to create or modify business processes.

Portland, Oregon Area

Design castings, weldments, and assemblies related to steer axles.

Portland, Oregon Area

Work with electro-mechanical systems in fuel cells and lithium ion battery packs including but not limited to: wire harnesses, brackets and weldments.Worked to design using OEM and package components together to meet the design requirements.Created ECNs and use a PLM software to revise previous components.Designs created using Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0.

• Act as a liaison between the faculty and the students
• Coordinate major professional and academic events
• Advocate for students in matters of academic concern

• Assisted students with hardware and software problems on library computers
• Worked with IT to solve major and minor computer and printer problems

• Created additional tutorials for first year engineering students for select courses

• Acquire funding for the club in order to receive the parts necessary to build the car
• Record minutes and use Robert’s Rules of Order to keep meetings running smoothly
• Use SolidWorks to create models of parts of the car

• Organized a conference for the Western Engineering Student Societies’ Team for more than 50 students from Winnipeg to Victoria
• Acquired $20,000 in sponsorship to fund the conference
• Lead a team of 6 to plan the accommodations, catering, conference space and evening activities

• Coordinated major events within the society and managed up to 50 volunteers
• Acted as a liaison between the students and faculty, and other student societies
• Developed workshop to teach students to use basic tools necessary for engineering with the goal of lowering the drop out rate, particularly with female students
• Created and distributed agendas, a first time project for 850 students
• Delivered numerous speeches to the engineering student body

• Acquired funding and budgeted for delegates to attend numerous engineering leadership conferences throughout the year with strict deadlines
• Represented UBC’s Okanagan Campus to other engineering schools across Canada including debates to resolve current issues that face engineering students at seven different leadership conferences
• Planned an engineering competition with over 50 attendees
• Acted as liaison between APEG-BC and other industry representatives to UBC
• Ensured events were within budget and tasks were completed on time
• Organized outreach events to encourage female high school students to study engineering and provided support to female engineering students to keep them from dropping out (and have continued this beyond my role as.

Worked with an electrical engineering professor to create figures to be used in notes for a circuitry class which required learning CorelDraw and Matlab

Master Of Science - Ms, Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Mechanical Engineering

Courses include: Multi-criteria Optimization and Design of Experiments, Soil Mechanics, HVAC, Materials Selection and Design, Heat and.