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Dyersville, Ia, Us

- Completed 60+ projects and 100+ bids over 40+ states including salt storages, warehouse storages, athletic facilities, riding arena and vehicle testing building. - Communicated with building officials to verify building design criteria. Advised customers on structural design questions. - Modeled and analyzed truss and beam buildings with fabric or metal cladding in RISA-3D. - Reviewed building, foundation and part drawings and created final calcs reports. - Finite element analysis of connection parts. Evaluated new designs to meet required standards. - Proficient with design codes, IBC, ASCE and AISC. Mentored undergraduate summer interns.

Research Excellence Award Summer 2022< Fatigue experiment and reliability analysis on high mast lighting towers >• Investigated tubular weld, bolted connections and foundations of traffic structures in AASHTO• Built FE models and simulated stress response at bolted connections and weld connections• Designed fatigue test setup including steel frames, connections, load cell, strain gauges,transducers and data acquisition device, and produced 2D installation plans in AutoCAD.• Performed fatigue and non-destructive tests and verified fatigue resistance of full-scale samples• Presented progress and results to the engineers from Iowa DOT and Valmont Industries, Inc.< Long-term health monitoring and response prediction of a cantilever-arm traffic signal structure >• Cooperated with engineers from City of Ames to install sensors on a structure in the field.• Created 3D models of steel structures based on engineering drawings from Iowa DOT manuals• Managed and analyzed monitoring data to study the wind-induced structural behavior• Used the monitoring data and machine learning technique to predict wind-induced vibration• Developed simulation-based and data-driven algorithms to predict fatigue life and reliability

Ames, Iowa, Us

< Mechanics of Materials Laboratory > - Lectured in topics of material mechanics pertinent to each laboratory experiment - Demonstrated procedures and safety regulations - Taught and supervised students in writing scientific reports - Cooperated with the lecture instructor and enhanced students’ learning efficiency

Nankang, Taipei, Tw

< Crowdsourcing Map Website > - Developed a crowd sourcing website as a part of the earthquake reporting system - Utilized AngularJS and PHP to develop user interface and manage database - Cooperated with researchers from the Institute of Earth Science, Academia Sinica

Tainan, Taiwan, Tw

< Stability Analysis and Dynamic Response of Heliogyro Solar Sail >The project investigated the structural dynamics of a heliogyro solar sail proposed by NASA. Without a supporting frame, like traditional square sails, the heliogyro is expected to have much lower weight and travel more efficiently.• Derived equations of motion of a multibody system with rigid and flexible structures• Simulated the motion response of the solar sail under a constant spinning rate and solar pressure.• Extracted system eigenvalues at various spinning rate and analyzed flutter instability in MATLAB• Presented results in international conferences and published one peered-review journal 1. 4th International Symposium on Solar Sailing, Japan (Jan. 2017) 2. 6th International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, Vietnam (Mar. 2015)

Tainan, Taiwan, Tw

< Applied System Identification > - State-Space Model - Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (ERA) - Observer-Kalman Identification (OKID)< Applied Control > - Tuned Mass Damper - Virtual Passive Control - Pole Placement Technique - Predictive Control

Hometek Electronics is a house intercom electrical company developing smart house technologies. My task during the summer internship period was to implement the connection between smart phones and smart intercoms. - Utilized C# for developing user interface on smart intercom and Java for smart phone application. - Connected smart phone, surveillance camara and smart intercom. House owners are able to remotely identify their guests and open the house gate through their smart phones.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering)

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Science