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Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

- Develop locomotive Cab structures considering equipment packaging needs, servicing, installation to locomotive platform, and manufacturing practices - Verify designs through weld and bolted-joint calculations, supporting FEA analysis team on required load cases and boundary conditions- Support on-site manufacturing to resolve design issues, manufacturing defects, supplier deviations, and quality concerns- Perform on-site component and on-locomotive testing for global Cabs team - Lead root-cause analysis and provide resolution for Cab component reliability cases

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

- Developed subsystem specific software regression test plans considering software and configuration changes- Performed testing on Hardware-in-the-Loop simulators and static locomotive testing to verify subsystem functionality- Analyzed, documented, and presented data from regression testing- Developed testing guidelines and resources per subsystem to facilitate testing process

Erie, Pennsylvania

- Represented student body by participating in student panels for prospective students- Led campus tours for groups up to 30 people - Assisted with open house and special campus outreach programs

Erie, Pennsylvania

- Documented prospective student information- Arranged and sent out mass-mailings- Assisted with front desk duties

Erie, Pennsylvania

- Collaborated to design and manufacture a lithium battery internal short circuit test machine with constraints requiring a solution that was portable, inexpensive, and comparable to industry models- Designed and fabricated system enclosure for external short circuit testing of lithium based batteries- Worked with a professor and other research students to devise system to provide variable heating of inlet fuel stream for microscale direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs)- Implemented fuel stream heater in DMFCs to determine the effects of elevated temperature on electrode characteristics and performance - Investigated the use and performance of electrically conductive plastics in the manufacture of DMFCs

Erie, Pennsylvania

- Worked with engineers and test lab technicians on test fixtures and implemented procedures for bolt and nut testing- Analyzed and documented data results from bolt and nut testing, presented to lead engineers- Performed and formally documented stress calculations on tapered bearing ball mating to an aircraft engine mount- Compiled fatigue analysis on Auxiliary Power Unit mounting system into technical report