M Reza Najjari, Ph.D., P.Eng Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

✔ Managing R&D Team of Talented Engineers in Thermal and Mechanical Engineering.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

✔ Performed Research and Development on cooling technologies, coldplates, all-in-one coolers and our next-gen products.✔ Engaged with customers and designed various novel cooling solutions for their products.✔ Designed and implemented several testing techniques in CoolIT's state of the art Innovation Center.

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

✔ Simulated a two-phase bubble-liquid flow in the upper-planum of the reactor core to model gas stripping.✔ Reduced the pressure loss in the reactor core plates by implementing an enhanced nozzles geometry to better control the flow distributions.✔ Reviewed the design of heat exchangers for natural and forced convections under Design-Basis Accidents (DBA) and Beyond Design-Basis Accidents (BDBA).

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

✔ Significant Contribution in designing a benchtop wind tunnel and choosing materials, fan and controller.✔ Developed a successful NSERC RTI grant proposal, awarded $148,985.00 enabling my team to obtain a new state-of-the-art ultrasound system.✔ Advised two graduate students and provided technical support to my colleagues in various projects.✔ Designed new and optimized existing test protocols, and conducted experimental and analytical research projects in the area of Mechanical Engineering and Fluid Dynamics, using advanced optical and ultrasound measurement techniques.✔ Taught: Biological Fluid Dynamics (28 Undergraduate students), Winter 2019 & Fall 2019.✔ Published 3 journal articles in top-tier journals

Member of YGK Ventilator Team to design, and build a functional ventilator prototype in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a successful design and prototype in 14 days.Our design was chosen to be in the top 9 between 1029 other participating teams (from 94 countries) as part of the Code Life Ventilator Challenge.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

✔ Managed $40,000.00 US budget for lab expenditures and purchase of research requirements.✔ Designed experimental facilities and flow loops for thermo-fluid mechanics projects and provided technical support for design, component selection and characterizing a wind tunnel.✔ Performed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to simulate steady and unsteady, transient flows and validated the results with my experimental data. ✔ Performed flow measurements using various hardware including DAQs, CCD/CMOS cameras, lasers and optical components.✔ Investigated evolution of vortical structures in curved artery models by Particle Image Velocimetry measurements ✔ Setup of advanced laser-based optical measurement & imaging techniques, integrated with several sensors including thermometer, pressure and flow sensors.✔ Developed a PID control system to control the pump✔ Designed and developed an optical experimental setup for plasma jet flow measurement.✔ Supervised students and participated in acoustic data measurements and data analysis in phonation research using microphones, DAQs and cameras.✔ Published 6 journal articles in top-tier journals and presented in 4 international conferences.✔ Performed vortex identification in unsteady flow through curved artery models. ✔ Manufactured elastic thin-wall curved artery models for fluid flow measurements.✔ Developed a PID control system to control the pump to produce pulsatile flow rates in the flow loop.✔ Maintained and repaired several sensitive laboratory equipment and sensors: Lasers, 3D printers, and cameras and developed operating procedures for various laboratory equipment.✔ Designed numerous custom-built enclosures, test fixturing, structural supports, and injection molding parts using 3D CAD tools (SolidWorks, AutoCAD)

✔ Focused on guiding graduate students in STEM to prepare for life after graduation

✔ Managed and supervised a team of 10 people for the set-up of mechanical system installations (HVAC, piping systems, Mechanical room, chiller) in different projects.✔ Designed mechanical systems and Mechanical rooms (chillers, pumps, heaters) for various construction projects.✔ Collaborated with civil and electrical engineering teams to resolve onsite challenges, as well as provided reports to our clients.✔ Calculated cost estimates of several projects for the bidding process, prepared bill of materials (BOM), purchase orders (POs), and prepared and signed contracts for our technical contractors.✔ Supervised mechanical installations in three projects: A seven-story dormitory building; a central metro station site; and a sports complex building.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 🎓, Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering (Fluid Dynamics), A

Engineering Simulations

✔ Finite-element analysis (FEA) ✔ Fluid dynamics simulations (CFD) using ANSYS Fluent™ ✔ Structural mechanics simulations using ANSYS.

Master'S Degree 🎓, Mechanical Engineering - Fluid & Energy Conversion, A

Bachelor'S Degree 🎓, Fluid Mechanical Engineering, A