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Apply additive manufacturing technologies to product advanced tooling in aluminum high-pressure die-casting.Lead Stellantis' binder jet technology development and collaboration with binder jet OEMs. Find direct part manufacturing opportunities within Stellantis to implement the first >1M parts/year in metal additive manufacturing.

London, England, GB

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Research goal: analyze and predict laser-material interaction on macro and micro scales with the long-term goal of optimizing advanced manufacturing processes.
• Numerical model development: o Residual stress prediction model based on thermal strains and solid phase transformational strains (including melting and solidification) in laser deposition and welding processes.o.
• Operate high-powered continuous-wave lasers in welding, surface cladding, direct-deposition, and 3D printing process.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Employ laser deposition system to prove concepts of fabrication, repair, and remanufacturing of Chrysler automotive die casting tooling.
• Utilize laser-hardening process and predictive modeling to locally harden only the contact faces of an internal spline on the main shaft of a Rolls Royce turbine engine.
• Optimize laser-hardening processes to prevent fatigue crack initiation on a crank shaft for International Trucks.
• Complete proprietary project for Regal Beloit.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Teaching Assistant for Purdue's Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program.
• Taught 3 2-hour labs per week, supervised team dynamics and completion of engineering projects, held office hours and laboratory hours each week, and graded all assignments for three engineering project teams per.
• Acted as a laboratory advisor to multidisciplinary students working with prototyping, manufacturing, machining, and designing for manufacturability.
• Coordinated with faculty advisor to assign final grades.
• Conducted open lecture sessions for all EPICS students on CAD theory, prototyping, FEA, manufacturing, lab safety, soldering, and microcontroller programming.
• Appointed in 2013 as team advisor (without supervising faculty advisor); only ME graduate student to hold this position.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Supervised establishment of inaugural event, oversaw design and manufacture of prototype cart, coordinated race-day preparations and conducted time trials.
• Managed public relations, recruitment of teams from other universities, both domestic and abroad.
• Designed, built, tested, and manufactured 35 electric vehicle monitoring systems with voltage, current, and efficiency measurements with wireless communication to ensure individual vehicle compliance to race regulations.
• Coordinated with Indianapolis Motor Speedway in subsequent years; held races at the Speedway in conjunction with IMS personnel.

Provo, UT, US

• Conducted lectures for undergraduate machine design course at professor’s discretion.
• Held regular help sessions to further instruct class members in machine design concepts.
• Graded weekly tests of class members.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, US

• Led project to increase material strength of dishwasher front panels by 33%.
• Created library of tolerance data to close gap between design and fabrication sectors.
• Compiled weekly reports on staff’s progress to present to management

• Improved design of company’s leading product; increased critical safety features by 63%.
• Regulated previously uncontrolled fabrication process.
• Utilized SolidWorks to design test equipment and LabVIEW to write data acquisition programs.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering