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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 Comprehensive laser keyhole welding model including heat transfer, fluid flow, multiple Fresnel reflections, and free surface tracking.o Gibbs energy-based multi-component dendrite growth and microsegregation model combining Cellular Automata and Phase Field methods.• 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 semester.• 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