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Greater San Diego Area

• Increased overall capacity and throughput of the wet test dept. by managing the installation and qualification of an 800 psi test loop
• Managed the design, installation and qualification of a new walk-in vacuum rinse tank system that reduced lift related injures
• Designed a custom FRP Resin Bath that trimmed both setup time (30 minutes per shift) and total resin consumption (50% less)
• Directed a 100+ element study that resulted in a one hour reduction on the vacuum rinse process for the entire seawater product line
• Assisted Production, Maintenance and Product Development teams with CAD support while managing multiple engineering projects
• Collaborated with Managers, Engineers, Maintenance, Scientists, Production Workers and various Hydranautics vendors daily

Greater San Diego Area

• Created an ergonomic test cart using Inventor that increases the safety of production workers during wet test process
• Designed & assembled a mobile test skid to assist with qualification of our home reverse osmosis (RO) products
• Engaged in safety-related engineering projects such as element holding carts & FRP outer wrap guarding
• Researched methods & strategies to efficiently reduce glue use in the 8” RO product line
• Assisted in development & quality of home RO product line by conducting wet tests & analyzing autopsy reports
• Utilized Inventor to create custom parts & drawings for various engineering projects at Hydranautics

Orange County, California Area

• Created and edited diverse molds and parts using Solidworks to meet specific requirements of the customers
• Composed detailed drawings of parts and molds in Solidworks for production
• Assisted in the production and quality control of plastic and metal parts using CNC lathes and mills
• Created spreadsheets of an up to date job list that cover a wide range of manufacturing techniques
• Performed research and development in long term projects to completion
• Worked closely with Project Managers, Engineers, and Machinists on a daily basis

Orange County, California Area

• Collaborated with Graduate Researcher Ming-Je and classmates to in the investigation of cryomilling Aluminum 5083 with Diamantine additives and performed grain size analysis of TEM images using ImageJ
• Produced a cryomilling poster board and presented our research at the UCI UROP Symposium
• Subjected numerous materials to uniaxial tension in tensile testing and investigated their failure using the SEM
• Worked closely with Graduate Researcher to prepare specimens for the SEM and TEM

Orange County, California Area

• Operated in a small team with four other Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering undergraduates
• Replicated various springs in Solidworks from provided samples and dimensions
• Performed Finite Element Analysis in Solidworks on modeled springs to determine a force vs. deflection curve
• Conducted force vs. deflection experiments on springs using an Instrum and compared results
• Attended weekly meetings with the Engineering Team at Performance Sealing to discuss progress
• Presented our research and findings as a team to other companies, teachers, and students