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Plano, Texas, Us

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

- Work closely with structural heart engineering team and operations to develop creative manufacturing solutions.- Design/prototype new tooling and fixtures to aid manufacturing through their daily routines.- Monitor and maintain high process yields for Catheters and Heart Occluder Devices.- Work closely with nitinol and other medical grade materials.- Work with machinery including injection molders, swagers, laser welders, laser cutters, catheter tipping machines, packaging machinery, robots and high temperature ovens.- Use SolidWorks CAD software for tooling design.- Lots of technical writing including MP's, IQ's, validation/verification, drawings, specificaitons, inspections, etc.- Hands on machinery and equipment repairs.

Duluth, Mn, Us

-Work with team of engineering students to design solution to reduce Duluth, MN's light pollution.-Meet with team, client, and UMD professors every week, duties including: Research initial materials, brainstorm and prototype using SolidWorks, consult outside resources for materials, create manufacturing procedures, testing procedures, installation procedure along with the design specification to meet marketing and engineering requirements.-Fabricate protoype in the universities machine shop using water jet cutter, drills and other plastic/metal working tooling. -Aluminum sheet metal fabrication along with polypropylene sheet fabrication.-Research adhesive bonding ajents/solutions for sheet metal to polypropylene.-Present final product twice to client and large audiance.

Duluth, Minnesota, Us

- Work on UMD research team to develop and research molding processes for organic thermoplastic compounds for injection molding machine.- Meet with team every week to discuss progress and further actions required.- Work with outside sources for feedback, new equipment, and materials.- Work in UMD machine shop, using injection molding machine, ovens, and other various tooling.

Plano, Texas, Us

1) Develop, prototype and inspect leads for innovative cochlear implant device- Assembly from start to finish using precise manufacturing equipment including: - Microscopes, laser welder, resistance welder, lathe, molding machines (thermoplastics and thermosets), grinder and other precise tooling. - Work with many plastic and metal materials including but limited to silicones, tecothanes, platinum, silver, steels. - Measure finished parts using precise vision inspection systems.2) Manufacturing line down issue - Line only yielding roughly 30% good parts for a lead made inhouse. - Inspect product for defects with precise measuring equipment - Work with team to write a new SPEC - Improved yield to 80%3) Lead clamping fixture design - Design fixture to aid manufacturing employees - Use solidworks to design and then 3D print different prototypes - Later test fixture and qualify it to be used in process.4) Write documents - IQ for vision system and thermoregulator, manufacturing procedures for new device, run through software validation procedures.5) Manage Inventory - Manage inventory for cochlear implant device to keep track of materials used to build device.

Frisco, Tx, Us

1) Work closely with process engineering team to develop catheter for Edwards Life Sciences.- Learn micro-molding and work with Lead Engineering Technician to find the correct settings on the machine so that it manufactured high quality parts.- Perform inspections on many of these prototyped parts to ensure part measured within tight tolerance ranges. Also looking for deformities such as flash, sink, and short shots.- Answer questions to Process Engineers about what kind of improvements the line could use.2) Update every micro-molding manufacturing procedure. - Obtain feedback from manufacturing employees and improve efficiency of manufacturing procedures. - Re-write/include new pictures for documents and update template for all. A total of 160 documents were updated.3) Create Installation Qualification (IQ) for 3 new dryer systems. - Carefully read through manual, contact the manufacturer and obtain any information relative to ensuring the system is installed and functions properly for use on the manufacturing floor. - Type out the information on the document to be used to perform the dryer installation.

Plano, Texas, Us

1) CAPA (Corrective and Preventative Assignments) Project - Thoroughly search through equipment database and find outdated information. These included obsolete equipment, missing equipment and inaccurate preventative maintenance procedures. - Create list of all equipment in facility by going around and obtaining serial #, model #, and equipment ID for every piece of equipment possible to aid in the improvement of the database.2) Company Assets - Obtain company asset list and locate all equipment on this list in the facility.3) Moisture Analyzers - Perform IQ on moisture analyzers after being calibrated. - Install new programs for many raw plastic materials.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Prepare several dishes of food before they get sent out to the customer while working at a very fast pace.

Direct employees to their work duties, train new employees, construct several landscape projects, work with heavy duty machinery, drive truck and trailer, mow lawns, communicate with customers to satisfy their needs.

Answer phone calls, create seating arrangements, maintain cleanliness of the restaurant, interact with customers.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Enineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering