Pouyan (Paul) Rahnama Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Performed fatigue life assessments for complex mechanical systems, enhancing durability and reliability in real-world applications.
• Conducted thermal, static, and dynamic analyses of multi-component systems, optimizing performance and ensuring reliability across diverse operating conditions.
• Collaborated with cross-functional design and development teams to conceptualize, validate, and implement innovative engineering solutions.
• Designed and executed comprehensive testing protocols, validating results and correlating them with simulations to improve accuracy and model fidelity.
• Authored detailed technical documentation, including design specifications, analysis reports, and testing procedures, to support product development and regulatory compliance.

Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada

• Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to ensure quality performance and stability of the tooling under working condition
• Design and product development to improve the life of the tooling by 300%
• Analytical and numerical process simulations to help optimize current designs, development of new products, address existing issues, and educate the industry about the process
• Failure analysis and fatigue analysis of the components under cyclic loads to check the durability of the final products
• CFD analysis combined with structural and thermo-structural analysis to study and optimize the heat transfer and cooling performance of the tooling and study the effect design on thermal regulators
• Developed and implemented C++ and Python codes to increase the simulation process and setup speed by up to 80%

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Designing turbine components for metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) and prototyping using multi-disciplinary topology optimization by modelling software systems (Siemens NX and HyperWorks)
• Implementing coupled innovative topology optimization and thermal simulation for thermo-mechanical modelling and design of complex 3D-printed parts
• Generating MATLAB code to extract, organize, and analyze data from the software tool output to select the proper design from generated results
• Planning and conducting multi-loading experiments to evaluate the performance of the parts manufactured by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology
• Developing technical documentation for the industrial partners

Courses: Engineering Drawing, Mechanics of Deformable Solids, Mechanical Design, Introduction to MEMS Fabrication

Tabas, Iran

• A member of the institution council committee (local branch)
• Tutoring physics and mathematics
• Communication organizer between the institution branch and the headquarter

Tehran Province, Iran

• Investigating the effect of aeroelasticity on flight dynamic coefficients to predict the vibrations and stability behaviour of an airplane
• Evaluating the airplane’s wing buffeting loads to calculate local forces

Tehran, Iran

• Students Annual Aerospace Competition (Aerocomp)
• Evaluating participants based on the performance of their designs
• Coordinating the venue on competition day an communication organizer between the competition committee and sponsors

Master Of Applied Science - Masc

Bachelor'S Degree