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%• Part of the R&D team to increase the efficiency of tooling by more than 10% in heat extraction• High performance in a cross-functional team while coordinating with the design and sales group to produce the best product• Using metallography and material science techniques to analyze and certify the microstructure and mechanical properties of the company’s tooling

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