Thomas Moilanen Email & Phone Number

Duluth, Minnesota Area

General Manager of predictive maintenance company providing consulting and corrective services to large industrial mining and manufacturing facilities. Predictive and corrective maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, electric motor testing, laser alignments, multi-plane balancing, multi-channel modal analysis, airborne ultrasound, ultrasonic thickness testing, and infrared thermography are employed in order to troubleshoot a multitude of problems encountered with electric motors and rotating machinery such as pumps, fans, gearboxes, grinders, conveyors, mixers, etc.

Assisted county engineers in various land and highway surveying projects. Required the use of land surveying equipment and knowledge of civil engineering techniques such as grade elevations, slopes, and land sectioning.

Internship at MEI over two summers required knowledge of the numerous steps involved in product design, development, and implementation. Worked directly with a Project Engineer on various projects within the foundry including electric arc furnace slag recycling and furnace dust transportation. The research performed touched on such things as product vendor communications, pollution permitting, economic appropriations requests, economic feasibility analysis, product design and modification, daily data gathering, and a general knowledge of corporate structure.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: five years of foreign language (German), recipient of numerous scholarships (Hunt, Robbe, 3M, and others).

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Vibration, Reliability