Joe Anago

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U.S. Citizen: 214-***-****). Willing To Relocate. acgimm@r.postjobfree.com

Material Processing engineer, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Welding, Fatigue & Failure analysis engineer.

Executive Summary:

Ph. D Candidate with over 20 years’ of experience in failure and fatigue analysis, mechanical

design, welding, materials testing, destructive and non destructive material characterization,

control, quality inspection, and numerical modeling. Self motivated engineer with strong

background in mechanical design, material science .fracture, fatigue and stress analysis.

Extensive experience in laser welding, laser cladding/rapid prototyping, laser heat treatment,

and abrasive water jet materials processing.

Experience in mechanical testing and correlation of destructive and non destructive material

characterization of metal, ceramic and polymer materials.

Highly proficient in finite element analysis of heat transfer, solid mechanics, stress analysis, and

fluid mechanics by using ANSYS and FLUENT

Education

Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Expected

graduation Date: June 2014.

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; December 1983.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Kaduna Polytechnic, Nigeria; June 1976

Technical Skills

Additive Manufacturing and Material Processing: Electron Beam Melting (EBM), arc welding

(GTAW and GMAW), laser welding, laser cladding, prototyping, and laser heat treatment.

Mechanical Testing: shear tensile, hardiness, fatigue, bending, torsion, impact testing.

Microstructural Characterization: Structure – Property Interpretation, OM, SEM, EDX,

Profilometry System for Fractography, Familiar with LXRD for Residual Stress Measurement.

Lasers and Robots Operation: IPG Fiber and Coherent direct diode lasers, KUKA 6 axis robot and

CNC programming manufacturing machines.

Monitoring and Control: Infrared camera, CCD camera, and a green laser as an illumination

source for weld monitoring

Mechanical Design: Extensive use of AutoCAD software, Pro/E and SolidWorks software

Numerical Modelling: Heat Transfer, Fatigue, Residual Stress, and Fluid Mechanics by using

ANSYS and FLUENT.

Proficient in Computer Applications Software.

Visual Oriented Languages: LABVIEW, MATLAB.

Selected Graduate Course Work:

Advance Solid Mechanics; Theory of Plates and Shells; Energy Methods in Applied Mechanics;

Theory of Fatigue Design; Advance Fracture Mechanics; Optimized Mechanical Design;

Conductive Heat Transfer; Viscous Flow; Advance Vibration; Advance Mechanical Behavior of

Materials; Thermal Stress; Advance Dynamics of Structural Stability; Failure Analysis; Finite

Element Method; Advance Composite Materials; Engineering Management; Advance Steel

Design; Statistical Quality Control and Engineering Reliability.

Professional Experience

Dallas Independent School District (1995 2013)

Engineering Design, Analysis, Simulations, Maintenance and worked on Projects

Dallas County Community Colleges District (1991 2003)

Taught Ordinary Differential Equations and Linear Algebra

Paul Quinn College (1990 – 1994)

Assistant Professor of Engineering & Program Director for Texas Pre freshman

Engineering Program (TexPREP) – TexPREP was funded By NSF; DOE; NASA; and Texas

Higher Education Coordinating Board. Taught undergraduate engineering courses.

Mobil Lube Express (Mobil Oil Corporation), Dallas, Texas

Engineering Manager (1986 – 1990)

Supervised six stores.

Louisiana Tech University

Research Engineer (1984 !986)

Worked on cryogenic effect on materials. This was a contract awarded to Louisiana

Tech University by the U.S Navy.

The Polytechnic of Sokoto State, Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria

Head of Mechanical Engineering (1976 1981)

Taught engineering courses.

Publications

Joe Anago; Fanrong Kong; Blair Carlson(General Motors);Radovan Kovacevic; A Comprehensive

Model for Predicting Fatigue Life of Laser welded Lap Joint of Galvanized High Strength Steel as

a Function of Residual Stresses, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and

Exposition, Vol 3: Design, Materials and Manufacturing, Parts A,B,C. Houston,Texas, November

9 15,2012. Conference Sponsor: ASME.ISBN:978-*-****-**** 6.

Joe Anago; Fanrong Kong; Blair Carlson(General Motors);Radovan Kovacevic; FE Based Fatigue

Life Prediction of Laser Welded Lap Joint of DP980 Steels Under Constant Amplitude Loading

Mode. 2014 Sheet Metal Welding Conference (SMWC XVI),Livonia, Michigan on Oct 22 24,2014.

Professional Affiliation

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

References

Furnished upon request.

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