Engineering Engineer

Location:

Posted:

August 06, 2011

Robert J. Washnock

Royal Oak, MI 48073

Education:

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

MS Mechanical Engineering, 1984 GPA: 3.64

BS Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, 1983 GPA: 3.26

St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA

BA Mathematics, 1983 GPA: 3.24

(dual degree program with Penn State)

Work Experience:

1997 to present,

Michigan Scientific Corporation, Milford, MI.

Experienced with many aspects of project administration and management including sales,

budgetary estimates, quotes, technical consultation, engineering proposals, application

engineering and service calls. Managed, coordinated, and technically participated in various

engineering projects including root cause analysis, machine and transducer design and testing,

and new product development. Supervised engineers and technicians working on new product

development and measurement engineering projects. Per request of company President advise

about hiring new employees and the dissemination of raises and bonuses. Authored and edited

numerous engineering documents, reports, and product literature. Authored a series of technical

papers and a basic mechanical vibrations reference guide. Prepared and conducted in-house

technical training seminars about transducer design and operation, signal conditioning, data

acquisition and time/frequency analysis that includes an 84-page companion guide of lecture

notes. Conducted numerous measurement project setups, data acquisitions (both lab and in the

field), and analyses. Designed strain gaged based transducers and transducer calibration

fixtures. Engineering projects are primarily automotive related but also include experience with

clients in the military, agriculture, and manufacturing equipment areas.

1985 to 1996,

General Motors Corporation, Milford, MI.

Senior Project Engineer at the GM Milford Proving Ground. Designed and adapted transducers

to measure vehicle loads. Developed and implemented key measurement methodologies for

road load data acquisition in many automatic transmission root cause analysis projects.

Considerable experience with setting up and using data acquisition instrumentation. Measured,

recorded, and analyzed vehicle parameters with emphasis on suspension components and

powertrains. Produced multi-axial servo-hydraulic actuated laboratory tests to assess vehicle

structure durability. Responsibilities included establishing test requirements, road load data

acquisition, data processing and analysis, test fixture design, laboratory to road correlation, and

documentation of results. Authored numerous engineering reports.

Software Experience: W ord, Excel, DADiSP, AUTOCAD, MegaDAC-TCS, Algor FEM.