Injection Molding Design
Resume:
Ryan M. Brodeur
** ***** **** ****, *******, MA *1002
********@*******.*****.***
Summary Statement:
To gain employment with a company where my leadership experience, communication skills, and technical knowledge,
especially in the area of mathematics and chemical engineering, can be used effectively .
University of Massachusetts – Amherst, MA May 2010 (Expected)
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering GPA 3.4
Keene State College – Keene, NH May 2008
GPA 3.8
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Physics
Relevant Course Work:
Polymer Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Electronics, Optics and Electricity, Classical Mechanics,
Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Reactor Design, Process Control, Process Design,
Separation Design, Advanced Math Modeling, Applied Statistics, Linear Algebra
Computer Skills:
Maple 13, MathCad, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Aspen Plus, and Java Programming
Lab Experience:
Chemical Engineering Lab – Capstone Experience Fall 2009, Spring 2010
• Polymer Injection Molding and Extrusion Molding, Ion Exchange, Membrane Separation by Permeation, PH
Control, and Polymerization Kinetics
Additional Lab Experience: Analytical Chemistry, Electronics, Organic Chemistry, Physics (1-3), Physical Chemistry
Work Experience:
FujiFilm Dimatix, Engineering internship, Lebanon, NH May 2008 – Aug. 2008
• Worked with a group of eight engineers and effectively communicated with a team to accomplish project goals.
• Assisted in developing new web-based and offsite training techniques for customers and internal employees.
• Ran tests on fluid viscosity curves of different inks, such as UV curable and polymeric inks, and replicated
customer’s product problems and developed solutions.
• Improved the company’s technology for training implementation, saving the company and technical support
group time and allowing customers and employees the ability to train offsite.
Projects:
Injection Molding, UMass Amherst Fall 2009
• Produced high density polyethylene single gated “dog boned shaped” specimens at certain temperatures and
pressures with an injection molding machine to gather instron results.
• Analyzed instron data and created plots of stress vs. strain curves; additional data was collected to find
optimal values of temperature and pressure to give the highest tensile strength dog bone.
• Improved the existing design procedure by updating the lab manual with how to control variables effectively.
• Presented results using PowerPoint to professors and students on how maximum tensile strength was
affected by temperature, pressure, necking, branching, crystallinity, and other conditions of the polymer.
• Formed recommendations for future lab groups to further improve the design by controlling other design
variables such as the cooling rate of the polymer to increase or decrease crystallinity.
Process Design of Bio-oil refinery, UMass Amherst Fall 2009
• Conceptual design of a bio-oil plant to convert bio-oil into gasoline, alcohols, and hydrocarbons on a team of four.
• Designed multiple reactors to convert the bio-oil into products along with separators to separate the bio-oil with a
liquid-liquid extractor into an organic phase and aqueous phase.
• Determined economics of the profitability of the plant on a Brownfield site including utilities, hydrogen
generation, compressor costs, reactor costs, separator costs, catalysts, and installation costs of equipment.
• Created flow sheets with alternatives of the overall process design and sized the reactors to determine inputs and
outputs of flow rates to the plant. Designed a recycle network, heat exchanger network, and hydrogen generation.
• Carried out in a series of memorandums by the team and evaluated by an expert in bio-oil refineries.
• Used a hierarchical approach for the design, going from input information (Level 0) to hazops analysis (Level 8).
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