Mechanical Engineer Engineering

Changsong Luo

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OBJECTIVE

A full-time Mechanical Engineer position related to Finite Element

Analysis, thermal-mechanical modeling and failure prediction of advanced

materials.

QUALIFICATIONS

- An innovative problem solver with more than five years experience in

finite element analysis (FEA)

- Proficiency in FEA code development, extensive experience in FEA

software (Abaqus, HyperMesh)

- Expertise in thermal-mechanical damage modeling for composites and in

fluid structure interaction

- Solid background in solid mechanics, contact analysis, non-linear

analysis, fracture mechanics, thermal and fluid science; strong

analytical skills; familiar with finite volume and finite difference

methods

- Great communication skills, excellent organization and time management

capability, quick learner

EDUCATION

M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, 2006 University at

Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY

Advanced Certificate in Computational Science, 2006 University at

Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY

B.S. - Applied Mechanics, 2002 University of Science and

Technology of China, Hefei, China

EXPERIENCE

Global Engineering and Materials, Inc., Princeton, NJ

Senior Mechanical Engineer 11/2008 -

Present

- Responsible for development of a coupled FEA and CFD toolkit for fire-

structure interaction, Abaqus fire interface simulator toolkit

(AFIST); Responsible for tool development, integration and validation

- Developed an hybrid (implicit/explicit) approach for structure

analysis; developed a fire-structure two-way coupling scheme via

ABAQUS UEL; integrated a non-linear composite material damage model;

applied cohesive elements and surface based cohesive behavior for

contact analysis

- Work also includes FEA model generation for an large-scale ship ramp

system, mode analysis and dynamic analysis

Engineering Technical Intern

06/2008 - 08/2008

- Implementation and validation of the thermal decomposition model for

composite materials in UMAT

- Improved metallic fatigue/fracture prediction toolkit GUI; Enhanced

model generation Python toolkit

- Work also included fatigue damage analysis of structural GFRP

composite materials

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Graduate Research Assistant

05/2003 - 10/2008

- Developed a thermo-mechanical damage model (TMDM) for composite

structures in fire environment

- Developed a coupling scheme for fire-structure interaction,

investigated flame spread phenomena

- Consulted for Global Engineering and Materials, Inc. on fluid-

structure simulations, and for Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) on rocket

composite shell response to fire environments

Guest Lecturer for "Combustion" graduate level class

spring 2008

Teaching Assistant for "Fluid Mechanics" and "Engineering Materials Lab"

08/2002 - 05/2003

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages: FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, Matlab, MPI

Software Packages: ABAQUS/CAE, HyperMesh, LS-DYNA, ANSYS,

Tecplot, FDS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MS Windows

HONORS, AWARDS

GEM's Technical Achievement Award, Global Engineering and Materials,

Inc. (2009)

NSF Fellowship winner, 9th US National Congress on Computational

Mechanics (2007)

USTC Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)

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