Engineer Project

Siew Kan (Eric) Wan *** South *st Avenue

Highland Park, NJ 08904

E-mail: *********@*******.*** . Cell Phone: 917-***-****

EDUCATION

. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus.

Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering, July 2004.

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering(honors), May 2002.

Quality Management System Certificate (Six Sigma), March 2010.

EXPERIENCE

. MAC Products, Kearny, NJ

Mechanical Design and Project Engineer

April 2007 - Present

> Design cantilever assemblies for railway Overhead Catenary System

(OCS). Includes balance weight auto tensioning systems, fixed

terminations, mid-point anchors, crossovers, pull-offs, half

tension airbreak, headspans, hangers, jumpers, etc.

> Design pressurization and cooling plants for high pressure fluid

filled power transmission industry. Specializes in heat analysis as

well as hydraulic process system design, piping and

instrumentation.

> Design DC switchboards, switches and stinger system for electrified

transit industry.

. Continental Electric Motors, Newark/Marlboro, New Jersey

Consultant

April 2007 - Present

> Provide project management and technical support.

> Program CNC codes for automated parts machining.

Lead Mechanical Design and Project Engineer

August 2004-March 2007

> Manage over 30 projects annually worth over $4.5 million.

Responsibilities include defining/evaluating motor specifications,

prepare engineering submittals, coordinate with contractors,

overseeing production and scheduling.

> Design NEMA standard and custom AC induction electric motors up to

2500HP, speed from 360 to 3600RPM. Motor enclosure includes ODP, WP

I/II, and TEFC-XP.

> Perform heat transfer, stress-strain and vibration analysis to

increase frame capability using Finite Element Analysis and/or

Matlab programming.

> Perform in-house new motor testing and field motor troubleshooting.

> Improve motor production processes, diagnose and solve motor repair

issues.

> Successfully implemented specifications and testing for Navy Sealed

Insulation Certification.

> Maintain UL and quality control compliance.

> Customer technical support.

. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus.

Research Assistant

January 2002 - June 2004

> Program and simulate Monte Carlo radiation transfer and image

reconstruction.

> Design, setup and conduct experiments in optical imaging

research.

> Collaborate with Hamamatsu to conduct imaging experiments and

research.

> Collaborate with Lucent Technologies to develop micro-sensor based

on Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM)

Teaching Assistant (TA) September

2002 - June 2004

> Served as TA for Orbital Mechanics and Vibration/Controls courses,

Spring 2004.

> Served as TA for Thermodynamics and Vibration/Controls courses,

Fall 2003.

> Served as advisor for undergraduate senior project, "3-D

Electromechanics Translation Stage", Spring 2003.

> Served as TA for Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics courses, Fall

2002.

Engineering Tutor

August 2001 - May 2002

> Tutor variety of science and mathematics based courses under

Engineering Special Program.

UNDERGRADUATE SENIOR PROJECT

. Designed and built cordless roof nailer testbed for Stanley Bostitch,

Spring 2002.

AWARDS/ACTIVITIES

. President's List

. Dean's List

. Best Student Paper in Chinese Institute of

Engineers-USA Mini Convention on Bioinformatics

at Rutgers University, July 20, 2002.

. Chairperson of Science and Math Club.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint AutoCAD/Mechanical Desktop

ProEngineering/ProMechanica Matlab/Simulink

Fortran FEMlab

Ansys Maple

LabView CorelDraw/Photoshop

Solid Works Sigmaplot/Origin

Quickbooks Adobe Professional

PATENT

. Provisional Patent entitled, "E-wan electric motor" (Grant no:

60/297,626)

PUBLICATIONS

. Siew Kan Wan and Zhixiong Guo, "Correlative studies in optical

reflectance measurements of cerebral blood oxygenation," JQSRT, 2006,

vol. 98 (2), pg 189-201.

. Zhixiong Guo, Siew Kan Wan, David August, Jinpin Ying, S. M. Dunn and

J. L. Semmlow, "Optical imaging of breast tumor through temporal log-

slope difference mappings," Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2006,

vol. 36(2), pg 209-223.

. Siew Kan Wan and Zhixiong Guo, "Parametric study of monitoring

cerebral blood oxygenation using dual-wavelength optical reflectance

measurement," Radiative Transfer - IV (eds.: M. P. Menguc and N.

Selcuk), Begell House Inc., New York, June 20-25, 2004 pp. 283-292.

. Siew Kan Wan, Zhixiong Guo, Sunil Kumar, Janice Aber and Bruce A.

Garetz, "Noninvasive detection of inhomogeneity in a turbid medium",

JQSRT, 2004. vol. 84, no. 4, 493-500.

. Siew Kan Wan, Zhixiong Guo and Sunil Kumar, "Rapid Diagnosis of

Inhomogeneity in Turbid Media (2-D)," 2003 ASME IMECE Conference,

Washington D.C., November 15-21.

. Siew Kan Wan, Zhixiong Guo, "Detecting inhomogeneity in a turbid

medium", Proceedings of Eurotherm73, April 15-17, 2003, Mons, Belgium.

pp. 205-213.

. Siew Kan Wan and Zhixiong Guo, "Rapid Detection of Inhomogeneity in

Turbid Media (1-D)," 2003 29th Annual Northeast Bioengineering

Conference at NJIT, Newark, March 22-23.

. Zhixiong Guo, Siew Kan Wan, Kyunghan Kim and Chakravathi Kosaraju,

"Comparison between different forward models for light transport in

tissue", Asian Symposium on Biomedical Optics and Photomedicine, Oct

21-23, 2002 University Conference Hall, Hokkaido University Sapporo,

Japan.

. Zhixiong Guo, Siew Kan Wan, Kyunghan Kim and Chakravarthi Kosaraju,

"Comparing diffusion approximation with radiation transfer analysis

for light transport in tissue", Optical Review, 2003, vol. 10, no. 5,

pp. 415-421.

CONFERENCE ATTENDED/PRESENTED*

. 2003 ASME IMECE Conference, Washington D.C., November 15-21, 2003.*

. 29th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference at NJIT, Newark,

NJ, March 22-23, 2003.*

. Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA Annual Convention, "Weaving the Web

- Information Technology and Business Opportunities," Newark Airport

Marriott Hotel, NJ, October 19, 2002.

. Third Inter-institute Workshop on Diagnostic Optical Imaging and

Spectroscopy: The Clinical Adventure at Bethesda, MD, Sept 26-27,

2002.

. Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA Mini Convention on Bioinformatics

at Rutgers University, July 20, 2002.*

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