Project Mechanical

Mario Waldorff Gomes

585-***-**** (work) mwgeme@rit.edu2189 Gleason Hall

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Rochester, NY 14623

EDUCATION:

Jan. 2005 PhD Cornell University, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Committee: Andy Ruina(adviser), Steven Strogatz, John Hermanson, Hod Lipson

Thesis: Collisionles body locomotion models and physically based homotopy

methods for finding periodic motions in high degree of freedom models

Honors: H.D. Block Teaching award, NSF IGERT fellowship, EGSA Poster Prize

June 1997 MsEng Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Wayne Book(adviser)

Thesis: An Examination of Control Algorithms for a Dissipative Passive Haptic Interface

Honors: Woodruff Fellowship, National Science Foundation Honorable Mention

May 1995 BsE Cornell University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Honors: John McMullen Dean's Scholarship, Dean's List, Tau Beta Pi

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology(Department of Mechanical

Engineering): Fall 2009-

Present

Statics (2 quarters)

Mechanics of Materials (2 quarters)

Dynamics (2 quarters)

Worked with John Wellin to develop a new course at RIT \Special Topics: Wind Turbine

Engineering"

Summer 2011

Lecturer, Arizona State University(Department of Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering): Fall

2006-Spring

2009

Courses created and taught

MAE469(2semesters:created course) - Fundamentals of Renewable Energy, lecture and 3

project

course(wind, biofuel, solar). Students either design and build blades and hub for 1m dia.

wind

turbine, produce ethanol and model and modify an internal combustion engine to run

effeciently on

ethanol, design a cooling system for a model concentrating PV system) I designed and

built the engine

dynomometer which is used for other courses besides this one. I also designed the blade

production

system for e cient, accurate, minimal-cost blade production.

MAE488(2semesters) - Senior Design for Mechanical Engineers(Part I). Created design

project where

students designed and built a 50% roundtrip e cient regenerative braking system for a

bicycle.

MAE489 - Senior Design for Mechanical Engineers(Part II).

MAE214(3semesters:created course materials) - Computer Aided Design I (Engineering

drawing prac-

tice, 3D visualization, Solidworks). Created all new course material which also involved

a final student

design project (clocks, and locks. Trained others to teach course from provided

materials.

MAE100(2semesters:lead instructor) - Introduction to Engineering. Large(>150students)

class with

multiple instructors. Basic engineering fundamentals, designed weekly introduction to

programming

using MATLAB lab and trained TA's, created and organized final course project.

MAE384 - Numerical Methods for Engineers. Numerical routines, error, and convergence for

rootfind-

ing, numerical integration of ODEs, curve fitting, linear algebra, numerical and

analytical solution of

PDE's.

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MAE442 - Mechanical Systems Design. Design of clutches, brakes, transmissions, motor-load

match-

ing, design of PID control systems, use of equations of motion for design of nonlinear

dynamical

systems.SES100 - Introduction to Exploration/Engineering.

Designed and taught programming

laboratory,

and desgined and organized the course aerial photography final project.

Service:

Supervised MAE machine shop to transform it into the undergraduate teaching shop to

support the

MAE488/489 design/build projects. Conducted shop scheduling, budgeting, machine

exchanges, and

aided in hiring of permanent shop supervisor.

Instructor, Wells College(Department of Mathematics): Spring 2006

Courses taught: Math105(Contemporary Math) and Math300(Probability and Statistics II)

Math105 - Problem solving, number systems, logic, tiling, scalings, and geometry.

Math300 - Calculus based probability: covering densities and cumulative distributions of

discrete and

continuous random variables, properties of expectation and variance, and joint

distributions.

STUDENTS at RIT:

Grad: Masters of Science

Kelsey McConnaghy :

Spring 2011-Present - Computer models of hydro-kite power generating

system

Undergraduate: CO-OP

Jason Hang, Coop student: Summer 2010

- Windmill blade prototyping method, boot camp

Undergraduate: Weekly

Christopher Freeman:

Winter 2010-Present

- Windmill blade prototyping method

Felix Liu:

Fall 2010-Present - Windmill blade prototyping method

Scott Hambleton: Spring 2010 - Collisionless rimless wheel device

Spencer Crandell: Winter 2010 - Windmill blade prototyping method

Trevor Crandell: Winter 2010 - Windmill blade prototyping method

Andrei Stihi: Winter 2010 - Windmill blade prototyping method

Alexander Turner: Fall 2009 - Winter 2009 - Kite wind energy computer models

SERVICE at RIT:

Engineering Science Core Curriculum Workgroup:

Fall 2009-Present

Multidisciplinary Senior Design Project Planning Group:

Summer 2011-Present

Design and Product Development Workgroup:

Spring 2011-Present

Mechanical Engineering Search Committee:

Fall 2011-Present

TEDxRIT seminar series: initiated 2009-2010, projected restart in 2012

Imagine RIT participant: spring 2011

Rochester Museum and Science Center presenter and collaborator: 2010-Present

PAPERS

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INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Engineer, O'Brien and Gere Manufacturing - Syracuse, NY: August 1998{May 1999

Concept and Detailed Mechanical design and project management for custom furnaces,

loaders, and

other machinery

Designed, programmed, and performed start-up of electrical controllers for furnaces and

machinery

Wrote operation manuals for control systems

Trained others in the operation of the furnaces and machinery

Control System Engineer, Atlantic Orient Corporation - Norwich, VT: August 1997{May 1998

Coordinated the construction of switchgear for controlling the operation of a 15m/50kW

Wind Turbine

Developed and evaluated design changes (PLC to component level)

Repaired and improved controllers in the field

Built, and trained new staff to build and wire the control enclosures

PREVIOUS MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Projects Supervised:

Senior Honor's thesis for Eric Conti, Regenerative Braking System for a Formula SAE

Hybrid RaceCar-Fall 2008

Primary Mentor for Biomedical Senior Capstone project: Mazen Odish, Abbey Jahnke, Michael

Cronin: Patient Transfer Device

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Fall 2008-Spring 2009

Primary Mentor for Biomedical Senior Capstone project: Justin Lovelace, Joe German:

Malawi

Foldable Wheelchair Project

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Fall 2008-Spring 2009

Design, and Fabrication of an Inexpensive Infant Breathing Monitor - Philip Walker - Fall

2008-Spring

2009, FURI funded project

Design, Instrumentation, and Construction of a Collisionless Rimless Wheel - Brent Bowers

and Philip

walker - Spring 2008 FURI funded project

Design, Debugging, and Repair of an Electrical Controller and algorithm for a powered

walker - Oren

Yeshua and Josh Silberman - Spring 2001 - Spring 2003

Rigid body dynamic computer simulation of a powered walker - Rodney King - Spring 1999

Motor Selection for Powered Walker- Yan Yevmenenko - Spring 1999

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