DIANA DASCALESCU

Current address: URH Room *** Sherman Hall 909 S. Fifth Street, 61820 Champaign, Illinois, USA tel: 217-***-****

Permanent address: 49 square Saint-Germain, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France tel: (**-**-*-**-**-**-**

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PROFILE

Dynamic and rigorous engineer with strong scientific, technical and multicultural background.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA, Aug. 2007

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, December 2008 Dec. 2008

Thesis research: Tribology of advanced material systems for compressor

applications

Current GPA: 4.0/4.0

ISMEP (Institut Sup rieur de M canique de Paris), SUPMECA, top-seeded French France, Sep.

Engineering School with focus on Mechanical Engineering. 2005 Dec. 2008

Graduate in Engineering Diploma, June 2007

Engineer Diploma, December 2008

1st year : 3rd out of about 130 students; 2nd year: 1st out of 127 students

Classes Pr paratoires aux Grandes coles, option physics and chemistry France, Sep.

Very intensive multidisciplinary program for entering the best French Engineering Schools 2003 Jul. 2005

International high school degree, German section, highest honors France, Jul. 2003

Diversified curriculum content

Solid background in the main mechanical engineering areas: general and vibration mechanics, solid

mechanics, fracture mechanisms, structure mechanics, surface mechanics, finite elements, manufacturing

processes, material science, mechanical design, fluid mechanics, thermal transfers, acoustics, automation

Background in new cutting-edge areas: MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems), Nanomanufacturing

Industrial management, quality, logistics, performance assessment, marketing, project management,

business management, strategy and innovation, finance

EXPERIENCE

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, teaching an research assistant USA, Aug. 2007

Fall 2007: teaching assistant for the class Model and Analysis of Dynamic systems Dec. 2008

Since spring 2008: research assistant in the Microtribodynamics group (plan, perform

and analyze experiments; reports; presentations; one paper in preparation)

Volkswagen, intern, restructuring of a fabrication process Germany,

Analyzed the performance of the process (machine efficiency, fabrication costs ) Wolfsburg

Designed and compared alternative fabrication processes (cost, machine tools) Mar. 2007 Aug.

Proposed a new organization of the fabrication process including capital investment 2007

(had to justify 2 million Euros budget with subsequent possible savings)

Snecma (engines for aeronautic industry), division of Safran, intern France, Jan.

Synthesized technical specifications for external equipment and service providers of Feb. 2006

several business units into one common document (including necessary updates)

Organized and moderated meetings with the future users of the document

Proposed and helped find compromises

University of Poitiers, intern France, summer

Modeled and optimized an electrostatic system for material separation 2001 and 2004

SKILLS AND LEADERSHIP

Computer skills: C, JAVA, Matlab, Mapple, Catia, Ansys, Adams, Abaqus, Nastran

Fluent in French, German, English and Romanian; conversational Spanish

2006: President of the Junior Enterprise of Supm ca (costumer relations, quotes, hiring, project

management)

Group leader in several class projects

Member of the Club der Ehemaligen in Germany, an organization for students that have been selected

during high school for their high potential and that continue to meet regularly, mainly during summer

courses organized by the members (theater, dance, science, philosophy, economy, ).

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