Mechanical Engineering Assistant

FANGJUN SHU, PH.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Pittsburgh

Home address: Work address:

**** ********** **, ***. ***, Center for Advanced Research and

Pittsburgh, PA 15232 Development of Medical Devices

E-mail: *******@*****.*** 700 Technology Dr. Suit 4220

Phone: 832-***-**** Pittsburgh, PA 15219

ABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE:

Experience of advanced flow diagnostic techniques (experimental fluid mechanics) including PIV

(particle image velocimetry), LDA (laser Doppler anemometry), PDA (phase Doppler anemometry) and

PLIF (planer laser induced fluorescence)

Knowledge of advanced fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, statistics

and engineering mathematics

Extensive experience in digital signal/image processing

Knowledge of CFD (computational fluid dynamics); experience of using FLUENT

Knowledge of computational solid mechanics (finite element method); experience of using ANSYS

Knowledge of advanced optical metrology, experience in laser assisted diagnosis

Experience in mechanical/medical device design, test and innovation

Experience in CAD software including SolidWorks, Auto CAD and Iron CAD

Experience of software programming in Visual C++, JAVA, FORTRAN and MATLAB

Ability to use engineering expertise to define and solve problems

Experience of leading team project

Solid oral and written communication skills (English and Chinese)

EDUCATION:

Institute Major GPA Degree/Date

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN ME, fluid mechanics (experimental) 4.0 Ph.D / Dec. 2005

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS ME, design (composite, FEM) 4.0 N/A

University of Science and Technology of China ME, solid mechanics, optical metrology 3.8 M.E. / Jul. 2000

University of Science and Technology of China ME, fluid mechanics (computational) 3.56 B.S. / Jul. 1997

EXPERIENCE:

1/06 present Postdoc Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Prototype and experimental setup design use SolidWorks

Investigation of flow characteristics in pulsatile rotary blood pump using advanced flow visualization

(LIF, PIV, Tracer Particle visualization) techniques; optimization of blood pump design to minimize

hemolysis and thrombogenesis based on flow visualization results

Evaluation of Taylor vortices in a Pediatric Ventricular Assistant Device (PVAD) using a micro-scale

PIV system built by myself; data processing using programs written in Visual C++ and MATLAB

Digital image and signal processing for various purposes including red blood cell recognition, cell

counting, particle image noise reduction, and flow pattern recognition.

Use of statistical and analytical methods to analyze the efficiency and reliability of VADs

Provided advice/assistance to graduate students in their projects

1/01 12/05 Research Assistant (PhD student), Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Water loop and spray control system design (Auto CAD) and manufacture

Passive control of a water jet using nozzles of various geometries to modify the mixing and turbulence

characteristics

Nozzles and spray atomizers design using Auto CAD and Iron CAD

Measurement and evaluation of jet performance and spray efficiency using flow measurement techniques

(PIV, PDA, LDV and PLIF)

Statistical/uncertainty analysis using software developed in Visual C++ and MATLAB

Digital image process of PIV and LIF images

Flow performance evaluation in a control valve

Lead of a small research group for a short summer project (design and evaluating performance of an air

assisted spray atomizer)

8/00 12/00 Research Assistant (PhD student), Mechanical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

Finite element modeling and analysis of composite material using ANSYS

Development of new finite element method applicable to composite materials using Visual C++, results

compared with ANSYS simulations

Composite material performance measurement

9/97 6/00 Research Assistant (Master s student), Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and

Technology of China, Hefei, China

Experimental investigation of deformation, stress/strain and vibration of solid structures

Design, assembly and testing of an Orthogonal Two-Way Holographic Interferometer

Design, assembly and testing of a Real Time Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometer (ESPI)

Digital image processing to analyze images, e.g. use of spin filter and fractional Fourier transform

method to reduce noise in fringe pattern; use of FFT based method to extract strain/stress information from

ESPI images.

Development of an accurate numerical method to perform Fast Fractional Fourier Transform used in

fringe pattern process and achieved good performance

Teaching assistant for several courses

10/94 - 9/97 Research Assistant (Undergraduate student), Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Science

and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Wellbore pressure analysis in circular and infinite dual-porous and composite reservoirs using numerical

methods based upon the Laplace transform; the method is now widely used in Chinese oil fields

In charge of the computational part of a petroleum well pressure test software WTES 3.0

HONORS:

Work of our group was reported in Voice of America (VOA), October 3, 2006

Reported in MEMO, the School of Mechanical Engineering magazine at Purdue University, 2005

Frederick A. Environmental Award, Purdue University, August 2004

Guang-Hua Educational Scholarship, USTC, 1998-1999

Excellent Student Scholarship of USTC, 1995-1996 and 1994-1995

Member of American Physical Society

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

1. S. Vandenberghe, F. Shu, B. Paden and J. Antaki, Fluid Dynamic Evaluation of Pulsatile Rotary Blood

Pump, International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps (ISRBP) 14th congress, Aug. 31-Sep. 2 2006,

Leuven, Belgium

2. F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak and P. E. Sojka, Evolution of vertical structures in indeterminate origin nozzle jets,

Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Process, 2006 ( in press)

3. F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak, P. E. Sojka, Indeterminate Origin Nozzles to Control Jet Structure, Journal of

Turbulence, vol. 6, No. 26 (2005), pp. 1-18

4. F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak, P. E. Sojka, Visualization of Streamwise Vortex Pairs in an Indeterminate Origin

(IO) Nozzle Jet, Journal of Visualization, Vol.8, No. 3 (2005), pp. 195

F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak, P. E. Sojka, Indeterminate Origin Nozzles to Control Jets, transactions of 11th

5.

International Symposium on Flow Visualization, Aug. 8-12, 2004, Notre Dame, IN

6. M. W. Plesniak, F. Shu, P. E. Sojka, S. H. Frankel, Flow Control and Design of Environmentally Benign

Spray Systems, (invited paper) Technology for a Sustainable Environment (TSE) session, Annual

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2002 Conference, November 3 - 8,2002, Indianapolis,

IN

F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak, P. E. Sojka, Indeterminate Origin Nozzles to Control Jets, 56th DFD conference

7.

of the American Physics Society, Nov. 2003, Meadowlands, NJ

8. F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak, P. E. Sojka, Control of an Impinging Jet Emanating from a Nozzle of

Indeterminate Origin, 55th DFD conference of the American Physics Society, Nov. 2002, Dallas, TX

9. F. Shu, M. W. Plesniak, P. E. Sojka, Structure of Impinging Jet Issuing from a Nozzle of Indeterminate

Origin with Applications to Improving Transfer Efficiency for Spray Systems, 2002 Painting Technology

Workshop (PTW2002), Lexington, KY, June, 2002

10. F. Shu, C. Feng, S. He, B. Xu, The Study of 3D Object s Profile Detection Technology, Journal of

Experimental Mechanics (China), Vol. 15, No. 2, June, 2000

K. Qian, F. Shu, X. Wu, Determination of the Best Phase Step of the Carr Algorithm in Phase Shifting

11.

Interferometry, Measurement Science and Technology, 11 No. 8 (August 200*-****-****

12. H. Miao, F. Shu, X. Wu, A Non-linear Filtering Method Based on Wavelet Analysis and Its Application

to Speckle Fringe Pattern, Journal of Experimental Mechanics, vol. 14, No. 3, Sep. 1999

13. D. Lu, X. Kong, F. Shu, Wellbore Transient Pressure Behavier of Composite Dual-Porosity in the Kinds

of Outside Boundary, Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. A vol. B No. 2, P155

REFERENCES:

Dr. James F. Antaki (Postdoc Advisor)

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Email: ******@******.***.*** Tel: 412-***-****

Dr. Michael W. Plesnial (PhD Advisor)

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Purdue University and Polytechnics University

Email: ********@******.***.******.*** or ********@****.*** Tel: 718-***-****

Dr. Paul E. Sojka (PhD Co. Advisor)

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Purdue University

Email: *****@******.***.******.*** Tel: 765-***-****

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