Mechanical Engineering Engineer

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Iman Soltani Bozchalooi

University of Ottawa, Department of Mechanical Engineering

*** *****-*******, **** ****, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5

Tel: 613-***-**** (cell), 613-***-**** ext.6404 (work)

Email: abpptd@r.postjobfree.com

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~isoltani

Education

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering, 2005-2007

Bearing vibration and oil debris signal enhancement for machinery

condition monitoring, supervised by Dr. Ming Liang

GPA: A+ (9.83/10)

Amir-kabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering 1998-2003

Design of a reciprocating, multi-stage, oil-free, air compressor

(30atm, 2 m3/min), (grade: 19.5/20) supervised by Dr. Mohsen

Rezaeian

Nominations, Awards and Scholarships

Nominated for the Commission on Graduate Studies in the Sciences Prize

for outstanding master's thesis (awarded to only one thesis each year among

all the disciplines), 2007.

International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,

Canada, 2007-2011 (declined).

Nominated for Aali-Nasab foundation prize for the best bachelor s thesis in

the country, Iran, 2003.

National Higher Education Exam (Iran-1998)

Ranked 370 among over 1,000,000 students

Patents

[P.2] Ming Liang and Iman Soltani Bozchalooi, Parameter independent detection of

rotating machinery faults with impulsive vibration characteristics, patent

pending, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Application No.

61/119,954, filed Dec 2008.

[P.1] Ming Liang, Tet Hin Yeap, Xianfeng Fan and Iman Soltani Bozchalooi,

Method to extract target signals of a known type from raw data containing an

unknown number of target signals, interference, and noise, patent pending,

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Application No.

12/235,008 and Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), filed Sept 2008.

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Publications

Journal Publications

[J.7] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Application of Teager Energy Operator for

the detection of gear tooth fatigue cracks, in preparation.

[J.6] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Parameter-free bearing fault detection

based on maximum likelihood estimation and differentiation, Measurement

Science and Technology, 20 (2009) 065102 (14pp).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/20/6/065102

[J.5] M. Liang and I. Soltani Bozchalooi, A combined amplitude and frequency

demodulation approach to bearing fault detection, submitted to Mechanical

Systems and Signal Processing, under review.

[J.4] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, In-line identification of oil debris signals:

an adaptive subband filtering approach, submitted to Measurement Science and

Technology.

[J.3] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, A Joint Resonance Frequency Estimation

and In-Band Noise Reduction Method for Enhancing the Detectability of

Bearing Fault Signals, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 22 (4), 915-

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933, 2008. Ranked 11 among the Top 25 Hottest Articles of Mechanical

Systems and Signal Processing (January 2008-March 2008).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2007.10.006

[J.2] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, A Smoothness Index Guided Approach to

Wavelet Parameter Selection in Signal De-Noising and Fault Detection, Journal

of Sound and Vibration, 308(1-2), 246-267, 2007.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2007.07.038

[J.1] A. Ghaffari, H. Abdollahi, M.R.Khoshayand, I.Soltani Bozchalooi, A.Dadgar

and M.Rafiee-Tehrani, Performance Comparison of Neural Network Training

Algorithms in Modeling of Bimodal Drug Delivery, International Journal of

Pharmaceutics, 327(1-2), 126-138, 2006.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2006.07.056

Refereed Conference Publications

[C.7] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Differentiation as a means to assist on-line

bearing fault detection, submitted for presentation at the 6th International

Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2009,

Milan, Italy, July 2-5, 2009.

[C.6] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Early detection of bearing faults based on

maximum likelihood estimation, submitted for presentation at the 8th

International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety,

ICRMS 2009, Chengdu, China, July 21-25, 2009.

[C.5] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Oil Debris Signal Analysis Based on

Empirical Mode Decomposition for Machinery Condition Monitoring, accepted

for presentation at 2009 IEEE American Control Society Conference, St. Louis,

Missouri, June 10-12.

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[C.4] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Vibration and Electrical Interference

Removal for Improved Bearing Fault Diagnosis, proceedings of the

Mechatronics 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 23-25, 2008.

[C.3] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Enhancement of the Signals Collected by

Oil Debris Sensors, proceedings of the 2008 IEEE American Control Society

Conference, Seattle June 11-13, 2008, 2810 2815.

http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4547420/4586444/04586919.pdf?tp=&arnu

mber=4586919&isnumber=4586444

[C.2] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Identification of High SNR Frequency

Band for Bearing Fault Signature Enhancement, proceedings of the 14th IEEE

International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in

Practice,(M2VIP2007), Xiamen, China, 4-6 Dec, 2007, 39-43.

http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=4430703&arnumber=

4430711&count=57&index=7

[C.1] I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, A Combined Spectral Subtraction and

Wavelet De-Noising Method for Bearing Fault Detection, proceedings of the

2007 IEEE American Control Society Conference, New York July 11-13, 2007,

2533-2538.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4282467

Research Engineer at the University of Ottawa (June 2007-Aug 2009)

Research Engineer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of

Ottawa, June 2007-Aug 2009

Algorithm design and embedded system implementation of a signal

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enhancement technique for oil-debris detection.

Estimation of mass and number of concurrently moving metallic particles

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in oil.

Enhancement of the signals measured from oil-debris sensors subject to

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highly non-stationary vibrations.

Machinery condition monitoring based on vibration signal analysis.

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Application of Chaos theory to machinery component fault severity

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estimation.

Application of empirical mode decomposition to machinery fault detection.

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Biomedical signal processing.

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Teaching and Research Experiences (Sept 2005-Present)

Research Engineer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of

Ottawa, June 2007-present

Research Assistant, Manufacturing Systems and Machine Health (MSMH) Lab,

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, September 2005-

June 2007

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Teaching Assistant, Advanced Strength of Materials Course, University of

Ottawa, Winter 2007

Teaching Assistant, Industrial Planning Course, University of Ottawa, Fall 2006

Teaching Assistant, Advanced Strength of Materials Course, University of

Ottawa, Winter 2006

Teaching Assistant, Industrial Planning Course, University of Ottawa, Fall 2005

Peer Reviewing

IEEE American Control Society Conference, St. Louis, June 10-12, 2009.

Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2008.

Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2008.

IEEE American Control Society Conference, New York July 11-13, 2007.

Skills

Computer Skills: MATLAB, LABVIEW, MPLAB IDE, C++, SOLID WORKS,

ANSYS, VISUAL BASIC, AUTOCAD, ADAMS.

Embedded Microprocessor programming, dsPIC Microchip.

Extracurricular: Guitar (Flamenco), Photography, Cooking (Chinese, Thai,

Persian, Turkish), Carpentry, Soccer, Tennis.

References

Dr. Ming Liang

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

University of Ottawa

Tel: 613-***-**** ext. 6269

Email: abpptd@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Martin Bouchard

Associate Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering,

University of Ottawa

Tel: 613-***-**** ext. 6190

Email: abpptd@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Tet Hin Yeap

Associate Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering,

University of Ottawa

Tel: 613-***-**** ext. 6219

Email: abpptd@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Dan Necsulescu

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

University of Ottawa

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Tel: 613-***-**** ext. 6270

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Dr. Mohammad H.Ghaffari-Saadat

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Amir-kabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)

Tel: +98-21-645*-****

Email: abpptd@r.postjobfree.com

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