Mechanical Engineering Design

Cynthia Perreira

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Objective

To obtain a challenging and interesting summer internship in Mechanical Engineering

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Aug. 2002 – Present: Candidate for M.S. with thesis in May 2004 in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Design and Controls

Coursework in Progress: Mechatronics, Designing Open Engineering Systems

Coursework Completed: Linear Control Systems, Engineering Design, Numerical Methods

Graduate Research Assistant: Advisors Dr. Wayne J. Book (Intelligent Machine Dynamics Laboratory) and Dr. Chris Paredis (Systems Realization Laboratory). Currently creating a systematic method of determining whether hydraulic or electrical power is best for a given design problem.

Cumulative GPA: 3.66/4.0

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

Sept. 1998 – June 2002: Graduated with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Biomedical Engineering and Economics

Mechanical Engineering: Product Eng. Processes, Design & Manufacturing, Thermal Fluids, Dynamics & Modeling, Controls, Manufacturing Systems, Mechanics & Materials, Measurement & Instrumentation, Project Lab.

Biomedical Engineering: Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Genetics, Quantitative Physiology

Economics and Management: Applied Micro, Micro, Macro, Public, Health, Prob. & Stat, Engineering Management.

Other: Problem Solving using Java, Communicating in Cyberspace, Spanish IV.

Cumulative GPA: 4.3/5.0

Academic Projects

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Product Process Engineering) Cambridge, MA

Sept – Dec 2001: Designed a water-shooting remote control tank toy in a senior design class with a team of 15 people. Headed design of the turret subsystem including designing in SolidWorks and manufacturing the subsystem. Created product brochure for the industry and public presentation.

Insight Technology Londonderry, NH

Feb. – May 2001: Redesigned with two others a manufacturing system line that produces 1000 products a month. Reduced cost, line throughput time, Work-In-Progress and order lead time.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Design & Manufacturing I & II) Cambridge, MA

Feb – Dec. 2000: Designed and built a robot for competition. Designed and manufactured unique yo-yo in a team of eight people. Designed in SolidWorks, made molds using a milling machine and lathe, injection molded and assembled 50 yo-yo’s.

Work Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

June – Aug. 2001: Designed the structures & mechanisms subsystem for three different implementations of a satellite swarm consisting of one mother and twelve daughter satellites. Worked with students from MIT, Caltech and Stanford. Used ICEMaker (a Visual Basic Excel program designed at Caltech to share parameters as inputs and outputs), NetMeeting and DrawCraft (a SolidWorks add-on designed at Caltech to facilitate creating 3-D satellite models) to share and visualize different design implementations easily and quickly across long distances and many computers. Presented in DC to the NRO (the project sponsor) and industry executives, my portion of the design using PowerPoint. Participated in ICEMaker and DrawCraft design system demonstration.

Merck & Co. (Packaging Technology Department) West Point, PA

July – Aug 2000: Organized documentation, prepared samples and tracked progress of a contractor installing new piece of packaging line equipment to improve performance. Evaluated possible applications for new technology to measuring fill levels of sachets to lower costs. Tested and qualified tooling to support a new product launch.

Skills

Computer: Proficient in using MATLAB, Modelica and Dymola to model, simulate and solve engineering problems. Proficient in using SolidWorks and ProENGINEER for solid modeling. Capable of programming in Java, C, and html. Proficient in using Microsoft Office. Some experience with Adobe Photoshop.

Language: Conversant in Spanish.

Manufacturing: Proficient in machining, including writing machine language code and using milling machine, lathe and injection molding machine

Activities and Interests

Society of Women Engineers, Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, snowboarding, hiking, music

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