Mechanical Engineering Project

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Le' ResumeEmail: ********@*****.***

Phone: 217-766-5039Education

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, with High Honors

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Date: May 2011

GPA:3.92/4.0

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Expected Graduate Date: June 2013Research

Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory, MIT

September 2011-CurrentWorking on a project that recycles CO2 from natural gas combustion exhaust using ceramic membrane reactor.Designed and built the membrane reactor and the data acquisition system.Wrote the Matlab GUI program to manage data acquisition.

Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations Lab, UIUC

June 2010-May 2011Designed and built an experiment to test nonlinear energy sink.Conducted experiments, data acquisition and Matlab simulations.Experience

Ventureship Club project with

September 2011-December 2011Helped Levant Power understand the market of their wave power energy generation product Oceangen.Worked in a team of three. We analyzed the market size, customers' pain point, etc.Connected Levant Power with, an Oceanographic Institution to test and develop the product.

Job Shadow with Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group

July 18th 2011 - july 28th 2011Worked with the chassis group that was developing a hybrid vehicle.During the short period of time I learned Catia CAD and produced two parts.

Senior Design Project with FoxConn

January 2011-May 2011Worked in a team of four in the design of a fiber optic connector assembly.Played a major role in the CAD design and did tolerance and finite element analysis on the design.Reduced the estimated manufacturing cost of original design by 70% and produced a working prototype.

Internship with Volkswagen, Shenzhen

June 2008-July 2008Hands on experience to learn about cars and work in a team.

Summer Intensive Program at Nagoya University, Japan

June 2010-July 2010Received lectures from outstanding Engineers and Professors in Japan on Automobile Engineering.Visited research and production facilities in Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Toyota and met with the engineers on site.

Silicon Valley Work Shop

January 5th 2009-January 16th 2009The workshop was a great experience to meet start-ups and learn about entrepreneurship.HonorsMember of PTS Mechanical Engineering Honorary SocietyGraduate with High Honors, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignJames Scholar, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSkillsComputer: ProEngineering, Solid Works, Catia, C/C++, Java, Matlab, HTML, Working Model, EESLanguages: Chinese, English, Beginner in Japanese

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