Mechanical Engineering Engineer

Christopher Rouxel

Education

● M.S. Mechanical Engineering – September 2010 – May 2012

The University of Texas at Austin

3.4545 GPA in Design and Manufacturing Thrust

● B.S. Mechanical Engineering – September 2006 - May 2010 T he University of Texas at Austin

3.55 GPA with French Minor

● International Baccalaureate – September 2002 - May 2006 Lamar High School, Houston, Texas

Work Experience

Sep. 2016 – Nov. 2016 Mechanical Designer, Mixer Design Group, Austin, TX

● Developed snap designs for plastic parts in Creo.

● Designed seals for injection molded parts for IPXX certification .

● Surfaced organic features in ProE/Creo for wearables using a top-down modeling approach.

● Prototyped fatigue failure test bed for flexible printed circuit boards with Arduino’s, motors, and logging. May 2016 – July 2016 Mechanical Designer, Function Engineering, New Orleans, LA

● Mechanical design of injection molded mechanisms for medical and consumer devices.

● Was responsible for analysis and validation of Nitinol (shape memory alloy) actuator system.

● Fabricated prototypes with FDM printing, desktop CNC (Nomad), and manual mill.

● Utilized arduinos for quick testbed development for product validation and characterization March 2013 – Sep. 2014 Development Engineer, itRobotics Inc., Houston, TX

● Redesigned mechanical-chassis of steel tube inspection tools, improving accuracy of eddy current and magnetic flux leakage sensors.

● Designed test beds and conducted experiments to make decisions regarding designs, procedures, and materials.

● Implemented required tests to certify inspection tools for CE and ATEX.

● Wrote the operating instructions for the inspection tool in a clear and concise (technical) language. Skills /Misc.

● Hobbies include building acoustic guitars and learning the clarinet.

● Read, write and speak English (Native), French (Native) and Spanish (Conversational).

● Dual U.S./ French citizenship.

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