Pengfei (Jack) Zhao

**** ***** ***, *** ***, E ast Lansing, MI, 48823

Mobile: 5-17-303-****, E-mail: z ac0vf2@r.postjobfree.com Objective

Seeking a full-time Mechanical engineer position in the automotive industry, preferably product design engineer; available from July, willing to relocate democratically

EDUCATION

B achelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering 9/2013 - 5/2017

● Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI GPA: 3.3/4.0

● Courses: Mechanical Design, A utomotive Powertrain Design, Manufacturing Processes, Heat Transfer, Control systems, Vibrations, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Mechanics of Deformable Solids PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Product Designer, Bosch, Farmington Hill, MI 1/2017 - 5/2017 Design a Welding Fixture and Apparatus for Turbo Wastegate Actuator Lever

● Designed wastegate fixture (Push Rod design) to hold wastegate spindle at the fully closed position

● Made decision matrix and determined to use Push Rod design for wastegate fixture

● Sketch a 3D Push Rod model using NX

● Manufactured all 4 parts of Push Rod design using drilling, lathe, and milling machines

● Design a pair of gears with 1 : 1 ratio for Welding Apparatus using NX Mechanical Design Engineer, D eli, Ningbo, China 5/2015 - 8/2015 Design Hole Puncher Mechanism

● Applied knowledge of cam, gear and linkage to design the crank mechanism

● Sketched a 3D Hole Puncher model using NX

● Constructed the prototype in the machine shop using drilling, lathe, and milling machines Engine Engineer, A utomotive Powertrain Design (ME 445) Course Project, MSU, MI 1 /2017 - 5/2017 Study of Variable Valve Actuation System on a 5.0 L Ford Engine (SAE)

● Utilized GT-Power to model a 5.0 L engine based on a first generation Coyote Ford engine

● Optimized engine Power and Torque, 394 HP at 6500 RPM and 371 ft-lbf at 5000 RPM Reverse Engineer, M anufacturing (ME 477) Course Project, MSU, MI 9/2016 - 11/2016 Milwaukee 10 Inch Aviation Snips Dissection

● Collaborated with teammates to disassemble the snips into 13 parts

● Compared 6 different brands of snips and made a competitive benchmarking in terms of 9 parameters

● Analyzed manufacturing process of 5 components: shears, handles, nuts, screws and springs Mechanical Design Engineer, M echanical Design II (ME 471), MSU, MI 7 /2016 - 8/2016 Design a foldable lifting mechanism

● Collaborated with teammates to build 11 pieces of pre-assembly components

● Modified the system that was initially unable to lift vertically by adding a spring

● Performed the failure analysis using ANSYS to predict the best performance of the product

● Validated that the system could hold 300 lbs., which exceeded project expectations of 250 lbs

● Won the championship during the final competitions KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

● CAD (NX, Solidworks), Matlab, HEED MDO, Labview, GT Power and Microsoft Office

● Moderate CAE skills including FEA software like ANSYS workbench

● Machining tools, Lathe, CNC, Injection Molding, Vibration Welding and Ultrasonic Welding

● Extensive knowledge of automobile engine and fluid dynamics

● Native in Chinese mandarin