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Materials engineering professional with keen analytical thinking and design skills who identifies clients needs and turns them into functional products at lower costs. Resourceful, innovative, creative, detail-oriented, enthusiastic, team player with a to-do mentality. Diligent, persistent, determined, business-oriented with excellent communication skills.
• 7 years of experience as a materials and product development engineer
• Solid background in metals, composites, and plastics industry
• Experience in automotive industry, international companies (Bosch, Petrotec) and academic institutions
(MIT and University of Minho)
• Able to identify design needs and offer different solutions using Six Sigma and project management skills
• Outstanding ability to reach and maintain professional relationships with customers and suppliers
• Computer skills: CAD SolidWorks, FEM, CFD, OpenFoam, CES Material Selector, Photoshop, MS Office and QB, Pascal
• Laboratory skills and equipment: Microscopy (OM/SEM/TEM), XRD, Mechanical testing (tensile, impact, bending), Powder metallurgy, Metals, alloys and MMC composites processing, Friction/wear analysis, 3D Printing
• Languages: English, Farsi, Portuguese and Spanish CORE SKILLS
Materials Science Product Design & Development Materials & Technology Selection Physical Metallurgy of Alloys Injection Molded Plastics CAD (SolidWorks) FEM CFD Market and Cost Analysis PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & RELEVANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS R&D MATERIALS ENGINEER: BOSCH – Braga, Portugal Oct 2015 – Apr 2018 Project: Noise Reduction on Steering Wheel Sensors
• Lead, coordinate and contact plastic suppliers (e.g. BASF, Sabic, Celanese) for technical support of materials behavior in collaboration with sales and mold engineers to meet customer’s requirements.
• Study, laboratory analysis (friction, stick-slip, tribology, etc.) and selection of materials.
• Design, development and synthesis of polymer composites for noise reduction.
• Optimization of mold and part designs for injection of plastic parts. Accomplishments:
• Reduction of overall acoustic emission
• Final product cost reduction
MECHANICAL ENGINEER: BOSCH / UNIVERSITY OF MINHO – Braga, Portugal Dec 2014 – Sep 2015 Project: Vibration Analysis of a Car-radio Chassis
• Force estimation in connecting joints (bolts, screws, etc.) by means of reverse vibration analysis.
• Supervised and coordinated the registration of results into a patent.
• Delivered monthly reports as a liaison between Bosch and University of Minho. Accomplishments:
• Successfully implemented a new technique to calculate force in bolted structures MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER: PETROTEC – Guimarães, Portugal Sep 2010 – Jan 2014 Project: Design and Development of a New Rollover Machine
• Market study, Sketching and CAD design (SolidWorks) for a new steel structure.
• FEM analysis of a rollover machine in actual working conditions (static/dynamic/frequency mode shapes).
• Design and verification of a new drying system by CFD.
• Cost calculation and estimation for various materials and processes in collaborate with sales engineers.
• Results were implemented in the product, prototyped and delivered to market. Accomplishments:
• Reduction of cost, weight, labor and the number of structural elements for the new machine.
• Enhanced the new machine architecture for logistic, manufacture and assembly.
• Improved and verified machine behavior by means of FEM and CFD simulations. RESEARCHER: MIT – MATERIALS SYSTEM LABORATORY – Boston, MA Feb 2014 – Jun 2014 Project: Cost Study of Materials and Processes for a Rollover Machine
• Cost study of various materials, surface-finish, and processes (eg sheet metal forming vs. thermoforming).
• Studied and defined market segmentation for a new rollover machine. Accomplishments:
• Cost reduction by selection of materials and processes for various parts INTERN: ALUMINA DIE-CAST – Tehran, Iran Jan 2008 – Feb 2009 Project: Quality Control of Aluminum Die-Casting Parts
• Inspected and controlled quality of aluminum die-cast and shot pinned parts.
• Contacted suppliers for raw materials.
EDUCATION
Ph. D. In Engineering Design and Manufacturing: MIT Portugal program (USA & Portugal) 2015 M.Sc. in Materials Engineering: Azad University of Tehran, (Iran) 2007 B.Sc. in Materials and Metallurgy Engineering: Azad University of Tehran, (Iran) 2005 PUBLICATIONS
• Numerical Modeling of a Rollover Carwash Machine Structure, Modeling and Simulation, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 52–58, 2014.
• Design of a Modular Rollover Carwash Machine Structure, Machine Design, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 129–136, 2015.
• Design of a Drying System for a Rollover Carwash Machine Using CFD, Computational Design and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 398–413, 2016.
• A Cost Study of Common Surface Finish Systems for Steel Structures, Surface Coatings International, vol. 98.2, no. 2, pp. 90–95, 2015.
• Synthesis and Characteristics of Continuous Basalt Fiber Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites, Composite Materials, vol. 47, no. 27, pp. 3379–3388, 2012.
• The Effect of Thermal Treatment on Tensile Properties of Basalt Fibers, Ceramic Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1–4, 2015.
• A Thermomechanical Study of POM-Based Polymers, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 505, (To be published in June), 2018.
• Friction Properties of Polyoxymethylene (POM) Materials in Dry and Lubricated Conditions Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 505, (To be published in June), 2018. CONFERENCES
• The Influence of High Temperature Exposure on the Tensile Properties of Basalt Fibers, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (2008), Malaysia.
• Production and Optimization of Aluminum- Basalt Composites by Hand Lay-out Technique, World Congress on Engineering, vol. III, pp. 1826–1829, (2012) London, UK.
• Structural Behavior of a Rollover Carwash Machine, 7th MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, (2013) Boston, USA.
• Dry and Lubricated Friction Properties of Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT) against Polyamide 12
(PA12), IX Iberian Conference on Tribology, (2017) Guimarães, Portugal.
• Acoustic Assessment of a Steering Wheel Sensor Using Particle Velocity Method, Tecniacústica, (2017) Coruña, Spain.
• Acoustic Simulation of a Steering Sensor for Geometric Design Optimization, 23rd ICE/IEEE ITMC,
(2017) Madeira, Portugal.
PATENTS
A Method for Estimating Mass and Force in Fasteners of Bolted Joints (under review by Bosch)