Mechanical Engineering Assistant

Summary of qualifications

Graduate student majoring in Mechanical Engineering with extensive team work and community involvement

Education

**/**** ******* ********** ** Washington, Seattle

Major: Mechanical Engineering, Master, GPA 3.7/4.0

09/2007 06/2011 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China

College: Materials Science and Engineering

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Research experience and Professional activities

Soft matter and Microfluidics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle

09/2010-present

Position: Research assistant

Elastic instabilities of complex fluids, experimental studies and modeling with

AutoCAD, Uni-graphics (UG) and computational simulations by MATLAB

and COMSOL;

Synthesize and perform rheology, light scattering characterizations of self

healing and thermal responsive diblock copolymers

Microstucture (SEM, TEM) analysize of flow induced structure phase formed

in microfluidic device, applications with glucose oxides, carbon nano -tubes

08/2013-09/2013

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland

Participating in “Flow-Induced Structured Phases in Micellar Solutions by

SANS and USANS Complementary” Proposal, studying temperature and

vortex motion effects on complex fluids.

09/2008-06/2010

State Key Lab of Forging Die & Mold Tech. HUST

Position: Research assistant

Experiments on optimal ingredients of acid catalyst in synthesizing urea

formaldehyde furan resin; testing of mechanical properties (fatigue and

breaking up)of composite material

Applying CCD technology and closed-loop control system in rapid mold

manufacturing; researching on parameters that have influences on the filling

of plasma welding line.

Internship experience

SANY Group Co Ltd

07/2010/2010

Position: Internship of Planning and Scheduling Department

Duties: Designing models, supervising manufacturing process and making

manufacturing plans

Publications and Conference experience

02/2013 Ya Zhao, Joshua J. Cardiel, Lige Tonggu, Liguo Wang and Amy Q. Shen

Flow induced irreversible gelation of nonionic surfactants in a microfluidic device with

microposts

Society of Rheology, 84th annual meeting, Pasadena, California

05/2013 J. J. Cardiel, A.C. Dohnalkova, N. Dubash, Y. Zhao, P. Cheung, A. Q. Shen,

Microstructure and rheology of a flow-induced structured phase in wormlike micellar

solutions, PNAS Plus, 2013, 110 (18), E1653-E1660

08/2010 Ya Zhao (co-edit). “Optimization of Tensile Strength of New Type Acetone Urea

Formaldehyde Furan Resin.”

China Foundry (indexed in American SCI and American Chemistry, accepted)

Awards

09/2013 CHRNS travel grant for graduate student traveling NIST

09/2011-12/2011 Crockett Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington

2009-2010 National Scholarships Inspirational Granted by Chinese Ministry of Education

Title of Outstanding volunteer in the Annual Summer Social Practice

Award of “Excellent Student Cadre” Scholarship

2008-2009 Hong Kong Qiu Shi Foundation Scholarship

Award Meritorious in the Design and Management of Database System in

Microsoft.Net Club

Award in recognition of Excellent Academic Advancement Scholarship. HUST

Leadership and Extracurricular activities

Incoming exchange in HUST AISSEC Team leader

2009-2010

Making brief strategy and inspection in energy market and scheduling internal ship between

companies and trainees of energy sources

Excellent Student Training in HUST Leader of Supporting Team

2008-2009

Leading supporting team to search for patronize of everyday training and social practice.

Association union of HUST vice president of Association Center

2007-2009

Planned, attended and supervised association activities and handled associated urgent issues.

Established a feedback group to make people communicate more convenient and avoid the

miss of information

Teaching Assistance

Fall, 2013 ME 323 Engineering Thermodynamics

Spring,2013 ME 230 Dynamics and Kinetics

Winter,2012 ME 333 Fluid mechanics

Skills

Bilingual in English and Mandarin, skilled in Rheometers, MATLAB, COMSOL, AutoCAD, Unigraphics (UG),

Adobe illustrator, Dynamic light scattering (DLS), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Latex, Microsoft

office

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