Engineering Design

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Connor Mulcahy

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EDUCATION INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

MEDTRONIC INC. CO-OP INTERN STRUCTURAL HEART DIVISION

MASSACHUSENTS

January 2012 - August 2013 (Alternating Semesters) Mounds View, MN

INSTITUTE OF

• Developed, implemented and verified testing procedures for next generation

TECHNOLOGY

transcatheter aortic valves including fatigue testing, valve deflection testing and

MS IN MECHANICAL

x-ray analysis

ENGINEERING

• Wrote MATLAB scripts in support of material property research, design testing and

Expected Aug 2015

lab automation projects

Cambridge, MA

• Designed and implemented lab systems for automation and streamlining of testing

Cum. GPA: 4.8/5

POLYMER TECHNOLOGIES (MCLEAN-FOGG) QUALITY INTERN

UNIVERSITY OF

June 2011 - August 2011 Whitewater, WI

MINNESOTA

BACHELOR OF MECHANICAL • Designed and implemented a variety of material and product quality tests

ENGINEERING • Worked with management to streamline, reformat and update engineering process

Aug. 2013 Minneapolis, MN specification books

Cum. GPA: 3.99/4

Honors Program Participant

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

MIT ELASTICITY, GEOMETRY AND STATISTICS (EGS) LAB

COURSEWORK

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

GRADUATE Advisor: Professor Pedro Reis

Advanced Fluid Mechanics • Aug 2013 – Present Cambridge, MA

Solid Mechanics • Molecular,

• Examined the mechanics of a thin rod injected into a cylindrical constraint

Cellular, and Tissue

• Designed desktop experimental model to analyze methods of extending reach with

Biomechanics • Fields, Forces,

applications to coil tubing in the oil and gas industry

and Flows in Biological Systems

• Acted as Environmental Health and Safety representative for lab

UNDERGRADUATE • Presented reasearch at 2014 ASME International Congress & Exposition

Organic Chemistry • Materials

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CENTER FOR COMPACT AND

in Design • Design and

EFFICIENT FLUID POWER

Manufacturing • Basic

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

Measurements Laboratory •

Statistics, Quality and Reliability Advisor: Professor William Durfee

• Deformable Body Mechanics September 2011 - May 2012 Minneapolis, MN

• System Dynamics and Control • Designed and built testing apparatus for prototype hydraulic-powered ankle foot

orthosis (HAFO)

• Aided in the design process for next generation HAFO

SKILLS SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

Software Packages RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADS (REU) PARTICIPANT

MATLAB• ProENGINEER• Advisor: Professor Jessica Wagenseil and Dr. Mazyar Amin

SolidWorks • LabVIEW June 2010 - August 2010 St. Louis, MO

Programming

• Gained proficiency on COMSOL Multiphysics finite element modeling software

C • C++ • Python • MATLAB

• Developed finite element model of mouse artery to examine circumferential stress

Experimental

distributions

Digital Image Correlation (DIC)

• Presented research to professionals in industry and academia at Biomedical

• High speed video capture and

Engineering Society 2010 Annual Meeting

analysis • Machining/Rapid

Prototyping •Experienced with

wide variety of metrological and

PUBLICATIONS

testing instruments

• Miller, J. T., Mulcahy, C. G., Pabon, J., Wicks, N., & Reis, P. M. (2015). Extending the

Reach of a Rod Injected Into a Cylinder Through Distributed Vibration. Journal of

Applied Mechanics, 82(2), 021003.

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