Jorge A. Catalan

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El Paso, TX *9902

915-***-****

acqgql@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

A position as a Metallurgical and Materials Engineer, Electrical Engineer, or Petroleum Engineer, which will enable me to demonstrate my problem solving, critical thinking, stress management, leadership, moral and ethical abilities. The position should help me to excel the before mentioned abilities, as well as get some experience and broadening my knowledge in the different engineering fields.

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) – El Paso, TX

Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical and Material Engineering (MME)

Anticipated graduation date: December 2014

Overall GPA: 3.92 Major GPA: 3.88

RELEVANT COURSES

Electro Mechanical Systems Intro to Materials Science & Engineering Metals Processing

Differential Equations Rate Processes Structural Characterization

Composite Materials Nanofunctional Physical Metallurgy Failure Analysis

Mechanics of Materials Intro to Electronic Materials Biomaterials Printing

Engineering Alloys Mechanical Behavior of Materials Corrosion

Applied Thermodynamics Intro to Computer Science

Mat. Synthesis and Manufacturing

HONOR AND ACTIVITIES

Mining Engineer of the Year 2014.

Treasurer of the Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Mu.

Actual member of The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME).

Dean’s List.- Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014 and Fall 2014 at UTEP.

Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

Project “Hot, Flat and Crowded.” Teleconference about solar cells panels at CISCO Company

EXPERIENCE

Summer 2014 (June 15th – August 16th )

Stanford University. TEM Sample Preparation Techniques

Worked in the Material Science Department at Stanford University under the supervision of Dr. Robert Sinclair. During the summer the Sinclair group taught me two different techniques to prepare TEM samples.

Increased the quality of the TEM samples by hand polishing the specimen until reaching a thickness lower than 10 µm.

Certified to use DB235 FIB/SEM machine for TEM sample preparation.

Exchange of ideas with different collaboration groups to improve techniques and processes.

Summer 2013 (June 9th – August 10th).

University of California Berkeley. Metal Oxide RRAM as a Synapse in a Neuromorphic Computing Network.

Worked in the Center for Energy Efficient Electronic Science under the supervision of Dr. King Liu (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Nuo Xu characterizing Ti/ZrO2/Au bipolar metal oxide resistive switching memory.

Wrote a Matlab code to simulate and therefore understand the synaptic characteristics of the RRAM.

Suggested the size reduction of the device in order to better control the vacancy-path growth.

Group meetings every Wednesday to discuss methodology and problem’s approach.

Poster and project presentation in an energy efficiency symposium.

Technical paper.

Spring 2013 (January - May).

University of Texas at El Paso. Chlorine Effect on Titanium, Copper and Stainless Steel.

During all the spring 2013 semester Monica Cadena and your server worked under the supervision of Dr. Namsoo Kim and Dr. Varma. Three different materials (Titanium, Pure Copper, and Stainless Steel 316L) were exposed to different chemical environments containing chlorine, such as, salt water and a .1 molar HCl solution, in order to see their respective corrosion properties.

Provided mdd, mpy and other calculations to have an insight of what results to look for.

Proposed the XRD and SEM analysis of the samples to better understand corrosion properties.

Technical report and project presentation.

Summer 2012 (June 1st - August 30th).

University of Texas at El Paso. Clean and Oxidize Silicon Wafers.

Worked as a group member in Dr. Zubia’s research team.

Wrote a manual for Clean-Room facility.

Cleaned and oxidized silicon wafers.

Group meetings every Tuesday to present advances.

Fall 2011 (August - December).

Math and Science (chemistry, physics, etc.) tutor.

Help classmates, high school, and middle school students with their respective assignments, mainly mathematics.

Two daily students exceled their math class.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Social Service; Cd. Juarez

Assisted to different places that need help (like SEMARNAT, Años dorados, etc.). We helped the people that were in charge of the place to do housekeeping.

SKILLS

Strong leadership skills; able to prioritize and make good decisions quickly.

Teamwork supporter; able to work as any role in a teamwork.

Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

Exemplary problem-solving skills

Entrepreneurial vision.

Proficient in MS Excel & Power Point.

Extensive use of Internet and MS Word.

Familiar with Fireworks, Flash, Dream Weaver, NX7.5, AutoCAD and Matlab.

Bilingual (Spanish 100% & English 100%).

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