Johnny Lam
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SUMMARY
Self-motivated, proactive problem solver with 3+ years of industry and research experience in product design, mechanical, and material science engineering. Please see CAD / FEA portfolio on profile for more information (or click here). EDUCATION
09/14 – 06/16 Stanford University, School of Engineering
- Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering GPA: 3.77 / 4.00
- With a focus on Mechanical Engineering
- Relevant Courses: Smart Product Design, Sensors Applications, Batteries, Polymers, Design Leadership 09/10 – 05/14 Boston University, College of Engineering
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Magna Cum Laude
- Relevant Courses: Product Design, CAD, FEA Simulation, Heat Transfer, Fluid, Mechanics WORK EXPERIENCE
06/15 – 08/15 Research and Development Engineer Intern, Niagara Bottling Ontario, CA
- Optimized bottle designs and increased mechanical strength through FEA simulation and 3D-prototyping
- Applied Design of Experiments to investigate mechanical improvements from altering design factors
- Conducted FEA simulations under multiple settings, including drop and impact performance
- Prototyped new bottle designs and conducted experiments to compare results with simulation 05/13 – 08/13 Mechanical Engineer Intern, Aromatrix Hong Kong
- Designed odor control facilities and AUTOCAD pipe-layout drawings; wrote technical service manuals PROJECT EXPERIENCE
11/15 – 12/15 Drought Abatement Machine, Mechatronic Project Stanford, CA
- Designed, created and implemented a mechatronic game to promote drought awareness in CA
- Designed and built hardware circuits that employ passive components, shift registers, and transistors
- A brief overview of this product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAsGiCzM6c 11/13 – 05/14 Utility Knife for Stanley Black & Decker, Senior Design Project Boston, MA
- Bolstered customer safety by designing a utility knife with a novel, no-touch reloading mechanism
- Built a variety of prototypes to efficiently discover flaws and made incremental design improvements
- Collaborated closely with Stanley Black & Decker to perfect the design with DFA, DFM, and GD&T 10/13 – 12/13 Enhancing Performance of Metamaterials, MEMS Project Boston, MA
- Designed a MEMS that improved performance by 175% and decreased power consumption by 80%
- Employed “out-of-the-box” actuation methods that eliminated problems reported in competing studies 03/13 – 05/13 Laptop Cooler, Design and Simulation Project Boston, MA
- Lead a team and designed new laptop cooler that enhanced the cooling performance by 20%
- Investigated the heat transfer performance of laptop coolers through FEA simulation
- Simulation models included convective and conductive boundary conditions to cool down laptop ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Software: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, PTC Creo, COMSOL, NASTRAN, Mathematica, LaTeX Programming: C, MATLAB