Engineer Mechanical

Morteza Moalemi

Metallurgical / Materials Engineer

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Team-focused, goal-oriented engineer with domestic and global experience and forward-thinking scientific professional with a proven history of designing and developing analytical and experimental techniques to evaluate mechanical, materials, and processing systems, monitoring key variables to ensure high performance. Capable of technical problem solving and utilizing diverse material processing and characterization instruments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS & ACCOMPLISHMENT

Over four years of experience in R&D, Testing, Analysis and Manufacturing

Hands on experience with Materials Testing and Characterization. Laboratory instructor for mechanical testing of Metals and Ceramics (YSZ -Yttria Stabilized Zirconia) including Vickers, Brinell and Rockwell Hardness, Fracture Toughness, Tensile, Spectrometers, Optical Microscopy, Metallography, DTA/TGA, TEM, SEM, EDS, XRD, AFM and FTIR

In depth knowledge and experience with Heat Treatment, Casting and Physical Metallurgy

Adept in Micro-Technology Engineering, Including Clean Room Experience, Slot Die Casting, Sintering Processing, Batch Processing, Furnacing, Mask Aligner, Thermal Evaporator and photolithography Fabrication

Strong competency in Root Cause Analysis, SPS, DOE, technical writings and oral presentations

Proficient in MatLab, Solidworks, AutoCAD and Microsoft Office RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ENrG Incorporated (Buffalo, NY) Nov 2015 – Dec 2016 Materials Engineer

Overseeing technology transfer of R2R (Roll to Roll) process development for ultra-thin, flexible ceramic substrate

Lead and supervise QC data collection and analysis

Experience in maintaining a laboratory and laboratory equipment and also worked with equipment suppliers

Research, design and implement new quality control procedures for increase production yield

Execute Design of Experiments (DOE), SPC and Root Cause Analysis to optimize manufacturing and materials processing

Executed extensive microstructural analysis, including SEM, EDS, XRD measurements

Optimization of sintering conditions and production

Hands-on work experience with slot die casting and furnacing of YSZ thin film

Train new employees in QC positions

The State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY) Sep 2013 – July 2015 Research/Teaching Assistant/Instructor

Independently instructed senior engineering students on how to perform mechanical tensile tests, hardness, impact, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and heat treatment on steels and steel alloys and held weekly lectures on correlating the mechanical test results to micro-structural properties of the materials

Experience in maintaining a laboratory and laboratory equipment and also worked with equipment suppliers

Successfully developed and characterized the MnO2-based (battery) electrode materials

Designed, optimized and fabricated a new method needed for battery electrode materials

Hands-on research experience with effects of the MnO2 volume fraction, the carbon black volume fraction and the presence of the electrolyte on dielectric constant and electrical conductivity of carbon black in a manganese-dioxide electrochemical battery electrode Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) Jan 2011 – May 2013 Research Assistant

Experience with Microfabrication and Nanofabrication

Hands-on research experience with silicon dry and wet etching, mask design for photolithography, etching, FTIR, DSC, TGA, AFM and soft lithography

Manipulated droplets at ultra-low voltages and utilized tunable surface wetting of PPy (DBS) attributed to the induced chemical change upon reduction and oxidation reactions (redox) on conductive polymer

2 years of cleanroom experience leading a team of 2 undergraduates that supported the research Iron Alloy Steel Co. (Tehran, Iran) Sep 2008 – June 2010 Metallurgical/Materials Engineer

Hands-on experience in metal working including casting, heat treating (carburizing) steel alloys

(Stainless steel, low/high carbon steel) and metallography

Wide-ranging knowledge and expertise working with low/high carbon steel

Developed, presented and implemented new ideas for management to improve processes

Performed quality control testing standards: Mechanical testing and NDT University of Tehran (Tehran, Iran) Sep 2005 – April 2007 Research Assistant

Synthesized nano crystalline mullite (Ceramic) by mechano-chemical process (sol-gel / milling)

Facilitated the mullitization transformation by Intermediate milling of the gel

Decreased the transformation temperature by increasing the milling time

Performed hot pressing and conducted XRD and SEM to study the microstructure of powders EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, (MSME) with focus in Materials July 2015 State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)

Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering January 2013 Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)

Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering September 2007 University of Tehran (Tehran, Iran)

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

M. Moalleminejad, D.D.L. Chung, “Dielectric constant and electrical conductivity of carbon black as an electrically conductive additive in a manganese-dioxide electrochemical electrode, and their dependence on electrolyte permeation,” Carbon, 91, 2015, 76-87.

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