Bijan Borzou
Mechanical/Thermal Designer – Canopy Growth
Canadian Citizen
PhD in Fluid Mechanics
CONTACT INFORMATION
adavd7@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY OF SKILLS
Experienced in
• CFD, mechanical and thermal design
• Electronics cooling, aerodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics
• Numerical simulations, optimizations and experimentation
• 2D/ 3D mechanical design CAD, Drawing and GD&T techniques (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and CATIA).
• Steady/ unsteady/ laminar/ turbulent CFD
• Heat-Exchangers design
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mechanical/Thermal Designer at Canopy Growth
09.2018-Present
• Building numerical models and performing CFD studies for thermal analysis/design of Canopy Growth products and designs including but not limited to different type of vaporizers.
• Validating the modeling work through in lab characterization of hardware.
• Creating drawings and assisting with work instructions for device assembly.
• Determining if competitive devices can be characterized - model typical competitive systems in market.
• Authoring and releasing Engineering Specifications, Design Briefs, Drawings,
• RoHS/Reach/Material analysis
Thermal Engineer at IBM Sherbrooke (Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation – 3IT).
02.2018-09-2018
• Performing thermal analysis of microelectronic devices and IBM products.
• Performing CFD/FEA simulations for the flip chip geometry.
• Performing analysis on the mechanical and thermal reliability of the flip chip joints.
• Developing and modifying the software used at C2Mi-IBM for thermal and mechanical analysis of microelectronic devices using Java and C programming languages
• Validating numerical simulations with the experimental data, proposing technical solutions for design, and test improvements.
Bombardier Aerospace, Montreal, Quebec
CFD Engineer on contract at Adv. Aero. Dept.
12.2016-01.2018
• Prepared structured/ unstructured meshing on CAD layouts to perform CFD analysis 2
• Performed aerodynamic simulation on the CFD model of the Global 6000 aircrafts
• Performed turbulence modeling of vortex formation around the aircraft.
• Predicted aerodynamics Lift and Drag at wind tunnel geometry for semi aircraft models
• Correlation of Flight Test Data to CFD Models
• Explosions & Detonations Lab – University of Ottawa, Canada Mechanical Engineer (Researcher)
09.2010-07.2016
• Participated in numerical and experimental testing of gaseous combustions
• Analyzed CFD simulations, thermal calculations, experimentation, and modeling on combustible gases
• Investigated the suppression limits of the explosions.
• Performed hydrodynamic and thermal simulations on the combustion of reactive gases
• Experimental visualizing gaseous combustions through Schlieren and high speed Shadowgraph photography techniques
NIA HVAC Co. (Exclusive Representative of Hitachi), Iran Mechanical Engineer
06.2009 – 08.2010
• Analyzed the costumer opportunities and needs, and suggested appropriate HVAC system based on their needs
• Conducted research into feasibility, design, operation, performance of mechanisms, components, and systems
• Performed thermal analysis and load calculation for installation of HVAC systems
• Developed maintenance standards, schedules, and programs
• Prepared CAD drawings and technical reports of projects
• Participated in the company promotion meetings as a production engineer Shiraz Oil Refinery Co. (SORC), Iran
Mechanical Engineer - Intern
04.2005 – 10.2005
• Analyzed vibration and thermal behavior of rotary machines under different loadings
• Measured vibration and velocity of different pumps and turbines
• Prepared technical reports of the pumps and turbines status
• Validated the new design of nozzles/diffusers and heat-exchangers for SORC projects
• Performed CAD drawings for layouts of mechanical parts in machinery workshop COMPUTER SKILLS
• CFD Software: Flotherm, Solidworks Flow Simulation, Fluent, StarCCM, CFD, OpenFOAM, ANSYS, Tecplot, Pointwise, ICEM, ANSYS Icepak and Gambit
• 2D/ 3D CAD Software: AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CATIA
• Programming languages: C, Fortran, Matlab, Java, and Python
• Presentation Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and LATEX
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
EDUCATION
• Ph.D.: Fluid Mechanics-(2010 – 2016) University of Ottawa, Canada
• B.Sc. & M.Sc.: Fluid Mechanics-(2003 – 2009) Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
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CERTIFICATIONS/WORKSHOPS
• Solidworks Essentials, Drawings, Advanced Part Modeling and Flow Simulation, Javelin Technologies.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
[C1] P. M. Souare, M. K. Toure, S. Allard, B. Foisy, B. Borzou, J. Sylvestre, High precision numerical and experimental thermal studies of microelectronic packages in still air chamber testes, Proceeding of Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference ESTC 2018, 18-21 September 2018, Dresden, Germany.
[J1] B. Borzou, M. I. Radulescu, Dynamics of detonations with a constant mean flow divergence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 845, 346-377.
[C2] B. Borzou, F. Sadeghpour, System design and optimization of a water-lithium bromide double-effect absorption refrigeration system, International Conference on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, May 2009, Tehran, Iran.