Senior Mechanical Designer - CAE Engineer - 10+ Years Experience in
Resume:
Joseph Hassan
Troy, MI *****
(***********@*****.***)
WORK EXPERIENCE –
March 20, 2023 – Present:
Independent Consultant, “Human And Safety Systems” (HASSCO) Consulting & Training Company; Offers courses in Biomechanics of Injury, Automotive Occupant protection. Courses taught at Lawrence Tech University in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Field; including FE, computational system dynamics among others. Also lead advanced research programs within several government and industrial projects that involves occupant safety protection and CAE simulations. Projects conducted with General Dynamics, NAVISTAR, USARMY (TARDEC) among others. Projects include, Crew and war-fighter Safety, Truck & Bus interior and seat design CAE, Exterior vehicle crashworthiness, Crew Safety simulation and protection against blast. March 20, 2020 – 2023
Laid off due to lack of work as a result of COVID19. Volunteered assignments during COVID restrictions included:
SAE Fatigue Design & Evaluation Committee
Active committee member participated in two Semi-Annual committee meetings. As part of the technical activates, we review technical presentation of research of different aspect of fatigue damage being conducted by research organizations and universities. Activity also includes offering recommendation for future projects, select technical papers that can be recognized on its merits for special rewards. Activities also include participation in technical consultation if required by other participants.
Protect Michigan Committee:
Volunteered in late 2020 to participate in the above new state committee, to offer statistical analyses of risk & benefits of new COVID vaccines (in clinical trials) and also offer recommendations as a result of said analysis. (See typical meeting invite attached)
June 2018 – March 20, 2020:
Waltonen Engineering & Associates;
FEA structural analyst on Engineering projects for military vehicles components as contractor to GDLS programs. Projects include Chassis, powertrian, structural and mechanical systems. Use of Altair hyperworks, Optistruct, Nastran, LSDYNA, DoD “SECRET” Security Clearance Granted 2022
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RADIOSS and others to develop CAE simulation for linear and nonlinear structural analyses for durability, survivability and performance for different requirements such as shock, transportation, fatigue, impact and thermal loading conditions. Typical FE systems analyzed; nonlinear and linear analysis of Tracked vehicles suspension and powertrain components, cooling systems, full vehicle lifting & emergency towing, various supporting brackets against shock and vibration. SubSystems Analysed:
Armor, Grills, Drivers hatch, Hull structure, Hull additions, Turret Structure, Turret Platform, Loader & Comm Hatch, Ammo Compt, Power Pack, Cooling, ECS, CBRN, Suspension, Stoage, Braking, AFES, Smoke Grenades, Steering, Mounting Brackets, Gunners Aux Sight & GPS. Programs of: MPF, OMFV and others.
Jan 2017- June 2018:
Sika USA., Sr. CAE Engineer for Structural Inserts. Responsibilities include Use of Altair hyperworks, Optistruct, Nastran, LSDYNA, RADIOSS etc to develop CAE simulation for plastic and metallic automotive products, in the form of structural reinforces. Develop test proposals to investigate material failure analysis and estimate mechanical properties. use of HyperWorks tools such as meshing, plotting, scripting, optimization and analysis
Skills; Proficient with FEA software packages (ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, Hyperworks, etc.).
Proficient with analytical analysis packages (MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, etc.) Proficient with FMEA, DOE and 6 sigma.
Experience writing technical reports and presentations for customer reviews. Proficient in conducting correlations with experimental data Understanding of injection molding process.
Work with external and internal customers to solve CAE open issues Jan 2015 – Dec 2016:
TEC International; Lead, CAE Engineering Dept., All engineering activities related to products design development of Mechanical Systems. Using Solidworks CAE, CAD & BOM software tools with AHSS applications.
Projects include CAE of axle, chassis and suspension systems as well as powertrain components.
Use of CAE & CFD simulation and modeling packages such as HyperWorks (including meshing, optimization, linear and non-linear analysis), RADIOSS, LSDYNA, DYTRAN, ABAQUS, NASTRAN, ANSYS, ANSA and PAM Suite.
Benchmarking of different CAE-ID packages for nonlinear CAE simulation; including PAM-STAMP, DYNAFORM, AUTOFORM,CATIA v5, MATHCAD and the like Jan. 2012- Jan. 2015:
Engineering Manager, Restraints Systems Department, Autolive NA. Lead project management of restraints systems such as airbags, seatbelts to design counter measures for automotive systems to meet government regulations. Work also include dummy investigations and human biomechanics using CAE tools such as Altair hypermesh and LS-DYNA (also, RADIOSS and ABAQUS).. Projects also included biomechanics of injury risks (HIC, Nij, Tibia index ..etc) and human body modeling simulations. The group also supports legal efforts and provides technical support for government replies to different NHTSA regulations such as 208, 214, 210, 201, 213 and others. Some projects monitor and evaluate new and advanced dummies simulations such as THOR, POLAR II, BioRID, RID III...etc. Occupant analysis and simulation.
Responsibilities also include monitoring university contracts in the area of biomechanics and safety systems, training students such as Ph.D. candidates from Autoliv in safety and crash thesis project issues related to safety. Training involves use of HyperWorks tools such as meshing, plotting, scripting, optimization and analysis. Components and full body models were analyzed for optimum designs including seats, seat belts, airbags, bumper systems, IPs and various body components such as A & B-pillars. Some P/T components were also analyzed using CAE such as gaskets, engine and accessory drive brackets.
Product developed using CAE were part of different full car models such as Jeep Cherokee, Mini-Van, avenger and PT Cruser.
Dec. 2008 – Dec. 2011:
- JHU/APL/. LTU
- National Security Technology Department, Professional Staff II, STG, Applied Physics Lab. Johns Hopkins University
- Leading the efforts to assess biomechanics of human injury to blast and ballistic events using computational modeling and simulation and experimental investigations. Use of different CAE packages such as HyperWorks (meshing, simulation, optimization), LSDYNA, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS and STAR-3D and CATIA 3D.
- Project leader for a variety of system & CAE simulation projects in mechanical & biomedical systems.
– Teaching Computational Simulation Graduate courses at Johns Hopkins Extension programs
CAE Contracts for Mechanical & Biomechnical Automotive Occupant protection systems such as evaluation of seats, dummies, belts, airbags systems. Teaching graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics. Several government and industrial. Projects conducted at USARMY (TARDEC). Typical Projects Also, include, Truck& Bus interior and seat design CAE, simulations of seat systems for various FMVSS (207, 210, 208, 225, Cargo Retention, Rear impact). Interface with client during all stages of project to define requirements, discuss results, make design change recommendations Help manage projects with adherence to quality standards, best practices and methods in a timely manner. Exterior vehicle crashworthiness, Crew Safety simulation and protection against blast. 2006 – Nov. 2008: DaimlerChrysler LLC – Analyst and project manager, Occupant Safety group of the Experimental & Computational Mechanics department of the scientific labs section of the Chrysler Group. The group consists of Leaders and project managers for variety of test & analysis programs in the area of vehicle & pedestrian safety such as frontal impact advanced restraints, side Impact, rear impact and seat designs. Projects also include biomechanics of injury risks and human body modeling simulations. The group also supports legal efforts and provides technical support for government replies to different NHTSA regulations such as 208, 214, 210, 201, 213 and others. Some projects monitors and evaluates new and advanced dummies such as THOR, POLAR II, BioRID, RID III..etc. Occupant analysis and simulation; DaimlerChrysler Scientific Labs and Proving Grounds; Duties include leading crash and safety analysis under different impact conditions and correlate with experimental testing.
SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES -
Extensive background in experimental & computational mechanics of impact in automotive crashes. Extensive knowledge of SAE, ISO and government guidelines and regulations in the area of human protection in automotive crashes.
EDUCATION:, -
- Ph.D., Applied Mechanics., U. of new Brunswick.
Field of study; External Explosions and transient dynamics of structures
- MA Mechanical Engineering. U. New Brunswick, (Fredericton Campus), Canada (Honors GPA 3.8)
- BA Mechanical Engineering Design. (Honors GPA 3.8) MAJOR Non GDLS Projects: -
- Full & oblique frontal impact analysis of MVAN
- Full side impact analysis of small vehicle.
- Full bus analysis of Colorado racking.
- Chassis and suspension system evaluation for NVH and powertarin analysis.
- Component analysis for various vehicles against different impact conditions.
- CAE analysis of Rollover SUV.
- GAS tank high speed impact analysis.
- Seat and head restraint analysis.
- Full B-I-W weld optimization analysis & simulation.
- Vehicle protection against blast conditions
HONORS
- Invited guest speaker at the first Safety & Biomechanics symposium of the Korean Automotive Association, 2007.
- Chairman of the SAE/ISO SC10/WG 3 (out of position airbag test procedures- Includes dummy positioning procedure for frontal, side and rear impact dummies)
- Former Chairman of the Operating Committee of OSRP (Occupant Safety research Partnership) of USCAR (Rotating Assignment that develop strategy and research priorities for OSRP)
- ISO SC12/SC10/WG 4; Virtual testing (for all safety assessments)
- Former Vice Chairman Steering Committee of Global Human Body Modeling Consortium.
- Former Chairman of the Alliance Technical Working Groupb (TWG) on beltfit test device (eBTD)
- Former Convener and organizer of ISO SC10/WG 2 (Pedestrian Impact Protection PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
- Member of the following SAE Committees, subcommittees & Task forces; o Chairman of the Restraint Standards Committee
o Chairman of the ISO SC10/WG 3 “Occupant Interaction with Airbags”. o USTAG of SC10/SC12 (decide on overall direction of all safety tests, biomechanics & dummies use)
o Human Biomechanics & Dummy standards Committee.
o Pedestrian Dummy WG
o THOR Test & Evaluation subgroup
o Human accommodation Design Devices committee (decides on issues for seats, head restraints, H-point machine calibration, HRMD and other devices that measure occupant parameters)
o ISO SC12/WG 5; Dummy evaluation (front, side, rear, pedestrian dummies) o ISO SC12/WG 6: Injury biomechanics (all aspects of occupant and pedestrian injury assessment)
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