Engineer Project

MANUEL GARCIA

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Residence: 713-***-****

Houston, TX 77082 ************@*******.*** Cellular: 713-***-****

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a full time position in the field of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering with a company that rewards hard work with advancement.

Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE

WH Laboratories (Metallurgical & Materials Engineer) Dec 2008 – Present

Duties with WH Labs include:

• In charge of a failure analysis project/investigation with four technicians on my command. The project was on two room size boiler tanks that exploded in a sugar manufacturing plant in the Dominican Republic. The explosion caused three deaths. The company wanted to know who was at fault with the explosion, was it improper use or an improper manufacturing process before going thru any type litigation trail. After an in depth investigation of mechanical, SEM, and metal graphical testing. We concluded that the sugar plant was at fault by improper use of the boiler tanks.

• In charge of a failure analysis project/investigation with three technicians on my command. The project was on 6” water pipes that had thin wall corrosion, the problem was occurring on the top executive floor of the Exxon building in Houston TX and in the AT&T Center (Home of the San Antonio Spurs). The cast iron pipes where in services for about 5-9 years in both places. When dealing with cast iron, the material should last close to over 60 years, with ideal services conditions. After an in depth investigation of mechanical, SEM, metal graphical testing and on site testing. It was assessed that improper manufacturing process by the mill, was the cause for the pipes failing in service.

• Managing a metallurgical testing laboratory for a Failure Analysis Consultant Firm. Responsibilities include Metallurgical & Special Testing on: Coating Testing, Electron Microscopy, Corrosion Evaluation, Heat Treat Analysis, Grain Size, Fracture Mode Analysis, Simulated Environment, Ferrite Determination, Alloy Identification, SEM with Light Element EDS Capability. Etc.

• Assist with development of fatigue and fracture materials data for design engineers, providing mechanics of materials consulting service. This data is then used to diagnose and correct problems with the equipment.

• Chemical testing: Alloy identification, metals composition – Ferrous and Non-ferrous alloys.

• Presenting and signing off all test reports for customers that have met ASTM, API and customer product specification

Texas Steel Conversion (TSC) (Metallurgical / Quality Engineer) Aug 2005 – Dec 2008

Duties with TSC include:

• Managing and maintained three metallurgical labs. Heat-treating different grades of steel pipe that is for casing and oil wells that will be extruding petroleum and natural gases for other oil industries around the world. Also, inspect tubing and casing that has failed in the field of use or that has failed during the heat-treating process.

• Using software and developing skills acquired, to help maintain the current software program used to run the heat-treating process at TSC.

• Knowledge on API 5CT, API 5D, API Spec 7 and ASTM Spec.

• Presenting and signing off all test reports for customers that have met API product specification.

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Related Projects

Precipitation Hardening Effects on Aluminum – Copper Alloys Spring 2005

The objective was to study the effects of Precipitation Hardening on Aluminum – Copper alloys by using different alloy compositions. The alloys were all cast, solutionized, aged harden, polished and photographed to see the microstructure thru Optical and TEM microscopes. Hardness values where taken thru Rockwell (HRH Scale) creating aging curves to evaluate the hardness variation for all four alloy compositions for the given range of aging time periods to determine the precipitation harden.

Senior Project Spring 2004

Help Advanced Forming Technology (AFT) a company in Colorado which created air craft parts, to solve a large problem with knit line defects found in their sintered parts right after their powder injection molding process. The overall goal of the project was to provide the company a reason why there parts where encountering knit line defects.

Failure Analysis Project Spring 2004

Involved in the determining why 1inch bolts in diameter where cracking while being used under severe stress concentration, to hold in place industrial size cement mixers. The reason for the cracking in the bolts under severe stress, was they where defected straight from the manufacture

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Coursework

Failure Analysis; Engineering Alloys; Engineering Design; Material Structures; Electronic Materials & Devices; Introduction to Plutonium Metallurgy (Physical Properties); Composites Materials; Structural Characterization; Applied Chemical Thermodynamics and Mechanics I & II;

Skills

Bilingual: Fluent in English / Spanish; Read, Write and Speak, Advanced Computer Skills in AutoCAD and Computer Literate in C++ and System Design. Familiar with Failure Analysis, Secondary Electron Microscope (SEM), & Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM).

Awards

NASA Aeroscholar Engineer / NASA Training

Professional Affiliations (MAES/SHPE) Jan 2003 – Present

(Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MASE) and the Society of Hispanic professional Engineers (SHPE))

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