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Mohammad Hendijanifard
PhD, Laser Applications and Materials Processing
Mechanical, Design, Manufacturing, and Test Engineer
Thin Film Micromachining
Optics/Electronics Setup and Alignment
Matlab, Fluent, CAD, Excel, LabVIEW
Mechanical and Thermo-Fluids
Laser Micromachining Laboratory
Mechanical Engineering Department
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX75205
Tel: 469-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
lyle.smu.edu/~mhendija
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VALUE TO AN ORGANIZATION
Mechanical & Laser Application Engineer, Laser Micromachining, Optics/Beam Delivery Systems & Alignment, Laser Material Processing, Thin Films, Experimentation Design, Lasers, Optics, Matlab, Analysis, Data Acquisitions, LabVIEW, Excel, CAD, Thermo-Fluids, Heat Transfer, Micromanufacturing
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Extensive hands on experience with Nd:Yag (355nm,532nm, and 1064nm), Nd:Ylf (349nm), and Gas Lasers (N2pumped-Dye @500nm)/Optical systems/Laser lenses, mirrors, filters, and beamsplitters/Pulse delay generators/Oscilloscopes/Motion controllers/Motorized and non-motorized actuators/Joule-meters/Optical filters and lenses/Prisms/Waveplates/Second and third harmonic laser crystals/Cube polarizers/Photodiodes/SEM/Profilometer/Pulsed laser film deposition
• Cutting microchannels in PDMS; Improved manufacturing process by removing two stages
• Cutting, micro mold making, and casting microfluidic channels in polyimide, Epoxy, and PDMS
• Hands on experience with testing/optimizing Nd:YLF laser by applying heat sink to add the power output
• Hands on experience with optical, electronics, hardware and software, and laser setup
• Extensive hands on experience with micromachining techniques to cut metal thin films
• Hands on experience with online measuring the amount of removed mass during laser micromachining of thin aluminum films with strong potential in microfabrication of solar films
• Hands on experience with experiments measuring the pressure induced by lasers during laser micro interaction with materials with application in laser shock cleaning of contaminated surfaces
• Hands on experience with experiments on hole opening during laser microfabrication and microdrilling of thin metal films with strong potential applications in metal and polymer laser applications
• Hands on experience with designing and setting up experiments
• Hands on experience with setup of optical tables, oscilloscope, motion controllers, actuators, Nd:YLF laser, Nd:YAG laser, N2 pumped laser dye laser, geometrical optics, cylindrical lenses, Polka dot beam splitters, high energy mirrors, hot and cold mirrors, microscopic lenses, waveplates, linear polarizer, beam expander, laser filters, second and third harmonic generator crystals and separators, q switches, flash lamps
• Maintaining and managing the laser micromachining laboratory for 4.5 years, training other labmates
• Hands on experience with experiments to synchronize the hardware and software including YLF laser, gas laser, CCD camera, and time delay generator through a LabVIEW program
• Hands on experience with writing LabVIEW codes to program the laser and motion controller hardware
• Hands on experience with LabVIEW programming to control lasers and time delay generator for synchronization purposes
• Laser micro drilling and micro cutting in aluminum, nickel, tungsten, polyimide, glass, and polymers
• Fabrication of microfilters in 5 mm thick polymer, Fabrication of microchannels in hydroxyapatite (artificial bone)
• Fabrication of surface microstructures on polyimide to produce hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces
• Direct laser writing of micro electronic circuit on glass with silver paste and transfer of bacteria to agar
• Hands on experience with calibration of apparatus such as nonlinear thermocouples and viscometer
• Hands on experience with designing/building/testing equipment from scratch (i.g. desiccant dehumidifier)
• Hands on experience with testing new equipment such as airflow machines, test pumps, micro phase change pumps, and particle meters and flow meters in clean rooms
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WORKSHOPS/EDUCATION
• Laser Institute of America workshops on laser solutions, laser power, energy, and beam profiling, laser drilling, process monitoring and control, laser surface treatment, laser beam sources, laser fundamentals, laser applications, and laser material processing
• PhD graduate (Aug.2006-Dec. 2010), Laser Micromachining Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, GPA 3.96
• Engineer in training (EIT) in Texas, Preparing for professional engineering, 2007
• MS, Energy Conversion, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (Top Eng. School in Iran)
• BSC, Fluids and Heat, Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University (Top Graduated Student, Top three in Iran)
• SMU Leadershape Workshop and Certificate, 2008
• Eligible to work in US. Available immediately.
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COURSE WORK/SOFTWARWE
• Advanced Lasers & Optics, MEMS, Electronics Manufacturing Techniques, Laser Fundamentals and Quantum Physics (3 books), Femtosecond laser pulses
• Advanced heat/mass/particle transfer courses
• Advanced fluid mechanics/thermodynamics/computational fluid dynamics/viscous flow
• Competitive in LabVIEW, Fluent, Ansys, CAD, Matlab, Fortran, C, and Visual basic
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WORK EXPERIENCE
• Laser Micromachining, Fluids, and Heat Transfer Laboratory, Southern Methodist University-SMU, Dallas, Texas Aug. 2006-March. 2011, Laser Applications Engineer
• HVAC companies, Mon Ir. Aug. 2005-Aug. 2006, HVAC expert +1.5 year contract
• Car manufacturer Jun. 2004-Nov. 2004, Engineering Intern
• Power Plant Apr. 2003-Aug. 2003, Engineering Intern
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Doctoral Dissertation: Experiments and analyses for measuring the recoil pressure induced by lasers
• Doctoral Dissertation: Experiments and analyses for measuring the hole opening during laser material interaction
• Doctoral Dissertation: Experiments and analyses for measuring removed mass during laser micromachining
• Fluent model to solve for heat and mass transfer and Marangoni flow during laser-matter interaction
• Fluent model for solving shock waves induced by laser on films of metal
• Scale analysis of Marangoni flow during laser-matter interaction
• Image analyses code with Matlab
• MSC Dissertation: Numerical code with Fortran to solve for 2/3 dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with a finite volume collocated Eulerian scheme to calculate the air and particle flow and temperature distribution in a clean room
• Optimize the object positions in a clean room for the best particle removal efficiency
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CV/PUBLICATIONS/DETAILED PHD WORK/REFERENCES: Available upon Request.