Engineer Mechanical

Isaac A. Ruse, P.E.

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Auburn, AL 36830

Phone: 317-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Objective

To obtain employment in a position that will challenge me to strengthen my engineering abilities and management skills.

Experience

January 2005 to June 2011

AIM Machinery

Merrillville, IN

Starting Position: Mechanical Engineer

Final Position: Project Engineer

Utilized a top-down approach for designing custom machinery and material handling systems for steel mills.

Interpreted contract documents, including customer specifications, and had full responsibility for projects ranging in values upwards of one million dollars.

Traveled to customer locations for face to face interaction to understand problems, discuss needs, collect data, and review drawings and specifications for existing and future projects.

Supported sales staff by creating proposal drawings, calculations, cost estimates, and proposal letters.

Negotiated vendor contracts, purchased components and services, managed the manufacturing process, and developed and maintained project schedules.

Interpreted customer's and supplier’s existing mechanical drawings and created new equipment drawing sets for manufacture, modification, and assembly using AutoCad and Inventor.

Interpreted and employed industry standards and design guides for engineering equipment that posed a high safety risk such as overhead lifting devices and molten metal containers.

Utilized structural, kinematic, load, and stress analysis to design equipment to resist static failure, dynamic fatigue failure, and impact.

Designed and detailed structural steel fabrications, machined components, and sheet metal parts applying knowledge of material properties, manufacturing techniques, fits and tolerances, design standards, stress concentrations, and design for assembly.

Performed time studies, developed cycle time requirements, completed power calculations, and designed and selected appropriately sized drive components such as motors, shafts, couplings, bearings, and lubrication systems.

Certified existing and designed new static structures such as walkways, platforms, lifting devices, and containers.

Designed control systems, created electrical device layout drawings, and approved electrical schematic drawings.

Designed entire fluid power systems and created hydraulic/pneumatic layouts and schematic drawings with complete bills of material.

Provided guidance to draftsman/designers and participated in hiring and mentoring.

Created owner's manuals with maintenance and operating instructions.

Tested, troubleshot, and field commissioned equipment.

Created design and project management standards to improve efficiency and work towards ISO9000 compliance.

August 2000 to August 2003

Thomson Consumer Electronics

Indianapolis, IN

Mechanical Engineering Co-op

Worked in a product protection laboratory, testing products through vibration, drop, shock, compression, etc.

Designed parts for products, fixtures for testing, and procedures for calibration of lab equipment.

Used solid modeling cad techniques on Ideas by Structural Dynamics Research Corporation to work on many design problems.

Professional Development

Indiana Professional Engineer-Mechanical Systems & Materials (License # PE10910641)

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette (May 2004)

Completed University-Industry Cooperative Education Program in Engineering (August 2003)

Member, American Institute of Steel Technology (2007-Present)

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