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 Samuel Douglas

10630 West 104th Place | Westminster, CO, 80021 | (303) 906-2773 | SamDouglasEngineering@gmail.com

SummAry:

  • I am a hardworking and dedicated Mechanical Engineering graduate looking for an engineering position to start career. Working knowledge of Solid Works modeling and simulation, Six Sigma quality control, and ASME Y14.5-2009 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing standards. Wide skill set range across a variety of fields from electrical wiring to circuit troubleshooting to mechanical repair and diagnostic. HVAC, and plumbing experience in a non-professional environment as well.

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science: Major: Mechanical Engineering Technologies, Metropolitan State University of Denver, May 2016

  • ABET accredited certificate in Additive Manufacturing

  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) Certification

  • Worked with SolidWorks, AutoCad (2&3D drafting), Wolfram Alpha Mathematica, ProE, and LabView

  • Programming in C

Employment

  • Party attendant at Pump-It-Up from 2006 to 2011,  Handyman jobs, Taekwondo Instructor (Jan 2015- present, Two different programs ), Started own martial arts school: business management, advertising, interaction and personal relations, and record keeping were skills this move allowed me to develop and hone.

 

Experience, Skills, & Abilities:

  • Automotive repair and improvement including:

    • Removed, rebuilt, and reinstalled the transmission of a sports car solo.

    • Performed diagnostic tests and trouble shooting on vehicles systems :

    • Rebuilt wiring harnesses and cooling systems

    • Upgraded A/C systems to conform to modern standards

  • Computer systems design and repair

    • Built three computers from scratch, Repaired laptop motherboard,

  • 3D Printing

    • Designed and printed multiple items from snowboard bindings to watering can spouts to automotive boost tubes Rapid prototyping and designing experience. Performed tension and shear tests on printed samples.

      • Experience with a variety of types: FDM, FFF,  SLA,

      • Experience with a variety of materials: PLA, Liquid polymer, ABS, TPU, PETG

      • ABET Accredited Direct Digital Manufacturing certificate.

      • Learned mesh repair, model simplification, STL to part conversion and modification and design for additive process

 

  • Materials Science:

    • Tested materials for project use feasibility, including flexible and rigid plastics under adjustable loads at two temperatures.

  • Advanced Composites

    • Experience with hand layups  

      • Vacuum bagging of parts, Forming, epoxy/resin mixing, Making Fiber volume to resin volume ratio, calculations, Making Young’s modulus and Rule of Mixtures calculations. Learned how to develop and make a composite project.

    • Experience with

      • Carbon fiber, Aramid fiber, Fiber glass

      • Gained experience in making resin to matrix calculations, in preparing and laying sheets of material, in calculating the strengths of the material based on the fiber orientation, and preparing vacuum bags, and finding leaks in the vacuum bags.

  • Machine Design

    • Designed a 3-speed manual transmission for a 400 horsepower 400 ft-lb torque vehicle.

      • Completed simulation tests in Solid Works on gearing in major fields: Contact stress analysis, Bending stress analysis on teeth and shafts, Deflection of teeth and shafts. Learned the dangers of over-designing, and how to verify manual hand calculations using CAD programs and check mass predictions to determine feasibility.

  • Substantially contributed to a team effort to create a liquid to air heat exchanger designed to capture waste heat from a household water heater exhaust and store it for future use.

    • Executed flow analysis simulations in Solid works on heat exchanger design to assess effectiveness. Extracted 1 kw of power from simulated water heater exhaust. Learned how to troubleshoot an Arduino programed thermocouple data logger.

  • Two inventions being prototyped and patented.

  • Computer Aided Design

    • Solidworks, ProE, AutoCad, AutoCad Inventor, AutoCad Mechanical Engineer

      • SolidWorks to 3D printer modeling, FEA, Motion Analysis

  • Hobbies: Accomplished martial artist with a 4th degree black belt in Taekwondo and current master instructor

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