Industry Experience

JELD-WEN, Inc., Product Engineer

June 2015 - June 2018

As a product engineer at Jeld-Wen, Inc., I was responsible to manage simple to complex design projects and identify the requirements of product development projects. I am responsible for assisting in the drawing, CAD and 3D modeling standards and performed preliminary drawing and check before the drawing is submitted, to then reviewed by the manufacture engineers and plant personnels. The main goal was to ensure the product designs were manufacturing friendly. I actively participated as a member on multi-disciplinary team. Aside from the design task, I involved in coordinating the testing and certification of all the products.

Co-assigned 17+ patents

Project

Self-sustaining Water Purifier

September 2014 - June 2015

The purpose of this project is to design and complete a working prototype of an original self-sustaining water purifier. This system will aid in providing a reliable source of distilled water that can then be used for desired purposes within the society. The design will utilize the natural process of evaporation and condensation to purify the water. Unclean water will be gravity fed through a sediment filter before reaching a boiler that will use a heating element and a parabolic solar concentrator for boiling. Once the water is boiled, it will be collected in a condenser to be reformed into water. The major design portions of the project will include: Boiler (vacuum tube based design) -- Condenser (utilizing convective heat-transfer to remove heat) -- Efficiency system (tracking and automation for increased efficiency of the Evaporation Cycle). Solar panels will be providing any extra energy needed for the heating element, and tracking system. The end result will be to have a unit that can turn unpurified water to distilled water in a sustainable manner. 

Advisors : Prof. Dongbing Lee, Prof. Feng Shi
Collaborator : David Scheurmann, Matthew LaCount, Emri Arronggear, Appener Kambu
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