Andres Pelaez Pozo

*Design lead of a electrified turbocharging product family used to provide compressed air to Fuel Cell systems (including several power output and spec variations), coordinated the design team and supported application teams to adapt the generic product to customer requirements and specifications. - Performed activities related to housings and covers including Compressor and Turbine sides, and electromechanical design of Power Electronics, Electric Motors (rotor and stator), connections and sealings.

Project responsible for the development of actuators from early concept to mass production, including Intake/Exhaust actuators, Electric/hybrid clutch actuators and VCT. - Scheduling and planning of all activities. - FMEA moderator. - Detailed design of gears, spring, bearings, metal casted and plastic material parts including 1D and 3D design and simulations. - Creation of prototype and mass production drawings and BOM, including GD&T - Component, engine and car level testing, DV/PV testing.

- Leaded a kinematic and dynamic analysis of influence of flywheel-based recovery systems on motorcycle dynamics. Use of multi-body and Matlab simulation methods for such analysis. - Achieved satisfactory results to be the ground for future developments. - Designed a preliminary layout of a kinetic energy recovery system.

- Supported R&D team in mechanical design oriented tasks. - Updated SolidWorks EPDM mechanical database. - Developed an hydraulic elevator MATLAB-based simulator. - Developed thermal standard to be used by sales department regarding model's election. - Developed a dynamic analysis of an elevator's parachute prototype. - Adapted existing designs to new EN 81-20 standard.

- Designed the motorcycle frame in CAD and FEM tools. - Managed a group of 3 people. - Supervised the manufacturing and mounting process.

Related coursework: Fundamentals and Applications of Finite Element Method in Mechanical Analysis, Non-linear contacts and joints, Parameter-based and free model optimization, Fatigue and Fracture Thesis topic: Improvement of an additively manufactured subperiosteal implant structure design by finite-elements-based topological optimization. Final grade: 9.5/10

Cumulative GPA: 3.06. Thesis topic: Design of a kinetic energy recovery system for motorcycles. Final grade: 10/10. Background in mathematics, physics and engineering disciplines as Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics, Material Technologies. Specialization in Mechanical Engineering.