Artho van der Westhuizen

• In addition to business management function the role maintains a technical and engineering focus. • Assist in business development activities by assessing technology readiness, providing operational and hardware cost estimates for proposed programs. • Company resource planning and management. • Oversight of Project Management, Systems Engineering, Thermo-fluids, Aero Structures, Avionics and Control and Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) disciplines.

• Responsible for management of CAD resources and the resulting manufacturing data pack. • Calculation of appropriate tolerances and stack up analysis. • Selection of appropriate suppliers. • Stress, displacement, thermal and modal calculations of rotating and casing components using Ansys suite of products. • Material selection, taking into consideration cost, thermal environment and stress. • Monitoring and controlling mass budget. • Preparation of design justification and definition files.

- Assisting with requests for proposal from customers - Project management of projects from kick off meeting, through development & qualification phases, up to hand over to production team. - Meeting product specification requirements - Engineering design and stress calculations, selection of materials and processing technology, tooling and process definition - Accurate and complete product configuration data-pack combination

- Management of laboratory equipment - Material structural property testing - Structural frequency analysis - Noise measurements - Teaching of practicals to students Involvement included working with students as well as several commercial customers

Advanced Strength of Materials Advanced Fluid Dynamics Advanced Dynamics Failure modelling of composite structures (LS-Dyna)