Eduardo Fraga

Implementation of process concepts in Piping planning. Leading project teams in multidisciplinary projects. Scheduling and Progress Monitoring Support. Technical clarifications with customers, suppliers and assembly companies. Communication with smaller engineering teams and technical draftsmen.

Power Plant Concept Engineering works. Basic design and calculations for Technical Bid purposes, notably for piping, main equipment and pressure vessels. Technical specifications for procurement. Supplier technical evaluation and cost estimation. Creation of Heat and Mass Balance diagrams and support the equipment sizing.

Power Plant Detail Engineering works. Mechanical calculations, notably Pipe Stress analysis, Piping, equipment and pressure vessel design for a 530MW Combined Cycle Power Plant project in Venezuela., according to several different ASME, EN, DIN and BS standards. Work as expat at Ferrostaal Power, Gmbh (Saarbrücken, Germany) between 2008 and 2010.

Detail Engineering works in Petrochemical Plants. Mechanical and structural calculations. Piping, equipment, pressure vessels and steel structures design, according to several different ASME, EN, DIN and BS standards.

Support National and European patent applications, notably defining claims.

Explicit dynamics, total transient, high deformations, large strains, and material failure analysis of Friction Stir Welding Process.

Engineer a Laser Cutting Machine with 3D design tools and FEA modelling.

Responsible for exam and approval of national patent applications, and for the reception of international patent applications.

Engineer in the Quality Department, more specifically in the Quality Assurance Department in the Azambuja Opel Factory, where I worked with problem solving and continuous improvement practices.

Thesis Title: ‘Computational Modelling and Validation of the Friction Stir Welding Process’

Degree’s Final course, with scholarship from PRODEP, which consisted of building a mobile robot, for the World Mobile Robotics Championship in the International Festival of Sciences and Technology in Bourges May of 1998, that took a first place in the free class.