Design Engineer Quality Control

Eric Menke

United States Citizen

630-***-**** • acgq98@r.postjobfree.com

**** ******** **. • Wheaton, IL 60187

EDUCATION

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN GPA: 3.37/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering May 2014

Minors: Computer Graphics Technology and French

Specialized Courses: Principles of Turbomachinery, Principles of Dynamics, Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics,

Orbit Mechanics, Satellite Design, Mechanical Behavior of Materials

Language Skills: Fluent in French, two years of Japanese

Technical Skills

Proficient in CATIA V5

• Part Design, Assembly Design, Generative Shape Design, Generative Sheetmetal Design, DMU

Kinematics, Generative Structural Analysis, Product Functional Tolerancing & Annotation, Drafting

Experienced in MATLAB

Basics of Photoshop, InDesign, XFOIL, STK 9, ANSYS, and NX 7.5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Tutor: September 2012 - April 2014, Part Time

• Aeromechanics, French, Precalculus, Calculus I & II

Thermodynamics Grader August 2009 - April 2010, Part Time

Bremen Castings Inc., Bremen, IN

Roving Inspector: March 2011 - January 2012, Full Time

• Verified casting grind quality during and after grinding

• Responsible for scrapping defective castings and for recording both scrapped and produced castings

• Performed Brinell hardness tests on castings before approving and scaling them for shipment

• Acted as assistant to the leadman and filled in as leadman in his absence

• Trained new operators regularly and one new leadman

• Volunteered for extra shifts in the machine shop on Sundays

Grinder: September 2010 - March 2011, Full Time

• Ground castings according to customer specifications (robotically and manually)

• Recognized for attention to quality and detail with a promotion to quality control

DESIGN PROJECTS

Senior design lunar settlement project

• Leader of the radio interferometer team and active member of four other teams

• CAD lead for the rover team

Schlieren photography device planning and assembly

• Researched and purchased lenses with four classmates to construct a Schlieren photography device for

shockwave analysis at the aerodynamics lab’s supersonic wind tunnel

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