My Work

During my college stay, I've worked in several personal and internships projects that have helped me understand more the engineering industry.

Thermo-Solar micro turbine.

My college friends and I created a microturbine that could be powered by using thermo-panels. I was in charge of designing in solid works all the necessary pieces for this creation as well as simulating using ANSYS the heat exchange of a heat exchanger to find the balanced amount of temperature needed at the end of the exchanger. I also helped building a prototype made of melted cans and reusable components.

Electric bicycle wheel.

A friend and I participated on a contest called: Crowd competition "international electric bicycle wheel challenge" organized by my school "Tecnologico de Monterrey" and ended up winning 2nd place and an electric scooter!. The objective was to to design a low-cost, high-energy-efficient electric bicycle wheel, which using locally available technological developments, will make it possible to convert standard bicycles into electrically assisted bicycles. Our electric bicycle wheel was designed using solid works, all the simulations such as FEA were also done there. Made a cost analysis comparing a normal tire to a 3D printer tire and also calculated some variables such as drag force, frictional force, Work, power, energy etc. to eventually calculate the state of charge of the battery with the help of motor, lithium batteries and distance travelled parameters. In order to calculate the distance travelled we needed to use the driving cycle of an 100% electric motor bike because there's still yet to exist a hybrid vehicle driving cycle.

ABS vs Fiberglass

My team and I made a production analysis for an Audi TT spoiler extension. The purpose was to compare which material (ABS or fiberglass) was better for the spoiler as we were thinking of using manufacturing methods such as injection molding to produce and sell a lot of low cost spoilers not only for the Audi's but to all old fashioned cars . Made a cost analysis as well as a 3D printed prototype that was designed using solid works to demonstrate how it will be implemented on the Audi TT. Finally, we made an injection molding simulation in the same software to demonstrate how the spoiler would be made.

Internship at Ternium

Worked as an Maintenance Engineer Intern at TERNIUM for 4 months. My project consisted of implementing a 2nd brake on bridge cranes that didn't have by original design. I've went to the area and climbed up to the cranes, with the assistant of an expert, to analyze closely how they work. Measured all the spaces between the crane as well as the size of each component to see if another brake could fit. After that, made a proposal of where to implement the 2nd brake, used solid works to design the trolley and made some simulations such as bolt connection, FEA and torque to verify that the size of the brake wouldn't affect the system overall. Another way I verified that it could work was by analyzing all the input parameters such as: crane's lifting capacity, gear ratio of the speed reducer, the crane reeving, the wire rope, geometry of the crane, the power and torque of the motor etc. to calculate all the variables such as torque on the brake and the respective size of this.

2nd Internship at Ternium

Worked my second semester at Ternium as a Project Engineer for 4 months. This internship was a totally different experience than my first semester as instead of focusing on the mechanical engineering part, I developed my communication, problem-solving and programming skills. I was in charge of three projects in which each one had a different area to learn.

First project consisted of developing a solution for the entry line unwinder machine for steel coils in the painting line at Ternium plant in Pesquería, this solution would increment the performance of the machine, helping the continuous process to have less failures. Overall, my responsibility required a lot of problem-solving and analytical skills as well as assertive communication skills with suppliers.

Second project consisted of working alongside operations area in order to find the best labeler machine possible to implement at the galvanizing line in the same plant, the objective of the project was to ensure that the standard ISO/TS 16949 was approved. It helped me develop my communication skills as it consisted mostly of reaching/meeting up with possible suppliers to tell them our problem, labeler specifications as well as project approval forms were made. Finally, the third project consisted of developing an "Email slicer" program made in python in which would receive certain number of emails, slice them by title, domain, username and date and send them filtered to their respective excel sheet depending on the project, this would help my boss to filter out his emails in an excel file in order to have greater management of important information that a supplier or worker could give him. This project required knowledge of API's, lists, dictionaries, data frames and libraries such as pandas and NumPy.

Global Collaborative Engineering Design

Worked alongside students from Virginia Tech, University of Darmstadt, Howard University and Shang Jiao Tong university in order to create a prototype for the EN V 2.0 Chevrolet electric networked vehicle. Our overall team consisted of 10 students in which were equally divided into 3 different sub teams. Each team was in charge of a different section of the car, and I was specifically part of the exterior design team and, with cooperation of 3 team members from Virginia tech, we were able to create an overall exterior design for the car. We were able to finish up the prototype thanks to constant communication with the interior and frame team in order to find a plausible solution that could make sense with everyone. In this project I extended my designing skills into a new software called NX, which most of the design was made there and also developed effective communication skills with my team members.