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Steve Truttmann

MAE Laboratory Operations Officer

Awards

Education and Certifications:

  • Mechanical Engineering Technology, Algonquin College
  • Red Cross Emergency First Aid, Naloxone Training, WHMIS
Overview: 

  • Supervision of engineering laboratory technical support staff
  • Coordinate and control laboratory operations supporting undergraduate, research, and contract activities
  • Promote safety within the laboratory environment
Areas of Expertise:

  • Training undergraduate/graduate students, researchers, and technical support staff
  • Undergraduate lab development
  • Design, fabrication, and instrumentation of specialized test equipment
  • Troubleshooting mechanical and electrical systems
  • Destructive and non-destructive testing of materials and components such as bending, shear, axial, torsional, quasistatic, high strain rate, impact (blunt and ballistic), and fatigue.
  • Setup and operation of servo-hydraulic universal testing machines (MTS load frames)
  • Metallography
  • Welding (MIG, TIG, Stick)
  • General machining
  • Woodworking, general carpentry, and construction
  • Health and Safety
Lab Spaces and Department Resources:

  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering laboratories within the buildings of EDC, Mackenzie, Minto, Canal, and VSIM.
  • Assignment of work to departmental technical lab staff

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