Education and Certifications:
- Mechanical Engineering Technology, Algonquin College
- Red Cross Emergency First Aid, Naloxone Training, WHMIS
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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
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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
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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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