EDUCATION___________________________________________________________________________
INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES (INSA) OF LYON (Lyon, France)
LABORATOIRE DE DYNAMIQUE DES MACHINES ET DES STRUCTURES (LDMS):
Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering,
/January 2006
Thesis: Contribution to the analysis of the dynamic behavior of rotors
during transient speed - metrical and experimental approaches.
D.E.A. (Master's equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering, with Honors,
/September 2001
Thesis: Active control of an all terrain vehicle's hydraulic suspension by
neural networks.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DIPLOMA
/June 2001
Coursework included: vibration, rotating machinery & non linear dynamics,
active control, signal processing.
CLASSES PREPARATOIRES - MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS, 1997-1998 (Fontainebleau, France)
BACCALAUREAT - SCIENTIFIC, WITH HONORS, June 1996 (Fontainebleau, France)
EXPERIENCE__________________________________________________________________________
ROBERT BOSCH RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Palo Alto, California, USA)
/July 2009 - September 2009
Consultant: Generated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) meshes to be
used for heat transfer performance analysis of a heat cell (heat exchanger,
burner plates, ignition system, and air intake manifold).
THALES ALENIA SPACE (Cannes, France)
/September 2006 - August 2008
Mechanical engineer: Developed new instrument concepts for observation satellites
(lightweight active structures, deployable systems...). Invented a self
deployable tape-spring for space applications (PCT 15/500,945).
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, INSA OF LYON, (Lyon, France)
/November 2004 - February 2005
Laboratory assistant: Trained and graded undergraduate students on laboratory
activities concerning electricity and electronics.
EUROPEAN SECTION, INSA OF LYON (Lyon, France)
/2002 - 2004
Teaching assistant: Taught and graded statics, kinematics and dynamics as an
undergraduate program.
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, INSA OF LYON (Lyon, France)
/2001 - 2004
Laboratory assistant: Tutored and evaluated undergraduate students on laboratory
activities concerning mechanics of materials.
ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (EDF) - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (Moret/Loing, France)
/September 2000 - December 2000
Intern: Completed data processing of measurements from a liquid nitrogen freezing
test on a steal pipe, and optimized serigraphied cooking plates thermal stress.
ABB AUTOMATION (Champagne/Seine, France)
/July 1999
Draftsman: Worked with a team to design a test bench for quality testing of
alternators.
PUBLICATIONS______________________________________________________________
Hybrid tape-springs for deployable hexapod, Guinot, Bourgeois, Hochard, Cochelin,
Allezy, and Blanchard, presented at the 2009 AIAA/ASME Conferences (Palm
Springs, CA).
On the correction capability of a deployed tape-spring hexapod, Aridon, Blanchard,
Allezy, Remond, and Dufour, published in Mechanism & Machine Theory, Aug.
2008, Vol. 43(8).
Metric Damping of MDOF Systems in High Transient Motion, Al Majid, Allezy, and
Dufour, published in Vibration & Acoustics, Feb. 2006, Vol. 128(55), and
presented at 2003 ASME IDETC (Chicago, IL).
COMPUTER SKILLS_____________________________________________________________________
Programming/Simulation: MATLAB-Simulink/SimMechanics, FORTRAN, ADAMS
Finite Element Analysis: ANSYS (structural mechanics), NASTRAN (structural analysis,
buckling), GAMBIT/FLUENT (computational fluid dynamics),
ROTORINSA (rotor dynamics)
Computer Aided Design & Engineering: CATIA, AUTOCAD
Data Acquisition/Processing: LMS CADA-X, DSpace, ControlDesk
Microsoft Office Suite
LANGUAGES___________________________________________________________________________
ENGLISH: Fluent / FRENCH: Native language / GERMAN: Basic knowledge
IMMIGRATION STATUS__________________________________________________________________
Permanent Resident since June 2009. Will qualify for US citizenship in 2012.
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