Ray Young | Portfolio

SolidWorks Designer

December 2009

As a SolidWorks designer at CTI, my job was to create representational models and assembly drawing packages for client review and international manufacture. While working with the company, I created three design packages based on their diverse portfolio of products. Two of these products, an adjustable book stand assembly and a sliding caliper used to measure infant head diameter, are depicted in the left-hand column.

Creative Technology Industries is a small design firm in Foxboro, MA. They specialize in accelerated product development from concept to production. My 40 hour contract with CTI was completed during December 2009.

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Product Devlopment Intern

August 2009 - December 2009

At Proteus Design I was been able to participate in a variety of different aspects of the product development process, including brainstorming, design for injection molding, and benchmark testing and analysis. In addition, I gained proficieny in master modeling and surface modeling techniques using Pro/Engineer. The accompanying image depicts an SLA model of a blender that I helped to create in Pro/Engineer.

Proteus Design is a medium-sized design firm in Cambridge, MA. They work with a diverse set of clients to implement creative solutions to a variety of challenging problems. I started working at Proteus in August 2009 and have worked approximately 10-20 hours per week since then.

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Continuous Improvement Engineer

July 2007 - August 2008

While working at LFI, inc. I devised a quantitative process for carrying out the quality inspection of one of their manufactured parts. In order to do this, I designed and implemented the test setup, created and executed testing procedures for gathering data, and developed a program in MATLAB to generate and interpret the results. The accompanying video briefly describes the part that was being manufactured and exhibits one of the earlier test setups.

LFI, inc. is a privately held mid-sized company based out of Smithfield, Rhode Island. They utilize laser manufacturing technology to create precision parts for the medical and aerospace industries. I began working at LFI, inc. after my junior year at Olin College during July 2007 and then continued part-time (approx. 8 hours per week) during my senior year and into the summer of 2008.

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Mechanical Designer

June 2007

I was brought into Sheaumann, inc. on a temporary assignment to aid them with a new product that they were about to launch. In this role, I functioned as the sole acting mechanical engineer and worked to realize their designs for a high-powered laser chip module. To accomplish this, I generated three-dimensional models as well as mechanical drawings and interacted with vendors to facilitate manufacturing.

Sheaumann Laser, inc. is a small privately held corporation based out of Marlborough, MA. They design and assemble high-powered fiber-coupled laser modules for a variety of industry applications. I joined Sheaumann after my junior year at Olin College and worked there full-time during June 2007.

Finite Element Analyst

Summer 2006

In partnership with the Goddard Space Flight Center, I worked with a group of four Olin students to aid researchers working on the ongoing Constellation X mission, a large collecting area X-ray observatory. The goal of our project was to analyze the effect of super cooling (300 K to ≈ 50 μK) on the superconducting transition temperature of one pixel of an x-ray microcalorimeter array.

To accomplish this, we began by considering several simplified analytical cases. We then progressed to generating a detailed three-dimensional model and performing FEA calculations using COMSOL multiphysics. Ultimately, we were able to deliver a comprehensive final report with several detailed stress maps considering multiple different configurations of the sensor.

The Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA space research laboratory located just outside of Washington, D.C. They are the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the world dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System and the Universe, via observations from space. I worked on this project part-time (approx 20 hours per week) after my sophomore year at Olin College during the summer of 2006.

Junior Project Engineer

Summer 2004

During my internship at Otis Elevator Company, I provided support for lead project engineers by conducting reliability testing of elevator components. In addition, I taught myself Pro/Engineer and began to assist with mechanical design by helping to create three-dimensional models and mechanical drawings.

Otis Elevator Company is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation and the leading manufacturer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways worldwide. I worked full-time at their North American headquarters just outside of Hartford, CT after my freshman year at MIT during the summer of 2004.