Mechanical design including concept design, concept selection, materials selection, layout design, stress analysis, heat transfer, detailed design, assembly synthesis, fits and tolerances, performance testing, failure analysis;
Design for manufacturing including needs analysis, specification, process selection, cost and value analysis, robust design, quality function deployment, design of experiments, response surface analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and design for X (machining, molding, assembly, etc.);
Simulation including constitutive modeling of materials, phenomenological modeling, development and solution of differential equations using finite difference and finite element methods, meshing, programming (C, C++, Pascal, BASIC, Fortran, Java, and other languages), numerical stability analysis, sensitivity analysis, stochastic and Monte Carlo methods, and interfacing;
Manufacturing process development including system decomposition, axiomatic systems design, subsystems analysis, process instrumentation, signal conditioning, data acquisition, systems integration, control systems design, development and tuning of control laws, validation, commissioning, deployment, and training;
Operations Management including manufacturing strategy, forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory control, supply chain management, production control systems, operations scheduling, project scheduling, facilities design, quality and assurance, reliability and maintenance
