Zehao You

CAREER AND ACADEMIC INTERESTS

· Model Design (SolidWorks) · Programming (Java & MATLAB) · Finite Element Analysis (ANSYS Workbench)

· Visual Programming (LabVIEW) · Robotics · Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Control System) · R-GEN 3D Bioprinters

WORK EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Grader, Material Science & Engineering Department, Lehigh Univ.

· Assisting Prof. Vinay Mehta in grading for homework, quizzes, and exams.

Undergraduate Assistant, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Lehigh Univ.

• Worked as Departmental Undergraduate Assistant for ME 10: Graphics for Engineering Design.
• Assisted Prof. Meng-Sang Chew in guiding students with SolidWorks, holding recitations, and doing the grading.

Intern, FUDEBA Mechanic and Electric Industry Co., Ltd, Fuzhou, China

• Used SolidWorks to design a wheeled device for car paint jobs and an annular mold for auto parts.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Institute: STEM Summer Institutes

Project: Establishing Printability Tests to Assess 3D Printability of Bioinks Such as Pluronic and Alginate-CaCl2.

Approximate Time Spent: 40 hrs./ wk., 10 wks./ yr.

Research Mentor: Prof. Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, Health, Science, & Technology Building at Lehigh

• Prepared different bioinks including 40% of Pluronic and Alginate-CaCl2 solution.
• Designed parts and structures in Shaper or SolidWorks and control the 3D bioprinter with R-GEN Controller.
• Optimized printing parameters such as pressure and temperature and made protocols for publishing Jove article.

CORE COURSE PROJECTS

Control Systems (MATLAB)

• Studying classical and modern linear control systems, including root locus, frequency response, state space, and digital control techniques with extensive use of computational methods.

Capstone Design Project I & II (SolidWorks)

• Working to design and implement a shaft-driven 4WD system for Lehigh Baja cars for cross-country races.

Introduction to Programming (Java)

• Studying the use of Java programming language for problem-solving and study data types, control flow, methods, arrays, objects, inheritance, and breadth of computing.

Advanced Mechanics of Materials (SolidWorks, ANSYS Workbench, MATLAB)

• Conducted analysis on three-dimensional stress and strain transformations, two-dimensional elasticity, contact stresses, stress concentrations, energy, and variational methods.
• Designed and built an airfoil with finite element analysis and laser cutting tools.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory III (MATLAB Simulink, Arduino Kit)

• Used MATLAB Simulink to design a PID controller for balancing a motorcycle model built from Arduino kit.

Applied Engineering Computer Methods (Arduino, MATLAB)

• Designed, wired, and simulated an electrical circuit of a door security system, with coding done in Arduino.
• Used MATLAB to program and solve engineering problems.