Capabilities

Capabilities

• » Professional characteristics that make TDE a great design partner.
  • Analytically-minded engineer with proven track record of working in multi-discipline teams to deliver successful systems and project results.
  • Ability and passion for obtaining true customer needs and requirements to ensure the right product is delivered.
  • Ability to communicate and relate with colleagues at all levels of the organization to achieve desired results.
  • Continual learner and achiever as evidenced by B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Systems Engineering.
• » Design proficiencies to get your projects designed.
  • Skilled in use of 3D CAD software to model concepts, explore alternatives, perform detailed designs, communicate with resources, and synthesize projects into reality.
  • Driven to utilize physical prototypes early and often to observe and interact with complex behavior that guides subsequent design.
  • Ability to use drafting, tolerances, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) to communicate design intent for manufacturing.
  • Experienced in automated system design.
    — Designer of systems using pneumatics, stepper motors, and servo motors for motion and force generation.
    — Designer of systems utilizing machine vision, multi-spectral, and hyper-spectral imaging applications and techniques.
    — Experience evaluating process flow, batch, and serial processing to deliver required process rate.
• » Manufacturing knowledge to get your projects made.
  • Experience working with different manufacturing trades to tailor designs to achieve best manufacturability.
  • Broad experience with different manufacturing techniques for custom parts fabrication including:
    — Mills, lathes, and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machining centers.
    — Water jetting and laser cutting.
    — Sheet metal fabrication.
    — Wire and volume electrical discharge machining (EDM).
  • Experience using additive manufacturing rapid prototyping technologies including:
    — Stereolithography (SLA).
    — Selective Laser Sintering (SLS).
    — Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM).
    — PolyJet.
    — Cast urethanes.

TDE uses SolidWorks 3D CAD Design Software.

Please contact TDE for additional information.