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Elizabeth
ecantando@gmail.com
703-999-5204
1102 Kentwood Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Electromechanical Engineer
25 years experience W2
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  • 10 years of experience in Power converter circuit/architecture analysis and detailed exposure on Experience in control loop
  • Experience designing and building flight hardware for NASA, permanent magnetic for Kollmorgen motors, as well as prototyping specialized tools for materials science research.
  • 3 years of experience on Circuit simulation PSIM and MATLAB
  • RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
    • Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy at Arizona State University-work for FabMetrix supported the semiconductor industry, providing fast turnaround atomic resolution TEM imaging of functional materials for defect analysis research for manufacturing and reliability.
    • Virginia Tech as TEM Specialist for NanoEarth executed nano-environmental geology research for academic and industrial clients on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
    • Experience in Designing custom motors featuring finite element and field weakening analyses using MotorCAD and SimCenter MAGNET for maximum torque
    • Kollmorgen- was an electromagnetic design engineer responsible for custom electromagnetic motor design, modernizing documentation for multiple product lines, and a paralegal researcher on the Patent Review Board.
    • Published research on a wide variety of topics including metallurgy, environmental geology, and functional semiconductors.
    • Led successful research projects to synthesize, characterize, and optimize advanced materials for improved performance and manufacturability.
    • Strong understanding of physics, engineering, and crystallography and an aptitude for mechanical design.
  • Hands on experience in Designing and operating micro-tensometer to study Ni-Ti shape memory alloys for thermoelastic cooling
  • Designed, manufactured, and assembled flight hardware for the scientific experiment, ARCADE: the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Diffuse Emissions, including machining, electrical wiring, thermal design, testing, and flight operations 
  • Technical Skills: Windows and MAC Operating Systems, Graphic Design, Adobe Photoshop, Video Production and Animation using Adobe Premier Pro,  Microsoft Office Suite, SolidWorks and AutoCAD
  • Education: Ph.D. in Engineering Physics at the University of Virginia, GPA: 3.6 out of 4.0, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, minors in Math and Physics at Virginia Tech, GPA: 3.2 out of 4.0​

Experience
Education
Doctoral in Engineering Physics
University of Virginia, 2004 - 2010


Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering
Virginia Tech, 2000 - 2004
Minor: Math and Physics
Skills
Analysis
2024
12
Employ
2018
9
3D CAD
2018
6
ARM
2018
6
AutoCad
2018
6
FOCUS
2018
6
Marketing
2018
6
Radiology
2010
6
Engineering
2024
5
Physics
2007
5
Command
2003
2
Electrical Engineering
2024
2
Electrical Wiring
2003
2
Electricity
2003
2
Mechanical Engineering
2024
2
MS Dynamics 365
2010
2
React.js
2010
2
Adobe Photoshop
0
1
Architecture
0
1
Automotive Mechanic
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1
Documentation
0
1
FAST
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1
Functional
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1
Graphic Design
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1
Industrial
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1
Manufacturing
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1
Matlab
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1
Mechanical Design
2024
1
Microsoft Office
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1
Prototyping
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1
Simulation
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1
Solidworks
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1
System Design
2024
1
Windows
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1
Publications
(Over
, 2024
"Gadolinium Enrichment in Association with the Magnetic Fraction of Fly Ash: Real or an Illusion " Coal Combustion and Gasification Products
, 2024
"Rare Earth-bearing particles in fly ash carbons: Examples from the combustion of eastern Kentucky coals."
, 2024
Characterization of manganese sulfide inclusion surfaces in
, 2024
of graphene coated copper surfaces
, 2024
"Stormwater green infrastructures retain high concentrations of TiO2 engineered
, 2024
"PCN-222 metal-organic framework nanoparticles with tunable pore size for nanocomposite reverse osmosis membranes."
, 2024
"Insights into the biogeochemical cycling of cobalt: precipitation and transformation of cobalt sulfide nanoparticles under low-temperature aqueous co
, 2024
"Microwave-Assisted synthesis of Anisotropic copper-silver nanoparticles."
, 2024
"Dispersible colloid facilitated release of organic carbon from two contrasting riparian sediments."
, 2024
"Detection and quantification of engineered particles in urban runoff."
, 2024
"Characterization of stoker ash from the combustion of high-lanthanide coal at a Kentucky bourbon distillery."
, 2024
"Nanoparticulate nickel-hosting phases in sulfidic environments: effects of ferrous iron and bacterial presence on mineral formation mechanism and sol
, 2024
"Automated High Precision Strain Measurement Using Nanobeam Diffraction Coupled with Precession." Microscopy and Microanalysis
, 2024
"Magnetoelectric relaxation in rhombohedral LiNbO3-CoFe2O4."
, 2024
"Exchange Coupling Nanophase Fe-Pd Ferromagnets Through Solid State Transformation."
, 2024
"Tweed and Nanoscale Cubic and Tetragonal Phase Mixtures in Decomposing Alloys: the Pseudospinodal Concept."
, 2024
"Electron Microscopy Study of Hypo-Stoichiometric Fe-Pd Nanocomposites Resulting from CR Thermomechanical Processing."
, 2024
Phenomena 172-174 356
, 2024