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Local Address: 418 E Washington St, Apt 2 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Cell: 724-972-6687 EDUCATION Alan S. Githens [email protected] Permanent Address: 1127 Chapel Dr Greensburg, PA 15601 Home: 724-832-5831 Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Graduation: May 2017 Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Schreyer Honors College Graduation: May 2012 WORK EXPERIENCE Cumulative GPA 3.93 Graduate Student Research Assistant The University of Michigan Jan 2013 to Present Ann Arbor, MI Intern, Mechanical Engineering Otis Elevator Company May 2012 to Aug 2012 Farmington, CT § Developed and refined a new video analysis technique to better monitor lateral belt movement across a sheave (tracking) during elevator operation § Programmed the logic for a servo motor controller and linked the system to an external human-machine interface for a newly designed tracking tester § Simulated select belt tracking cases on multibody dynamics software § Wrote and exacted test plan to study belt tracking sensitivity based on different steering angles Undergraduate Research Assistant Center for Multi-scale Wave Material Interaction May 2010 to Apr 2012 University Park, PA § Wrote undergraduate honors thesis on the preliminary exploration of diamond film formation in open atmosphere using laser sustained plasmas § Safely operated class 4 5kW CO2 laser to perform research § Employed various metallography techniques to prepare tungsten carbide/cobalt, tungsten, and titanium samples for SEM analysis § Characterized the surface morphology of experimental specimens using SEM, optical microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy § Designed a high temperature cooling stage which earned runner-up for the 2012 P.B. Breneman Best Design in Research Award Intern, Glass Melting and Forming Engineering Corning, Incorporated May 2011 to Aug 2011 Corning, NY § Evaluated a commercial high-emissivity furnace crown surface treatment to improve glass melting efficiency and to lower fuel costs § Safely performed experiments and measurements in a 1600°C test furnace § Assembled, maintained, and operated newly acquired spectropyrometer equipment to gather emissivity and temperature data of refractory samples § Presented conclusive results to the department and created a poster presentation for the company-wide summer intern poster session LEADERSHIP/ ACTIVITIES UTC Ambassador, Penn State Engineering Ambassadors Team Leader, Rube Goldberg Competition Treasurer, Penn State Society of Engineering Science Student Envoy, Penn State Engineering Science and Mechanics Penn State Dance MaraTHON Invited Attendee, GE Student Leadership Conference HONORS AND AWARDS Schreyer Honors College Academic Excellence Scholarship Allegheny Energy Scholarship Richard P. McNitt Scholarship SKILLS Certified Solidworks Associate Raman Spectroscopy MATLAB Scanning Electron Microscopy Optical Microscopy Microsoft Office