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OCTAVIO MELCHOR LUCERO, MsCE, P.E. [email protected] EDUCATION . M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso 1993 Thesis: Development of a prototype expert system for damage assessment of structural concrete elements B.S. Civil Engineering, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez 1987 Automatic undergraduate degree conferred due to high GPA PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Texas State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers 95059 American Society of Civil Engineers - Member PROFESSIONAL AREAS OF INTEREST . 2004 2001 . Multi-disciplinary research (basic / applied) to national defense Computer applications and Artificial Intelligence Structural Mechanics, Mathematics, Probability and Statistics, Structural Engineering RESEARCH/ACADEMIA EXPERIENCE . February 2007 – present The University of Texas at El Paso (USA) December 2008 – May 2012 FAST Center- Interim Project Manager Monitored 25 tasks to be conducted within budget (ranging between $13k and $236k) and allotted schedule (ranging between 2.5 and 18 months) Co-wrote research proposals Interacted with clients via telecons Supervised students (UG and G) working on some tasks Streamlined and maintained employee timekeeping system October 2007 – May 2012 FAST Center-Coordinator/ Staff engineer/ Principal and Co-Principal Investigator Study of Probabilistic Approach for ISS Life Assessment: Phases II-III, Boeing, Contract No.420188, (18 mos.). Nitrogen/Oxygen Recharge System Phase II (Boeing), Contract No. 9H11251 (8 mos.). ARIS Sustaining Engineering – Conversion of On-Orbit Procedures and Submittal of Change Package (Boeing), Contract No. 9H10471 & 9H11276, (19 mos). Nitrogen/Oxygen Recharge System Trade on Spherical vs. Cylindrical High Pressure Tank Mass (Boeing), Contract No. 8H10365, (2 mos). Modeling of Novel Projectiles for Lethality Enhancement of Near-Miss Warheads, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Extension of Grant No. HQ0006-05-C-0033 (6 mos.). Crew Exploration Vehicle, Phase II – Analysis, Design and Manufacturing of Mechanism Test Fixtures Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co (LMSSC), ORION-SOW-07-033, Contract 8100001156, (8 mos.). February 2007 – September 2007 Civil Engineering Department, Coordinator/ Research engineer Modeling of Novel Projectiles for Lethality Enhancement of Near-Miss Warheads, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Grant No. HQ0006-05-C-0033, (3 mos.). Dust-Impact Risk Study for Solar Probe – Risk Reduction Phase, NASA Grant No.NAS5-01072, (5 mos.) OCTAVIO MELCHOR LUCERO, MsCE, P.E. December 1995 – June 2004 The University of Texas at El Paso (USA) September 2001 – June 2004 FAST Center for Structural Integrity of Aerospace Systems, Research engineer Modeling Hypervelocity Impacts for Kill Enhancement of Ballistic Missile Warheads, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Grant No. F49620-02-1-0076. December 1995 – December 2002 Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems (formerly CHMR), Research engineer/Co-principal investigator Development of Methods and Materials to Accelerate Construction and Opening of PCC Pavements, TxDOT, Study 0-4188 Development of a Comprehensive, Rational Method for Determination of Remaining Life of Existing Pavements, TxDOT, Study 0-1711 Automated Routing of Overweight Vehicles, TxDOT, Studies 0-1823 and 0-1482 September 1999 – July 2001 Institute for Policy and Economic Development (formerly PPRC), Coordinator Automated Routing of Overweight/Oversize Vehicles through the El Paso District, Contract No. D009860, NAFTA-ITI Task L, (Subcontract). TEACHING EXPERIENCE . The University of Texas at El Paso (USA)-Lecturer BE2434 – Mechanics I CE3343 – Structural Analysis I BE3373 – Engineering Probability and Statistics CE2434 – Structural Analysis II (SP ’06, F ’03, SM ‘95) (SP ‘06) (SP ’04, SP ‘03) (SP ‘96) Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)-Faculty Structural Design: Concrete I (F ’94, SP ‘94) ENGINEERING PRACTICE . July 2004 – January 2007 Self-Employed: Joint collaborations and voluntary services in consulting projects August 1991 - December 1995 Self-Employed: Private consulting to several local clients Aug 1991 – Sep 1994, May 1995 – Dec 1995 Carlos Figueroa Structural Design: Collaborator October 1994 - April 1995 November 1990 - August 1991 Ingeniería y Estructuras Fronterizas S.A.: Chief of structural engineering March 1987 - November 1990 Grupo Bermúdez, Construction Division Project engineer and field engineer July 1989 - November 1990 3- story 3,135 m2 office building. Chief of Quality Control Department & Special projects March 1987 - August 1989 January 1985 - September 1995 Angulo y Asociados S.C. Collaborator (several occasions) August 1993 - September 1995 Engineering student in training (part time) January 1985 - August 1986 2 OCTAVIO MELCHOR LUCERO, MsCE, P.E. AWARDS . ASCE Best of Session Paper Fall 2000 Meeting, "Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Routing GIS", El Paso Tx. 10/06/2000. Also, nominee for the Hawley Award. TxDOT Top Ten Innovations Award 2000 for “Automated Routing of Overweight Vehicles,” (10/2000). PUBLICATIONS (Relevant) . Melchor-Lucero, O., Carrasco, C. (2008). Computational Technique to Assess Warhead Lethality against Ballistic Missile, published in J. of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 22, No.4, October 1, 2009, pp. 354-364. Melchor-Lucero, O., Carrasco, C., Espino, L., Fernández, A., and Osegueda, R. (2007). Computer Modeling for a Generalized Approach to Measure Impact Damage, published in J. of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 133, No. 3, March, 2007, pp. 299-307. Melchor-Lucero, O., Weissmann, J., Wanyan, Y. and Nazarian S. (2004). Feasibility of Expediting Concrete Pavement Construction Using Alternative Pavement Sections. Paper #04-3496 published on CD for TRB 2004 Transportation Research Record series. Melchor-Lucero, O. and Roberto A. Osegueda. (2000). Routing Super-Heavy Vehicles Using ArcView, published in Environmental Systems Research Institute web page , June http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc00/professional/papers/PAP440/p440.htm. Osegueda R., García-Díaz, A., Ashur, S., Melchor-Lucero, O. Chang, S-H., Carrasco, C., Kuyumcu, A. (1999). GISBased Network Routing Procedures for Overweight and Oversized Vehicles, published in J. of Transportation Engr., Vol. 125, No.4, July-August, pp.324-331. PRESENTATIONS (Relevant) . “Dust Impact Risk Study for Solar Probe – Risk-Reduction Phase”, presented to Applied Physics Lab - John Hopkins University, June, 2007, El Paso TX, with C. Carrasco. “Damage Characterization on Bumper Plates When Subjected To Hypervelocity Impacts”, presented at Seventh U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics in Advances in Computational Structural Mechanics for Department of Defense Applications, July 28-30, 2003, Albuquerque NM, with C. Carrasco, R. Osegueda, L. Espino, and A. Fernandez. “Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Routing GIS”, presented at ASCE – Texas Section Fall Meeting 2000, October 4-7, 2000, El Paso TX., with Osegueda, R. “Routing Super-Heavy Vehicles Using ArcView”, presented at ESRI’s User International Conference 2000, June 2630, 2000, San Diego CA. with Osegueda, R. TECHNICAL REPORTS & DOCUMENTS (Relevant) . Ferregut, C., Melchor-Lucero, O., Garcia, J. (2012 and 2011). Study of Probabilistic Approach for ISS Structural Life Assessment, Phases III, and II, Final Reports submitted to The Boeing Company, FAST Center, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, (246 pp., and 124 pp.), April. Carrasco, C. J., Melchor-Lucero, O. and Castellanos, F. (2009). Modeling of Novel Projectiles for Lethality Enhancement of Near-Miss Warheads, Final Report submitted to Missile Defense Agency (MDA), FAST Center, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 46 pp. March. Carrasco, C., Osegueda, R., Melchor-Lucero, O. and Espino, L. (2004). Modeling Hypervelocity Impacts for Kill Enhancement of Ballistic Missile Warheads, Final Report to Missile Defense Agency and USAFOSR. FAST Center for Structural Integrity of Aerospace Systems, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 276 pp., October. Melchor-Lucero, O., Weissmann, J., Wanyan, Y. and Nazarian S. (2003). A Study of Expediting Construction of Rigid Pavements in Urban Areas by Using Alternative Pavement Sections. Research Report 4188-3. Center for Highway Materials Research, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 152 pp., August. Melchor-Lucero, O and Osegueda R. (2000). Conversion of Automated Routing of Overweight/Oversize Vehicles to ArcView, Research Report 1823-2F, Center for Highway Materials Research, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 68 pp., May. 3