CHANG LIU

(401) 489 6186 100 Elena St., Apt. 420, Cranston, RI 02920 liuc@egr.uri.edu http://www.egr.uri.edu/~liuc

A dynamic, innovative, performance driven and highly motivated CFD engineer with more than 5 years of experience in fluid dynamics, thermal system, engineering design and analysis. Excellent problem solver with effective management and leadership qualities. Seeking research and development position in industry to utilize strong technical skills and professional experience. Experience Research Assistant, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Jan. 2010 Oct. 2010

Simulated extensively 2-D and 3-D unsteady oscillatory microfluidic flows. Conducted research on potential applications in micro mixer and heat pipe; Developed UDFs (User Defined Functions) and subroutines to implement dynamic mesh (C++ coding); Sep. 2006 Dec. 2009

Graduate Assistant, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Intensive engineering experience in microfluidic designing & modeling using SOLIDWORKS and FEA/CFD analyses using ABAQUS, ANSYS FLUENT & GAMBIT, and COMSOL; Designed the whole experimental setup and fabricated all the parts including a crank-syringe oscillator and a unique microfluidic multiple layer Lab-on-Chip device; Performed experimental study on flow streaming in micro channels and demonstrated the flow streaming phenomena in micro channels using FLUENT & GAMBIT; Experienced with imaging and optics such as SEM, fluorescence microscopy system and other data acquisition tools like stain gauge, pressure transducer, etc; Developed MATLAB programs for image/data post processing; Established and evaluated a computational model to study the transport of drug in the brain tissues based on an anisotropic porous media model and a multi-component species transportation model in FLUENT; Experienced with agarose gel as a surrogate of brain tissues Instructed class size of 60-70 students; (Teaching Assistant for undergraduate design course) Aug. 2003 May.2006

Associate Merchant Representative, Target Sourcing Services/AMC Shanghai

Communicated cross functionally with clients (buyers in Target), vendors (in China) and QC team; Developed products based on given objectives/concepts from Target, details improving/modifications according to clients request, issuing purchase orders, bulk production follow ups with vendors; Trained and supervised new employees / Interns; Sep. 2001 Jul. 2003

Research Assistant, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, BUAA, Beijing

Designed and conducted the flow visualization experiments to find out the separation planes and wake vortex characteristics Measured and analyzed the flow velocity distribution on the selected planes in the water tunnel experiments by PIV method. Simulated flows on different outline shapes (the angles, the W/L ratios, cross section shrinkage rates) on the drag effect to the after-body of the airplane by FLUENT & GAMBIT. Completed the project of anti-wind wall: flow visualization and pressure measurements in wind tunnel experiments; CFD simulations and flow pattern analyses with FLUENT and GAMBIT. Developed a user-friendly software to design wind turbines.

Education
PhD. GPA: 3.9/4.0, Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island Dec. 2009

M.E. GPA: 3.8/4.0, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, BUAA1 Jul. 2003 1 B.E. GPA: 3.8/4.0, Flying Vehicle Design and Applied Mechanics, BUAA Jul. 2001 Note 1: BUAA: Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Beijing 10083, China Computer skills Design and simulation: SOLIDWORKS, AUTOCAD, FLUENT & GAMBIT, COMSOL, ABAQUS. Programming Language: C, C++, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, MATLAB Other software packages: Maple, Tecplot, MS-Office Honors and Leadership Graduate assistantship winner of University of Rhode Island for 3 years University of Rhode Island Graduate Student Association Senator Vice president of University of Rhode Island Chinese Student Scholar Association Twice recommended for admission to BUAA waiving the required entrance examination due to outstanding performance (for undergraduate in 1997 and graduate school in 2001). First Prize, Freshman Scholarship, (50 out of more than 1700) at BUAA 1997. Second prize, People Scholarship, 2 out of every class, 1998. Third Prize, the 9th Fen Ru Cup contest of students extracurricular technological products. Coursework Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer by conduction, Computational method in fluid flow and heat, Convective heat transfer, Transport phenomena, Computational method in solid mechanics, Tribology, Advanced experimental methods in fluid and solid, Bio-Nano-Technology. Publications Z. Zhang, C. Liu, A. Fadl, D.M.L. Meyer, M. Krafczyk, H. Sun, Oscillatory streaming flow based mini/micro heat pipe technology, Journal of Heat Transfer, Jan. 2010, Vol. 132. Z. Zhang, A. Fadl, C. Liu, D.M.L. Meyer, M. Krafczyk, Fluid streaming in micro/mini bifurcating networks, Journal of Fluid Engineering, Aug. 2009, Vol. 131, article #1084501. Z. Zhang, A. Fadl, C. Liu, D.M.L. Meyer, A streaming flow based Lab-on-Chip platform technology, Proceeding of MNHT 2008 (Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer International Conference), Jan 6-9. 2008, Tainan, Taiwan. C. Liu, D.M.L. Meyer, Particle tracking velocimetry for diffusion coefficient calculation for drug delivery through brain tissues, Proceedings of the IEEE 34st Annual Northeast

Bioengineering Conference, 2008.

H. Zhang, C. Liu, The flow visualization of the different afterbodies of the airliner, The 5th National Academic Conference on Flow Visualization, Jul. 2002, page70-77.

Recommendations 1) Prof. D.M.L., Meyer, (Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, URI) (Faculty advisor for PhD degree) Phone: (401) 874-9292, Email: dmmeyer@egr.uri.edu, Website: http://mcise.uri.edu/meyer/ 2) Prof. Z. Zhang, (Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, URI) Phone: (401) 874-2355, Email: zhang@egr.uri.edu, Website: http://mcise.uri.edu/zhang/ 3) Prof. Mohammad Faghri, (Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, URI) Phone: (401)-874-5180 Email: faghrim@egr.uri.edu Website: http://www.mcise.uri.edu/faghri/

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