Suspension Performance Engineer at Honda R&D Americas
Primary and Secondary Ride Comfort
- Root Cause analysis to identify Suspension/Ride comfort related issues
- Transfer path identifation including path contribution
- Countermeasure proposal and verification
- Identify air bourne and structure bourne suspension noises to propose effective countermeasures
- Vehicle Sensitivity to tire non-uniformity
- Define Uniformity sensitivity targets using current prototypes and competitor cars as reference
- Subjective feeling point correlation with objective data
- Matlab was used to identify trends across all tested cars to identify strengths and weaknesses of various competetior cars
- Identify and quantify various un-common ride complaints and issues including powertrain response
- Impact Harshness testing and analysis
- Impact peak G and Aftershake analysis using LMS Test Lab
- Standard Ride tests for competitor benchmarking and prototype verification
- Data aquisiting and analysis
- Update test and analysis procedures to improve metrics and subjective feeling correlation
- Identification of test surfaces for various ride events to improve test procedure and subjective correlation
- Identification and purchasing of appropriate test transducers to improve test results
- Manage test equipment
Subjectively rate and identify Ride and Handling characteristics of competitor cars
Tools/Skills
- LMS Scadas Mobile Data Acquisition system with transducers from PCB Piezotronics
- Data analysis with LMS Test Lab and MATLAB
- Experienced in managing and running large 150+ channel acquisition setup
- Time and frequency domain animations in LMS Test Lab to visualize resonances and mode shapes
- Scripting in MATLAB to identify trends in multi vehicle controlled tests to define tire non-uniformity sensitivity targets
- Identify and Quantify Suspension noise and Ride quality issues
- Troubleshooting LMS/PCB equipment issues
- Define DOE and conduct controlled tests to identify and recommend countermeasures
Seminars/Training
Siemens/LMS
- Rotating Machinery (08/15/2017)
- Siemens, Troy, MI
- Transfer Path Analysis (08/16/2017)
- Siemens, Troy, MI
- Sound Engineering (08/17/2017)
- Siemens, Troy, MI
- Modern Driving Dynamics (08/18/2017)
- Siemens, Troy, MI
- Modal Analysis (04/12/2017)
- Honda R&D Americas, Columbus, Oh
Drivers Training
- Honda Level 1 Driver's Training (06/15/2015)
- Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH
- Honda Level 2 Driver's Training (06/07/2016)
- Transportation Research Center Inc, East Liberty, OH
- Honda Level 3 Driver's Training (08/09/2018)
- Transportation Research Center Inc, East Liberty, OH