Name |
Robert Flowers |
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Chief Software Engineer |
Experience |
35 Years |
Degree |
ME |
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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J.V. Poplawski & Associates, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Software Engineer: designed and programmed the graphical user
interface (front end) for Windows versions of the COBRA family of
bearing analysis codes (COBRA-2G, COBRA-AHS, COBRA-EHL), and
designed the integration of COBRA codes with ANSYS for coupled
thermal/structural finite-element analysis.
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Rotor Bearing Technology and Software, Inc. (RBTS), Phoenixville,
Pennsylvania
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Software Engineer: developed a Windows graphical interface for the
ARMD rotordynamics package, and wrote a visualization system to
display 3D color-contour stress plots.
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Wrote a lab-instrument automation application using National
Instruments’ LabView package, a numerical methods library in Fortran
for interfacing to Wolfram’s Mathematica system, and with COMSOL.
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Prior to work in the software field, he held positions in the
industrial sector as:
- Statistician
- Quality Control Engineer
- Quality Assurance Supervisor
- Product Test Engineer
- Testing Lab Technician
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
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Lehigh University - Graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering
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24 credits beyond BS Mathematics with focus on Structural Dynamics
- Lehigh University - BS Mathematics
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Participated in standards development as a member of ASTM.