Bin Luo

• Worked as a key member for one of the most successful 3D Nand PECVD products, Strata. • Independently owned or led projects of component, sub-system, and system level. Drove the projects from concepts to production release. Worked closely with electrical engineers, software engineers, test engineers, supply chain, suppliers, and customer service and finance groups.

• Owned the design and maintenance of two key components, Showerhead and Ceramic Ring. • Designed, tested and released tons of parts made from metal machining, sheet metal, casting, injection molding, welding, etc., and a variety of components/sub-systems including thermal management systems, gas and liquid delivery systems, vacuum sealing, piezo controller, etc.

Tensegritive Robot Design and Machining • Generated several concepts of tensegrity robot with teammates, and selected the spine robot for prototype. • Participated on the detail design and produce of the first prototype: defined the connection between rope and the body, designed the gear box and pulley, and selected the motor.

Design of 3D Printer's printing head settlement • Generated four concepts for high-precision, user friendly, and cost effective 3D printing head settlement. • Optimized and finalized the proposed design and verified the safety factor by stress analysis.

Products' Final Quality Test & Mechanical Design • Worked on the final test of the best sell product - S3eTM Cell Sorter, detected and resolved all kinds of issues that effected the product’s performance. • Provided proposals to design engineers for product’s reliability, serviceability, and DFA improvement.

• Redesigned the chamber open mechanism to avoid shocking between the shafts and slots during over-open (open to 93°) with a self-locking mechanism, and conducted structural FEA for design optimization and safety factor. • Developed the concept of an energy recycling system based on heat pump, which could potentially save 50% off the chamber’s heating power, and came up with a feasible design.

Design of High-Power Low-Cost Energy Storage System • Conducted a market analysis of energy storage products, confirmed the demand of our system, and chose BART's regenerative braking energy recovery as the first trial. • Conducted competitor analysis of flywheel-motor system with battery and supercapacitor, verified its advantage. • Designed three practical concepts of flywheel system's application on BART; their PBT were 6.9 yrs. 7.9 yrs. and 8.1 yrs. which were almost half of that of PG&E's design.

Research of Materials for Hydrogen Produce and Storage with Solar Energy • Designed and machined a photocatalysis test platform with Solidworks, which was made of Pyrex glass and Nafion® 117 and worked in vacuum or nitrogen environment. • Prepared two photocatalysts, TiO2-graphitic petal and Graphite doped by Boron & Nitrogen (CxByNy). • Tested the performance of the photocatalysts to produce H2 from H2O, and verified the validity of TiO2-graphitic petal with obvious open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current.

Enthalpy Difference Testing of Refrigerants • Conducted enthalpy difference testing of 5 new refrigerants to test their performance, provided data for customers to choose new generation of refrigerant. • Redesigned and machined the water supply system based on communicating vessel, saved the frequent entrance to the lab, made the testing more stable and saved energy by more than 5%. • Optimized the data processing system with Visual Basic and Excel, increased the work productivity by 50%.

Research of Phase Change Materials for Solar Energy Storage • Designed and built a 1-D heat transfer test platform, which was made of SST304 and Al6061 together with a bunch of thermal couples and a data recorder • Prepared three phase change materials: mixture of nitrates & expanded graphite, mixture of paraffin & expanded graphite, and metal foams infiltrated with paraffin • Tested these materials’ thermal conductivities on the platform, and their contact resistances with the platform.

Design of Refrigerator Driven by Heat from Exhaust Gas • Built a team and realized an innovative concept, NH3-H20 absorption refrigerator driven by heat from exhaust gas, and won a third award of national innovation competition. • Designed and built a temperature control system with step motor, crank-rocker mechanism and single chip microcomputer, controlled the refrigerating temperature by ±1°C with a range of -8 °C~10 °C. • Built a heat transmission system based on heat-tube, enhancing the heat transfer speed and stability, improved the heat transfer efficiency by 30%.

Graduated in May 2014 in Mechanical Engineer. Learned the advanced knowledge of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Design, Thermal and Energy Engineering. Finished Master Capstone Project, High-power Low-cost Energy Storage System Design, conducted a case study of BART's regenerative braking energy recovery. Conducted a research project: Study of Properties and Applications of Mycelium,

Graduate with honor in Mechanical Engineer. Learned the basic knowledge of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Design, Thermal and Energy Engineering. Participated in the research project Study of Phase Change Material for one and a half years, and have two papers published. Led the project Refrigerator Driven by Heat from Off Gas, got a patent for its temperature transfer and control system, and got a third prize with this project in the national competition. Worked as the president of school student union and led dozens of activities such as a welcome party for 1100 freshmen.

Worked on a project about water splitting from solar energy with the help of nano-photocatalyst.