Tadeh Avetian

Chief Engineer @ Karman Industries

About

15+ years of experience designing, fabricating, testing, operating and troubleshooting industrial scale turbomachinery. Experienced leader of multi-disciplinary teams, planning and executing complex hardware projects from ideation to prototyping, execution and delivery. Skilled in a wide variety of engineering disciplines with a passion for physics modeling and simulation, including FEA, CFD, aerodynamics, structural dynamics, rotor dynamics and multi-body dynamics, using commercially available software as well as self-written codes written in Matlab/Simulink, C/C++ and Python languages.

Country

United States

City

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Industry

Oil & Energy

Skill

Matlab, Solidworks, FEMAP, ANSYS, AutoCAD, MathCAD, Vibration, Modal Analysis, Microsoft Office, Rotordynamics, P&ID, Air Compressors, Engineering, FEED, Commissioning, Petrochemical, Rotating Equipment, Project Engineering, ASME, Finite Element Analysis

Experience

Chief Engineer

Karman Industries

2024-9 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Electrifying Global Manufacturing

Co-Founder and Advisor

Odys Aviation

2019-5 - Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

Odys Aviation makes advanced aircraft for short-haul regional operators. Regional travel is ready for a technology-enabled reset - limited direct routes, overburdened airports, and wasted time on the ground can all be a thing of the past. Our aircraft cuts door-to-door time in half, and is more profitable for the airline to operate.

Director Of Engineering, Turboexpanders

L.A. Turbine (LAT), A Chart Industries Company

2017-2 - 2024-9 · 7 yrs 8 mos

Adjunct Faculty

College of the Canyons

2014-2 - 2020-1 · 6 yrs

Part time instructor of various engineering courses.

Senior Mechanical Engineer & Analyst

Hyperloop One

2015-9 - 2017-2 · 1 yr 6 mos

- Lead dynamicist, responsible for modeling and simulation of vehicle and associated hardware in multi-body 6DOF simulation - Senior analyst supporting various structural FEA simulation activities

Mechanical Engineer

L.A. Turbine (LAT), A Chart Industries Company

2011-10 - 2015-9 · 4 yrs

Valencia, CA

−Lead a team of 5 engineers tasked with new and aftermarket equipment design −Responsible for all new and custom turboexpander designs −Designed auxiliary support system for all equipment (e.g. lube oil system, seal gas system) −Responsible for mechanical run testing of all new equipment

Mechanical Engineer (Rotating Equip)

Technip USA, Inc

2007-4 - 2011-10 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Prepared equipment requisitions, carried out vendor technical bid evaluations and reviewed vendor drawings/data. Reviewed inter-discipline drawings and documents (e.g. P&IDs, equipment layout, etc.) Witnessed equipment testing. Visited job sites for equipment troubleshooting.