Charles May Current Address Permanent Address

201 Northwestern Ave. Apt. 12 may31@purdue.edu 4044 Kenwood Ave.

West Lafayette, IN 47906 (847)-404-2895 Gurnee, IL 60031

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana GPA: 3.32/4.00 Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering December 2016

Work Experience

Eastman Chemical Company; Kingsport, Tennessee Selected for 3 semester Co-Op

Plant Engineering, World Wide Construction and Engineering May 2016 – Aug. 2016

Acetate Fibers and Tow Division

Developed device used for employee protection in hazardous area; created safeguard to eliminate

accidental use of machine while safety device is in place; utilized existing structures for integration with

minimal field construction.

Modeled custom brackets for upgrade on current system; met customer requirements while maintaining

level of adaptability for ease of merging designs; improvements will increase system’s life-span.

Durables and Medical Application Development Lab, Polymer Technology Division Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2015

Audited molding procedure in development lab; isolated and removed sources of significant variability;

implemented revised procedure; documented and trained lab: lowered variability from 15% to <2%.

Reverse-engineered drawings of customer part; conducted Mold Flow analysis of resulting mesh; combined with

knowledge of fitness for use criteria to recommend particular polymer grades to customer for production.

Expanded internal database of coefficient of friction behavior to include plastic-on-plastic information by

designing, optimizing, and conducting experiments on a versatile Tribometer instrumentation; provided support to

team in response to customer questions pertaining to parts in moving contact with one another.

Plant Engineering, World Wide Construction and Engineering May 2015 – Aug. 2015

Polymer Manufacturing Division

Designed tool to increase workplace safety for previously dangerous task; conducted finite element analysis on

part to ensure factor of safety; collaborated with a fellow engineer to increase the products manufacturability;

marketed design to department team leaders for Issue for Construction (IFC) approval.

Revamped existing support systems for manufacturing lines; enhanced factor of safety with foresight of future

process upgrades; customized designs for implantation with minimal to no dismantlement of adjacent processes.

Assisted senior engineers with rapid modeling via SolidWorks for high priority project; responsible for correct

part dimensioning given a basic design outline while providing sufficient minimum load requirements;

successfully completed tasks in less than a 24-hour turnaround time.

Leadership

CAD Camp July 2016

Aided in teaching middle and high school students computer aided design using Autodesk Fusion 360

Engineers for a Sustainable World Oct. 2013 – May 2015

Leader of Arduino based project to limit wasted household electricity; responsible for developing project plan,

delegation of sub-projects and team management.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Corporate Outreach Committee Feb. 2015 – May 2015

Liaison between Purdue chapter and industry; responsible for facilitating recruitment of members and for

planning plant tours in the area.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rube Goldberg Team Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2014

Led construction sub-team to zip a zipper in no less than 50 steps.

Skills

Software: SolidWorks, Creo Parametric 2.0, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Fusion 360, Catia, Matlab, Microsoft

Office Products, Basic Programming in C

Activities Avid basketball player, weightlifting, speaker building hobbyist, small carpentry projects