I am a mechanical engineer (EIT) with a background in automated robotics, prototyping, mathematical modeling, and vehicle dynamics. I pursue projects with a purpose, and excel when they span multiple disciplines.
Outside the office you will find me tinkering with arduino projects, wrenching on collector cars, mountain biking, wakeboarding, or snowboarding in the great mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
MIKE ROONEY P.Eng | MSc. | BSc.
Engineering manager with over 5 years of experience in technical product and mechanical design. Proficient in SolidWorks CAD and design for manufacturing principles. Successfully led multidisciplinary R&D teams, including multiple grant-funded project on robotic self-driving laboratories. Background in professional motorsports, emphasizing performance-driven results and logical problem-solving. Outside of work, I brainstorm while mountain biking, trials moto riding, surfing, or snowboarding, and I also serve as strata president of my townhouse complex.
Oxford Brookes University | Oxford, England
Master of Science in Motorsport Engineering, Graduated Sep 2014 with Distinction
University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC, Canada
Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering, Graduated May 2013
2020 to Present: Development Engineering Manager at Miru Smart Tech.
2020 to 2021: Leading a COVID response initiative surrounding intubation protection
2019 to 2022: Lead Design Engineer in the Berlinguette Research Group
2015 to 2018: Simulation and Support Engineer at Pratt & Miller Engineering ...
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CAD EXPERIENCE
SolidWorks & FEA Basic (10+ years)
Autodesk Inventor & Vault (2+ years)
Catia V5 / Surface Modeling (1 year)
NX 7.5 Simulations & FEA
MSC Adams
Hypermesh (beginner)
SOFTWARE
Microsoft Excel, Power Query,
Power BI
MATLAB & Simulink
Adobe Illustrator/
Photoshop/Premiere
Python 3 (Beginner)
Dymola Multibody Simulation
AutoCAD
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SKILLS
3D Printing (FDM, SLA, SLS)
Rapid Prototyping
TIG / MIG Welding (FSAE, race team, hobby experience)
Parametric CAD / GD&T
Mathematical Modeling
Mechanical Integration
Metal Fabrication
AUTHORSHIP & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Digital Discovery| May 2022
"We report a self-driving laboratory for adhesive material optimization. This autonomous laboratory combines a robot for preparing and testing adhesive bonds with a Bayesian optimizer to rapidly improve adhesive formulations. This system uses a single robot to perform a complex sequence of eight tasks including surface preparation, test specimen assembly, and bond strength evaluation..."
Nature Materials| Dec 2021
"Automated experiments can accelerate research and development. ‘Flexible automation’ enables the costand time-effective design, construction and reconfiguration of automated experiments. Flexible automation is empowering researchers to deploy new science and technology faster than ever before."
Science Advances | Abstract
"Discovering and optimizing commercially viable materials for clean energy applications typically takes more than a decade. Self-driving laboratories that iteratively design, execute, and learn from materials science experiments in a fully autonomous loop present an opportunity to accelerate this research process. We report here a modular robotic platform driven by a model-based optimization algorithm capable of autonomously optimizing the optical and electronic properties of thin-film materials by modifying the film composition and processing conditions..."
Arxiv | Abstract
"Self-driving laboratories present the opportunity to accelerate the discovery and optimization of materials.
A major challenge associated with this optimization process is that useful materials must satisfy multiple
objectives, where the optimization of one objective is often at the expense of another. The Pareto front reports the
optimized trade-offs between competing objectives. Here we report a self-driving laboratory, “Ada”, that defines
the Pareto front of conductivities and processing temperatures for palladium films formed by combustion
synthesis using various oxidants and fuels..."
Energy & Environmental Science | Nov 3 2021
"Electrocatalytic palladium membrane reactors (ePMRs) use electricity and water to drive hydrogenation reactions without forming H2 gas. In these reactors, a hydrogen-permeable palladium foil physically separates electrochemical proton generation in aqueous media from chemical hydrogenation in organic media. We report herein the use of the ePMR to electrolytically hydrogenate furfural, an important biomass derivative..."
