Education:
 

Clemson University

Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering
 

National University of Singapore

GPA: 4.0/4.0

Master of Engineering, Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aug, 98 - Jun, 00
Thesis topic: Intelligent computational support for conceptual design
 

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

GPA: 3.6/4.0

Master’s program, Materials Engineering, Sep, 96 - Aug, 98
Thesis topic: Design of an intelligent system for Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)
 

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

GPA: 83.4/100

 Bachelor of Engineering, Materials Engineering, Sep, 92- Jul, 96
Final year project: Residual stress testing using ball indentation method.

Experience:

Research Scholar (08/98 – 06/00) National University of Singapore

• Conduct case study on a variety of products to study function and form relationships.
• Participate in RMM project, a collaboration of National University of Singapore, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and Temasek Polytechnic, to develop a rapid prototyping system for prosthetic socket fabrication.
• Reverse engineering and redesign a commercial electrostatic air cleaner.
• Study engineering data modeling and exchange between different systems using engineering information exchange standard, such as PDES/STEP.

• Assisting students in laboratory experiments.
• Marking of logbooks and laboratory reports.

• Experiment setup.
• Graded written reports, quizzes and homework.

• Conduct experiment on residual stress measurement and analysis using step-by-step hole drilling and X-ray diffraction method, analyze the effects of residual stresses on brittle fracture strength of welded structures, and propose methods to control welding residual stresses.
• Participating in an industrial project on welding residual stress measurement for large volume liquefied natural gas container collaborated with Jiangnan Ship-building (Group) Co., Ltd, a leading Shipbuilding Company in China.

Awards:

• Research scholarship for graduate studies at National University of Singapore.
• Excellent Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, awarded to top 5% graduating seniors. 1996.
• Recipient of the first grade Andersen scholarship. 1996
• Excellent student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, awarded to top 10% undergraduates, 1995.
• People scholarship for all four years of undergraduate education.

Memberships:

• Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

• C/C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, Fortran.
• CAD/CAM/CAE: AutoCAD, Pro/E, IDEAS, ABAQUS, ANSYS
• DBMS: ACCESS, Oracle RDBMS, MS SQL.
• Mathematics: Matlab, Maple.

Publication:

Francis E. H. Tay & Jinxiang Gu, "A function-based product model for concurrent design", 5^th International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 28-30 March, 2000, Singapore.

Francis E. H. Tay & Jinxiang Gu, "A Methodology for Evolutionary Product Design", submitted to Engineering with Computers.

Francis E. H. Tay & Jinxiang Gu, "Product Modeling for Conceptual Design Support", submitted to Computers in Industry.

Tests:

• GRE April,1997

Verbal:	Quantitative:	Analytical:
590	790	740
81%	97%	93%

• TOFEL October 1999.

Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	TWE	Total
25	28	28	5	270