Resume

Education

2007-2011 Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Research Experience

Researcher in Particle Flow and Tribology Lab

Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.me.cmu.edu/faculty1/higgs/index.html

2008 - 2009 ACADEMIC YEAR:

• Assisted in the development of computer model of granular flow in a bearing.
• Wrote parallel code to run across a beowulf cluster programmed in Mathematica 7 using gridMathematica.

SUMMER 2009:

• Wrote parallel computer model of granular flow in a bearing in C using OpenMP to achieve improvement in speed and simulation size.

2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR:

• Wrote general-purpose, parallelized and optimized particle dynamics code in C using OpenMP.
• Implemented code in multiple multi-phase flow simulations.

SUMMER 2010:

• Performed parametric studies using aforementioned code on granular flow in a bearing and filter-cake development in a solid-fluid multiphase flow.

Dwight Englewood Summer School

Englewood, NJ
June-August of 2005 through 2008

• Teacher and Teaching Assistant of enrichment classes for 5^th to 8^th grade students.
• Classes taught include engineering challenges, game programming, robotics, computer animation.

Grants

• Intel First Year Research Experience: “Parallelization in Granular Flow Research,” 2008-2009 Academic Year.
• Small Undergraduate Research Grant: “Granular Lubrication: Novel Modeling and Experimentation,” Spring 2009.
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship: “Parallelization in Particle Augmented Tribology Simulation,” Summer 2009.

Presentations

• Alejandro F. Queiruga, C. Fred Higgs III. “Parallelization in Granular Flow Research,” Carnegie Mellon Meeting of the Minds, May 2009.
• Alejandro F. Queiruga, C. Fred Higgs III. “Optimization and Parallelization in Particle Dynamics Simulation,” Carnegie Mellon Meeting of the Minds, May 2010.
• Jeremiah N. Mpagazehe, Alejandro F. Queiruga, C. Fred Higgs III. “A CFD-DEM Approach to Model Rock-Cutting,” International Joint Tribology Conference, October 2010.
• Jeremiah N. Mpagazehe, Alejandro F. Queiruga, C. Fred Higgs III. “An Eulerian-Lagrangian Model to Predict Filter Cake Formation and Expression in Oil Drilling,” The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AiChe) Conference, November 2010.

Papers

• Jonathan Newman, Bob Cariste, Alejandro Queiruga, Isaac Davis, Ben Plotnick, Michael Gordon, and Sidney San Martín. “Thermoacoustic Refrigeration,” Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology Research Journal, 2006.
  Copy at http://www.osd.rutgers.edu/gs/06papers/Thermoacoustic.pdf

Computer Skills

OS Extensive knowledge and skilled administrator of Unix and Linux systems; experience with multi-node systems
Programming C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Shell Scripting, Lisp, experience with x86 assembly code
Software Mathematica 7 with gridMathematica; OpenMP, MPI; Matlab; SolidWorks; LabView; Microsoft Office, Excel, Access with Visual Basic scripting

Miscellaneous

• First place in Teragrid 2009 Graduate Team Programming Competition
• Booth chair for Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity at Carnegie Mellon in 2009 and 2010
  Designed and managed construction of a two-story carnival booth built in a period of four days.