 William Mendez (Mechanical Engineering) About DOE Fellow: Mr. Mendez has a special interest in software development for solving Partial Differential Equations using C++. Mr. Mendez has also mastered several of the numerical analysis methods for engineering and scientific application in an object oriented approach. These numerical techniques can be applied for the following fields of mathematics: Solution of Nonlinear Equations f(x) = 0, Solution of Linear Systems AX = B, Interpolation and Polynomial Approximation, Curve Fitting, Numerical Differentiation, Numerical Integration, Solution of Differential Equations, Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Eigen values and Eigenvectors and Numerical Optimization. Another topic of interest is the kinematical analysis of robotics systems; he has developed a marketable three dimensional printer (3D printer) as a result of his senior graduation project; this became the favorite among all the projects and has been in the process of patent due to its innovating applications. Another topic of interest of Mr. Mendez is the Mechanical Design field. For this, he has developed a set of skills and mechanical designs, in general mastering the use of professional software such as: SolidWorks, ANSYS and CATIA. Mr. Mendez has been interested in Computer Aided Design, developing smaller versions of some of the application tools of the available software on the market. |
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Mr. William Mendez is currently working on the development of a conceptual design of a robotic mechanism. This device is being developed as a survey tool for physical and chemical characterization of contaminated nuclear stacks. This project was a result of a summer internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory managed by the US department of Energy. He is currently working on the same project under the supervision of Dr. Leonel Lagos from the Applied Research Center at Florida International University, and Mr. Mark Noakes from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Mr. Mendez has been devoted to the task of designing and testing a wall-wipe sampler mechanism. This mechanism will be used to collect samples from the inside of the nuclear stacks in a procedure denominated transferable contamination survey.
