Karson Leperi

Experience

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  Case Western Reserve University

  May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Created an empirical model of the strain-stress curve for Shape Memory polymers to understand the thermo-mechanical behavior.• Analyzed thermal transition properties of the polymers to determine the structural properties.

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  Bruckner Maschinenbau

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Research and Development Intern

  • Prepared and optimized coating mixture for polyolefin battery separator films for lithium-ion batteries• Developed new methods to evaluate adhesion and cohesion of coating on separator films• Identified improvements to adhesion of coating to film through use of various adhesion promoters

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  Northwestern University

  Sept 2013 - Jul 2018

  Ph.D. Candidate

  • Investigated capture and sequestration of CO2 from coal plant emissions using Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA)• Developed numerical simulation of PSA cycle in MATLAB utilizing finite volume method for computational determination of its performance• Optimized operating parameters of PSA operation and humidity level of incoming feed gas to minimize overall cost of the product• Created evaluation metric for rapid adsorbent screening utilizing machine learning techniques and data from PSA cycles discovering dozens of materials with better performance than the industrial standard• Trained Artificial Neural Networks as surrogate models of pressure swing adsorption steps, reducing the simulation time by three orders of magnitude Show less

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  The Dow Chemical Company

  May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Ph.D. Intern
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  Intel Corporation

  Aug 2018 - now

  PTD Module and Integration Device Yield Engineer / CAD Engineer