Edward Lai

Experience

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  City of Chandler, Arizona

  May 2012 - Aug 2014

  Lifeguard II/Water Safety Instructor
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  WOWI Career Assessment

  Aug 2015 - May 2016

  Sales And Marketing Specialist

   Mastered the fundamentals of PHP and designed the homepage and several support pages for the WOWI website Utilized strong communication skills to initiate dialogue and successfully partner with 10+ career service organizations

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  Barrow Neurological Institute

  Jun 2016 - May 2017

  Research Technician

   Improved research that focused on how temperature-altering drugs affected neuro-thermoregulatory behavior in rats Assigned crucial aspects of the experiment and relied on problem solving abilities to design a protocol that would efficiently get results Developed and presented a poster demonstration to researchers from around the country

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  National Central University, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Chemical Engineering Intern

   Composed a MATLAB program that generated the compositions of the ingredients for developing synthetic breast tissue, aka phantoms Learned and implemented LabVIEW software to control a near-infrared (NIR) diffuse optical imaging medical device to screen breast tumors Competed with research team using optical imaging equipment at Taichung Engineering Exposition, presenting the optical imaging equipment and acted as the English-to-Chinese translator for international “people of interest” o 4th Place in Taichung Engineering Expo Competition Show less

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  Particulate Process and Product Design Lab

  Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

   Applied MFiX-DEM to progress simulation research in particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions Designed MFiX simulation to replicate impact dynamics of granule on other granules

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  Freeport-McMoRan

  May 2018 - Jul 2018

  Metallurgical Engineering Intern

   Outlined and tested my own Design of Experiment (DoE) project on a standardized Anode grading criteria. Innovated an anode tracking program and a cell maintenance scheduling program using Excel’s VBA that has subsequently been put on to a tablet and applied in real time in the Electrowinning (EW) process. Partnered with another intern to collect entrainments, alter flow rates, and perform simulated financial analysis using MEUM to convert the Solvent Extraction (SX) system to full-parallel from series-parallel, saving the site $1.3 million. Show less

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  Intel Corporation

  Dec 2018 - Jul 2020

  Process Engineer