Rafael Azeredo

Experience

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  CEiiA // Centre of Engineering and Product Development

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  Engineering Internship

  Summer Internship at CEiiA - Matosinhos, with a team developing a UAV for surveillance and heat and humidity visualization of agricultural or forest area.• First contact experience with the professional world on how aircraft development is made from preliminary design until commercialization of the final product.• Contacted potential suppliers of servomotors to provide budgets for cost analysis.

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  UG DBF - University of Glasgow Design Build Fly

  Sept 2016 - May 2018

  Aerodynamics Team Manager - Extracurricular Experience

  Aerodynamics Team Manager of the University of Glasgow's team of "Design, Build, Fly" , an international competition organized by AIAA where a small model aircraft is designed according to certain specified parameters and flown at the annual competition, hosted either in Tucson, Arizona or Wichita, Kansas, USA.• Developed the fuselage, wing and tail section of a small RC aircraft to fit the requirements of the yearly competition, which requires a careful compromise between certain dimensions to attain a specific mass, body dimension or flight characteristic.• Hand building of body parts such as wing spars and fuselage made of carbon-fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) with vacuum and curing chambers designed by the team.• Hot-wire cutting of foam to the desired shapes to produce body parts such as wings and main bodies of the aircraft as well as packaging for the aircraft.• Static thrust testing setup of different combinations of propellers with different electric motors at different power levels, to predict flight response over time. Show less

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  Efacec

  Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

  R&D Specialist - Mechanical Engineer - Space

  First foray in industry, performing Mechanical Engineer work developing mechanical parts for satellite-rated instruments’ printed circuit boards (PCBs) and to manage these instruments’ assembly, integration and testing (AIV) process:• Designing 3D mechanical parts and assemblies, as well as 2D drawings, using SolidWorks for the housing and structural reinforcement of printed circuit boards (PCBs) of flight-rated electronic instruments.• Creating FE models of these parts and developing structural analyses, using MSC Nastran/Patran to investigate the survivability under shock and vibration of structural parts and sensitive electronics.• Extensive knowledge of ECSS norms for design, assembly and testing of space-rated electronic and structural equipment.• Successful management of a team of operators in an ISO 8 Clean Room environment for the timely progress of the AIT process.• Logging purchase orders and scheduling their on-time delivery with suppliers and purchase departments making use of SAP-based inventory logging systems.• Project and work proposal writing for projects leaded by organizations and companies such as ESA, Airbus Space and OHB.• Developing thermal analyses with FE models using Abaqus to observe the heat dissipation of active electronic components mounted on a PCB during normal and extreme operational conditions. Show less

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  European Southern Observatory

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2021

  Mechanical Engineer

  Mechanical Engineer preparing CAD and Finite Element (FE) models for Structural and Thermal Analyses related to the certification of the structures and optics of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT):• Developing Structural, Modal and Harmonic Analyses to assess the effect of extreme conditions such as earthquakes (ie. Shock Response Spectrum analyses) and the influence of operational loads (eg. Random Vibration) on structural and optical elements of the telescope.• Creating simplified FE models of subsystems to be assembled into a telescope global representation using ANSYS Mechanical APDL.• Modifying components of telescope subsystems through CAD design using Autodesk Inventor.• Simulating dynamical conditions with semi-analytical models using MATLAB and Simulink.• Developing Thermal Analyses to estimate thermal maps in normal and extreme operational conditions. Show less

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  Space Applications Services NV/SA

  Nov 2021 - now

  Mechanical Engineer

  Mechanical Engineer at Space Applications Services, working mainly within the Robotics & Flight Systems divisions.Tasked with:- performing mechanical design using CAD software, - outlining mechanic and thermal test procedures, - writing project proposals - performing thermal and mechanical (stress and vibration) analyses using FEMs- performing assembly and integration of hardware, including flight hardware in ISO 7 clean room conditions