David Bruneau

Experience

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  Newfoundland Power

  Apr 2011 - Aug 2011

  Engineering Intern

  Electrical Distribution department. Ran electrical flow studies, collected coordinates to help create a geographically referenced connectivity model of Newfoundland Power’s distribution system, updated power diagrams, edited Perl scripts.

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  Newfoundland Power

  Jan 2012 - Apr 2012

  Engineering Intern

  Civil Engineering Department. Wrote a "Request for Proposals" document, helped design a dam and completed all required demolition/construction drawings using AutoCAD, wrote a report on a potential penstock replacement and wrote other technical documents.

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  ExxonMobil

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2012

  Engineering Intern

  Reservoir Engineering department. Completed a high-level full field analysis of a secondary reservoir and completed pressure transient analysis on currently operating wells.

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  Memorial University of Newfoundland

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Engineering Intern - Inspirus Project

  - Designed and 3d printed components to build an intelligent sensor for unmanned vehicles.- Designed sturdy test frames for other experiments.

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  AMOG Consulting

  Jan 2014 - Apr 2014

  Scientific Technician

  - Performed analysis work and wrote report for successful joint industry project on mooring chain corrosion. - Contributed to programming work on flow-induced vibration software. - Notable accomplishment: project report was received well-enough that multiple follow-up projects were commissioned as a result.

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  Kvaerner

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  Engineering Intern

  - Performed heat transfer analysis in commercial finite-element software of a gravity base structure. - Evaluated methods to prevent ballast water from freezing, as this structure was being designed for an Arctic climate.

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  Seamatica Aerospace

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  Mechanical Design Engineer

  - Mechanical design for unmanned aerial vehicles and radar systems. Exercised design skills to create robust components quickly. - Notable Accomplishment: Wrote part of proposal that secured ~$200k funding.

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  University of Waterloo

  Sept 2017 - Jun 2019

  - Developed an extensively validated model of an advanced football helmet as part of the NFL Numerical Crowdsourcing project. Validated component-level models by assigning experimentally measured material properties. Our group met deadlines and created best-performing model of the four commissioned.- Coupled helmet model with human body model to predict brain response in concussion.- Mentored undergraduate research assistant with weekly meetings. - Notable accomplishment: 4x journal publications on helmets and head injury Show less - Taught weekly tutorials to ~60 students for two fundamental courses in solid mechanics. Tailored tutorials to target the most misunderstood concepts, by asking class frequent questions. Offered both math-based and demonstrative explanations of concepts to appeal to different learning styles. - Provided addtional, weekly office hours to provide one-on-one help, attended by up to 20 students some weeks.- Notable Accomplishment: recieved “Best Teaching Assistant” award in 2017 (no evaluation given in 2019) Show less

  • Graduate Research Assistant - Impact Mechanics and Material Characterization Group

    Jan 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2017 - Apr 2019
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  University of Toronto

  Jan 2020 - now

  Graduate Researcher - Biomedical Simulation Laboratory

  - Developed fluid and solid simulations of brain aneurysms, resulting in new understanding of aneurysm mechanics. - Used vibration analysis, signal processing, statistical analysis (sklearn) to explain the cause of aneurysm sounds. - Mentored two new students who are now expanding this work – I have provided weekly technical support.- Presented research methodology and findings to a variety of audiences using intuitive, art-inspired visualizations.