Vincent Yuan

Experience

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  The University of British Columbia

  Aug 2013 - May 2018

  Electrical Engineering Student

  - Focus: Robotics Statics and Dynamics, Signals and Systems, Control Systems, Dynamical Systems, Nanoelectronics, Electronic Materials, Stochastic Systems, Antenna Design and RF Systems- Thesis: Energy Based Underactuated Controller for Pendulums - Capstone: Distributed Communication System for Autonomous FleetsDesigned infrastructure and communication system for scalable wireless control of autonomous vehicles. Operates on 915MHz, 2.4GHz utilizing LoRa and IEEE802.11s.- Projects: Inductor Tethered Robot - Design and fabricated AM radio controlled robot with custom firmware, control circuit, and communication circuit. AM Radio Receiver - Design and Fabrication of emergency Analogue AM Radio receiver with tuning circuit, analogue frequency filters and audio amplifier for low impedance systems. Show less

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  Great One Global Certification Co., Ltd.

  Jun 2014 - Dec 2015

  Optics Safety Engineer Intern

  Working as different positions ranging from IT help desk technician, engineer assistant to safety engineer. Skills Involved: Computer troubleshooting, experience with windows operating systems, EN 62471 Standards, EN 62471 testing apparatus, lab data evaluation and lab report composition Responsibilities: Computer software repair, lab report construction, lab report filing, optical safety test data collection, data analysis

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  UBC Snowbots

  Sept 2014 - Aug 2018

  UBC Snowbots is an autonomous solutions team that build autonomous vehicles of all shapes and sizes. - Organizational management responsibilities that focused on member retention, education and professional training in Engineering. Restructured team size, subteam division and recruitment methods.- Design and implementation of GPS based navigation for autonomous vehicle.- Lead electrical, software and mechanical design and fabrication for 3 separate autonomous ground vehicles.- Designed, implemented and integrated locomotion driver and sensors.- Financial management responsibilities to raise funds in sponsorships and grants for team operational costs. Designed sponsorship package, outreach plans and connected sponsors in providing full coverage costs for team uniform. - Technical training for new members in Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering knowledge. Details include basics in circuitry, motors, control systems, robotics conventions. Show less

  • Captain

    Jun 2016 - Aug 2018

  • Integrations Lead

    Sept 2015 - Jun 2016

  • GPS Team Lead

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2015
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  SUBC - UBC's Human Powered Submarine Team

  Jan 2016 - Aug 2018

  Electrical/Control System,Technical Advisor, Fabrication and Integration

  - Fabrication of carbon fibre submarine hull- Integration of systems with glass reinforced internals - Fabrication of carbon fibre fins- Re-design and fabrication of hydraulic steering system and electrical steering system

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  TomTom

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  FacTest Intern

  - Design of factory production line QA tests for 3 different products- Created company internal human resource tracker for 4 different teams - Created bluetooth testing platform for factory tests on linux computers

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  UBC Subbots

  Jul 2017 - Aug 2018

  Founder/Captain

  UBC Subbots designs Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Founded in 2017, it will be building an AUV from scratch to attend the 2018 Robosub competition. - Founded new team and fabricated full AUV to attend Robosub 2018- Lead electrical system design, integration and fabrication of new AUV at UBC.- Designed and fabricated LiPo powered thruster power circuitry, integrated software stack with hardware system and sensor circuitry- Managed sponsorships and industry relations as well as finances for team Show less

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  OSI Maritime Systems

  Oct 2018 - now

  - Designing, implementing benchmarking research activities for product performance metrics - Assisting in production/supply chain/project designs surrounding all components and products - Assisting in designing product package and product management framework at OSI - Providing guidance and mentorship to Product Development team and Junior systems engineers - Building knowledge databases and providing training for junior engineers surrounding company processes and products - Providing technical support to proposals and projects in requirements phase and component selection phase Show less - Co-leading company wide product standardization- Compliance coordinator for IEC 60945- Author of multiple internal work instructions- Active member in internal process improvements and activities- Supporting system design, hardware engineering activities and change management for RCN AOPS vessels- Provide technical support for proposals team to various Navies in the world - Leading various product development activities for internal products- Parts database management and obsolescence management - Technical translator and engineering support to ROCN customer and manufacturers - Leading design of low cost integrated bridge system Show less

  • Intermediate Product Development Engineer

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Product Development Engineer

    Jul 2019 - Nov 2021

  • Component Engineer

    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019