Ben Scheele

I am working in a multi-disciplinary creative team on a new product development project.

- Performed layout of modified and customized enclosures to meet customer specifications
- Designed for many different product categories, including mild steel, stainless steel, networking, disconnect, and modular enclosures, as well as off-platform projects
- Worked with customers to redesign enclosures to fully utilize Hoffman's manufacturing capabilities.
Set up billing and routing for custom designs
- Created SolidWorks models and drawings based on legacy 2D drawings in order to expedite the custom design process and make the manufacturing process more efficient
- Helped colleagues to become more proficient with SolidWorks

- Automated the design and drafting of special and custom structural connectors using DriveWorks
- Worked with engineering and production staff to assess current designs and methods
- Created streamlined designs for models and drawings
- Programmed DriveWorks project to automate designs to meet all engineering, manufacturing, and customer requirements
- Compiled databases of configuration data on SQL server
- Set up server to generate designs based on specifications from users at multiple locations nationwide
-Trained others in use of SolidWorks and DriveWorks for custom design projects
Also using SolidWorks:
- Created custom-designed components
- Assisted in engineering and design of new products
- Prepared application illustrations for new products
- Used FEA in SW to test new product design
- Assisted in creation of model for large testing apparatus

- Designed and tested new devices
- Provided engineering and design services while working directly with customers
- Employed GD&T in designs
- Created assembly drawings and instructions to document products
- Reverse engineered complex machinery
- Reconfigured and redesigned existing machines
- Modified models and drawings to match as-built changes
- Maintained drawings through engineering change control process
- Worked with various fabrication methods, including plastic machining and welding, sheet metal forming, and welding and finishing of stainless steel
- Worked in collaborative and self directed environments

- Studied bicycle industry through dealer reps, product demos, publications, training
material, and first-hand experience
- Followed the design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of many sporting goods products and how customers interacted with them
- Shared knowledge and expertise
- Assembled bicycles
- Fit bicycles for customers of all ages and abilities, including children, elderly, and
handicapped
- Increased bicycling enjoyment through proper fit and advice
- Taught classes at local elementary school on bike safety, maintenance, and physics

- Assisted with research in the photomechanics laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Performed data extraction
- Wrote POV-Ray code to evaluate and verify extracted data
- Captured images from film and custom designed Photoshop action to batch process and isolate pertinent information
- Used VTK visualization software to produce code to perform desired data visualization
- Helped to reverse-engineer and modify C code for 2D fringe analysis software for calculating strain
- Analyzed test samples using stereomicroscope
- Measured test samples with Photoshop
- Collected long-term data on various epoxy resin test samples
- Researched birefringence
- Designed and built a polariscope
- Calibrated polariscope using test samples and MS Excel
- Produced and prepared test samples in wet lab, used polishing machines
- Performed data collection and analysis for test samples
- Contributed research and preparation of diagrams and images

Co-author, SAMPE paper: “Residual Stress Effects on the Behavior of Unidirectional Composite under Transverse Loading.” D.C. Foster, AFRL/MLBCM Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio 45433-7750; G.P. Tandon, University of Dayton Research Institute; M. Zoghi, University of Dayton; and Ben Scheele, University of Minnesota.

Created landscape designs for client approval
Acquired materials for major property changes
Supervised and completed construction projects