Tryana Verónica Garza Cruz

TRYANA VERONICA GARZA CRUZ

4931 Garrison St. Apt. 104, Wheat Ridge CO 80033 (303) 269 1951 Cell [email protected]

OBJECTIVE:

To build my career in the mechanical engineering research area, and apply my engineering knowledge in the development and improvement of technology.

EDUCATION:

Colorado School of Mines. PhD, Engineering Systems, Mechanical Specialty. 2006-Present

Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico B.S. Mechanical Engineering with minor in Industrial Engineering, Dec 2005.

Colorado School of Mines as an exchange student, 2005

Alliance Française Monterrey. French as a foreign language 2003-2004

SKILLS:

 Engineering: Stress and Strain analysis, Forging, Rolling, Tensile and Failure Tests, Machine elements design, Mechanics of materials, Engineering of materials, Internal combustion engines, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Computer aided design, Dynamics, Fatigue and Fracture, DEM.

 Management: Supply chain management, Production management, Statistical control of quality, Production lines design.

 Language: Spanish, English, Basic French.

 Computer: MS Office, PFC2D, Pro Engineer, Mathematica, C++ and Visual Basic.

EXPERIENCE and PRESENTATIONS:

Researched for “Advanced Granular Systems Modeling.” TAI/CSM/NASA 2007- Present

“ Modeling of Agglutinates and its Mechanical Properties.” At the IX Space Resources Roundtable. Golden, CO. October, 2007.

Researched for “Lunar Regolith Handling Model Development”. Lockheed Martin/CSM 2007.

Researched for “ISRU Sample Processing.” Ball Aerospace/CSM 2006 “ DEM Simulations of ISRU Sample Processing.” At the Lunar Geomechatronics Workshop. Golden, CO. October, 2006.

“ Deformation of Fragile Granular Assembly.” At the 80th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Boulder, CO. June, 2006.

Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference: “Engineering Science for Space Exploration”, Switzerland 2005.

Researched and Experimented for “Mitigation Of Dust And Electrostatic Accumulation For Human And Robotic Systems For Lunar And Martian Missions”, NASA/CSM 2005.

Directed, improved, and taught the computer aided design laboratory PRO ENGINEER, Mechanical Engineering department, ITESM 2002-2004.

Directed Foreign Promotion: 16th and 17th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, ITESM 2003and 2004.