NICHOLAS A. BRAUN
OBJECTIVE
Seeking an early career chemical engineering position involving chemical processing, mass and energy transfer, reaction engineering, separation and purification systems, process controls, scale-up, and risk assessments
EDUCATION
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Expected Graduation: May, 2016
B.S. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Overall GPA: 3.76 / 4.00
ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
Air Force Research Laboratory (40 hr/wk) Dayton, OH May 2013-Aug 2015
R&D Nanomaterial Engineer
• Developed a gold nanoparticle chemical sensor for detecting heavy metal toxins in the air after airplane maintenance
• Engineered gold nanoparticles (NPs) via chemical reduction to enhance NPs physical properties for design specifications
• Operated the following lab instruments: UV-Vis Near InfraRed analysis, TEM imaging, DLS, and ICP-Mass Spectrometry
• Purified NPs by centrifugation and coated NPs with a thiolated polymer, Poly-Ethylene Glycol (PEG), to stabilize NPs
• Presented 3 technical papers & posters (i.e. Fine-Tuning Synthesis of Low Aspect Ratio GNRs via Silver Nitrate Addition)
OSU Chemical Eng. Unit Operations Lab (15 hr/wk) Columbus, OH Jan-May 2015
Project Manager of OSU Distillation Column
• Assembled a $1.5 M, 13 tray distillation column containing 300+ individual parts that were stripped, cleaned, and reassembled to successfully produce distillation of an ethanol-water solution – Project performed with 2 Ph.D. students
• Designed, implemented, and automated liquid-liquid extraction (LL-E) column: designed a flow diagram for piping & instrumentation (P&I) in ChemCAD software, pump sizing, and budgeted 25+ parts for the assembly of a LL-E column
Tec^Edge, Wright Brothers Institute (40 hr/wk) Dayton, OH May-Aug 2012
Android Application Developer: Circuitry Team
• Programmed Android application allowing users to interface with a network of sensors connected to an Arduino chip
• Preformed testing and calibrations for various chemical and environmental sensors such as propane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, wind, light intensity, radiation, and breathalyzer; Recorded sensor data sent to an Arduino chip
• Produced bi-weekly technical summaries documenting my sensor project progress and created project overview videos...
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