Dr. Juliana Zottis

Mechanical Engineer working as a freelancer for automotive manufacturing companies responsible for: • R&D of the manufacturing process – project parameters and mechanical properties improvement • Analysis and evaluation via finite element (FEM) – stress/strain • CAE / CAD / CAM Stress and strain calculations/analysis to industry-recognized theories End-to-end project management: support the research and development Design of experiments, project analysis, and material selection

Mechanical Engineer Manufacturing Process Tooling. International BRAGECRIM project with RWTH Aachen (DE). Hot forging process evaluation: “Evaluation of Sheet Metal Covers to Improve Tool Life in Forging” Doctoral Thesis. Development of a new coating method (FEA ad experiments). Elaboration and orientation of engineering projects. Development and management of projects, technical trainings, and seminars across multiple scientific methods of analysis.

Role: NATIVE SPEAKER (PT- BR) Collaborator Jr. Reporting to the Head of Automotive AI solutions. Responsible for annotations, prompt tuning and localization; evaluating design and quality of pronunciation dictionaries; evaluating and correcting dictionary entries; identifying new entries for general and specialized dictionaries; writing phonetic transcriptions for new and existing entries.

Mechanical Engineer | Manufacturing process | FEA. International project BRAGECRIM. R&D of a new concept of forging die coating method. Experimental and numerical simulation analysis of a closed-die tool for hot forging process. International engagement between Brazilian and German universities, improvement of hot forging tool life, analysis and development of process and equipment, materials and calculations required to obtain a final product. Costs reduction, productivity and maintenance improvement.

FEA-simulation with distortion sources / inhomogeneities. Business or sector Academic Research Role: Master Student within the project: “Investigation and improvement of a manufacturing process chain from cold drawing processes to induction hardening”. Delivered: • Experimental and numerical evaluation of a drawing process chain. • Evaluation by FEA-simulation of the distortion sources and inhomogeneities. • List of parameters to improve the product quality.

Master student working within a collaborative project (BR-DE) responsible for the FEM simulations, process parameters analysis and improvement. Automotive R&D sector, elaboration and orientation of engineering projects, parameters identification in the distortions of shafts. Simulation analysis and DeformTM software training. Investigation and improvement of a manufacturing process chain from cold drawing processes to induction hardening. FEA-simulation with distortion sources / inhomogeneities.

Mechanical Engineer Trainee in Product Development. Manufacturing of agricultural machinery. R&D project. Monitoring the production line, review structures and drawings, create and develop new items. Modification of the decals to improve the operator's interaction with the machine's adjustment tables, combining theoretical and technical knowledge and the practice of developing and producing agricultural machinery projects. Optimization of equipment's gearbox and cost reduction.

Manufacturing processes analysis and development. FEA (DeformTM software) and experimental evaluation. Project: "Evaluation of sheet metal covers to improve tool life in forging". Collaboration: LdTM (UFRGS, Brazil) and IBF (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).

Manufacturing process evaluation and improvement. Cold drawing process analysis. Finite element analysis. Influence factors identification.

Mechanical engineering conceptsPhysics I to IV, Math I to IIITechnical drawingMaterial science, heat treatment and manufacturing process