Nano Engineering

By: Tommy Gonzales

 Basic Info
I'm 35

Live in Hudson,NH

Outside of work really nothing I don’t have time to do anything but work sometimes mountain bike with Andy

Chief Engineer in Nanoscale Components

Nanoscale Components, Inc.

As chief engineer one thing I have to do is led a small team to design, build and deploy custom electro-chemical
processing equipment for the Lithium ion batteries.
 Career
I had in interested in helping out the world and being able to think logically and economically. I chose my career path late in
college as I couldn’t really decide on what to do.

Often work in labs in close controlled environments to be able to run experiments

My favorite part of the job is when you finish a project that you and your team have been working on for a long time and it
works just the way you wanted it to. When I see this it validates my work and makes me feel great.

I make about 46,000$ a year

 Schooling
The degree plan for Nano engineering at University of Pennsylvania required Fundamental Concepts in Nanotechnology, and Nanoscale
Science and Technology. After these required classes I had to take classes from Synthesis, Materials and Nano Fabrication with Structure
of Materials, Fabrication and Characterization of Devices Micro and Nanostructured Devices, Polymers and Biomaterials, and Atomistic
Modeling in Materials Science.

Most useful :

Atomistic Modeling in Materials Science in this it thought me mechanics, condensed matter physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
are briefly explained. This helped me when working with lithium batteries.

Structure of Materials where you learn about Effects of size, shape, temperature and distortion on diffraction intensity, and Pair distribution
function, inverse problem, small angle scattering. Radiation-matter interaction, scattering physics, atomic and electronic spectroscopy.

Fabrication and Characterization of Devices Micro and Nanostructured Devices: This course surveys various processes that are
used to produce materials structured at the micron and nanometer scales for electronic, optical and chemical applications. This helps with knowing
what materials are needed
 Schooling
Hardest classes:

Atomistic Modeling in Materials Science was very hard because it involved learning pair potentials, embedded atom
method, covalent bonding, and ionic bonding, tight-binding.

Fabrication and Characterization of Devices Micro and Nanostructured Devices : was hard for
me also because it applied some chemistry skills and I was never very good at chemistry

I would go to the tutoring center that my school offered that would help me with the chemistry that I didn’t
understand.

I was able to persevere by thinking about what would happen once I finished and by talking to friends that
helped reduce stress.
 Schooling
I got my graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania with Nano Engineering degree.

I have my PE or Practice of Engineering you have to take the PE test for whatever state you are in .

My clients are bigger companies that need batteries for phones and computers, my coworkers are pretty smart and good at
working in teams.

If i was to give advice take more chemistry classes and get into programs like PLTW that can help you at a younger age.