Mehdi Batel

- Project Manager for industrial measurement and software solutions (team management of software engineers and application specialists). Management of high-technological solutions (data acquisition and software). Successfully developed and delivered measurement and analysis solutions for the noise, vibration and harshness market, unmatched by competition so far.
- Product Line Manager for advanced automotive measurement and analysis software solutions. Developed and implemented marketing and business strategies for the worldwide automotive market. Implemented global business development strategies at automotive key accounts OEM’s and Tier1 suppliers in Europe, USA, India, Japan, China and Korea. Successful implementations of the various strategies with significant sales growth and account penetration.

• Managed vibration and mechanical measurement and simulation solutions worldwide.
• Worked actively in all regions of the world (Europe, NAFTA, Japan, China, Korea, India, North Africa), managed complex sales opportunities (>1 Million euros) and deployed large consulting projects worldwide, in automotive, aerospace, energy and turbo machinery industrial sectors.
• Managed the development of aerospace GVT (Ground Vibration Test) and flutter test solutions.
• Participated in the development of helicopter engine test solutions.
• Developed SEA (Statistical Energy Analysis) test solutions (high frequency structural vibration techniques) for the Boeing Company.

• System and application support of Brüel & Kjær test and instrumentation solutions. Engineering support and integration of data acquisition and multi-analyzing platforms for NAFTA (U.S.A, Canada & Mexico). Successfully developed and deployed technical and engineering support platforms for the NAFTA market. Application expert and consultant in noise & vibration engineering.
• Identification of new business development opportunities. Application consultation in the field of NVH (Noise Vibration & Harshness) to increase business activity in Eastern United States.
• NAFTA Product Manager for Structural Dynamics solutions: developed and implemented marketing and business development strategies for aggressive market penetration in aerospace and automotive industries.
• Specialist of vibration controller systems. Integrated several vibration control solutions for the aerospace and defense market.

• Research investigations in piezoelectric materials, complex Young’s modulus measurements in environmental chambers using dynamic excitation (Madigovsky’s resonant technique). Developed a measurement technique for the determination of visco-elastic material properties with use of laser interferometry techniques.
• Thesis: Acoustic Determination of adhesive bond delaminations, potentially present on US Navy sonar arrays. Determination of complex group and phase velocities on submarine geometries. Complete characterization of the vibration associated with the defect, using Finite Element Analysis, analytical calculations, and wave propagation measurements.
Thesis committee: Dr. Peter H. Rogers, and Dr. Yves H. Berthelot, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division.

Survey of an ultrasonic soldering device for connectors: implementation of a measurement method for the determination of the complex Young’s modulus of a viscoelastic material (frequency and temperature dependence).
Instructors of the project: Dr. Vitaly Gusev and Dr. Bernard Castagnede.

Implemented a frequency converter system on production lines (Siemens SIMOVERT Masterdrive), for the monitoring of asynchronous three-phase motors.