JOAQUIN CAMACHO

4557 Bresee Ave., Baldwin Park, CA 91706

PHONE 626-367-9643 • E-MAIL:

EDUCATION

PhD Mechanical Engineering Expected Spring 2012

University of Southern California

Advisor: Prof. Hai Wang

Thesis: Experimental and Computational Investigation of Soot Formation

BS Chemical Engineering Spring 2008

University of CaliforniaSan Diego

EMPLOYMENT

Engineering Intern. Wildcat Discovery Technologies, San DiegoCA Fall 2007-Summer 2008

  • Engineer high-throughput screening for the accelerated invention of novel metal hydride devices

which exhibitideal hydrogenation/ thermal desorption properties.

  • Characterization and examination of products using scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction

analysis and automated systems calibration.

ResearchAsst.Center for Energy Research, UCSD, La JollaCA Summer 2007

  • Experimentation with autoignition and extinction of jet fuel in counterflow under Prof. Kal Seshadri

Grader/ ReaderChemical Engineering, UCSD, La JollaCA Spring 2007-2008

  • Graded weekly chemical engineering thermodynamics homework under Prof. Forman Williams.

Research Asst. Amylin Pharmaceuticals, La JollaCA Winter 2005-Spring 2007

  • Preparation of buffered solutions according to standardized operating procedures of the Bioanalytical Chemistry Department

PUBLICATIONS

Abid, A.D., Camacho, J., Sheen, D.A., Wang, H. “Quantitative measurement of soot particle size distribution in premixed flames – The burner-stabilized stagnation flame approach,” Combustion and Flame, 156, pp. 1862–1870(2009)

Abid, A.D., Camacho, J., Sheen, D.A., Wang, H. “Evolution of Soot Particle Size Distribution Function in Burner-Stabilized Stagnationn-Dodecane-Oxygen-Argon Flames” Energy & Fuels, 23, pp. 4286–4294 (2009)

Cain, J.P., Camacho, J., Phares, D. J., Wang, H., Laskin, A. “Evidence of Aliphatics in Nascent Soot Particles in Premixed Ethylene Flames,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Submitted Jan 2010

EXPERIMENTAL and COMPUTATIONAL

  • Sample Projects: Burner stabilized stagnation flames, liquid fuel flames, sampling flame gases for

GC, Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer/ Differential Mobility Analyzer/ Condensation Particle

Counter for flame and reacting flow applications, Transient Plasma Ignition, Chemical Ionization-

Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for flame and reacting flow, electrostatic precipitation/thermal

desorption sampling, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, thermocouple measurements

with radiation correction

  • SANDIA suite of computational tools for reacting flow systems. The suite incorporates detailed

chemical-kinetic mechanisms (JetSurF-developed in-house), transport properties and thermodynamic

properties for solving problems and modeling during combustion research.

Software: Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems.

ASPEN, Comsol, LabVIEW, Matlab, Mathematica, Mathcad, Maple, Igor, SigmaPlot, Microsoft

Office and other software used for collection, analysis and presentation of data.

HONORS

NSF-CAMP Symposium Special Merit Oral Presentation Spring 2008

Computer Science and Engineering Scholarship Winter- Spring 2008

NationalAcademy for Minority Participation in Engineering Scholarship Winter- Spring 2008

Miller Engineering Scholarship Fall 2007-Spring 2008

Erion Scholarship Fall 2007-Spring 2008

McNair Scholarship Winter-Summer 2007

Provost’s Honors Spring 2006-Fall 2008