Homero Noboa
  
                                                 EDUCATION

Jan. '92 – Dec. ‘93                  Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
                                                Philosophy Doctor in Mechanical Engineering.

Sep. '89 - Dec. '91                  Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
                                                Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

Oct. '72 – Jul. '78                    National Polytechnic University, Ecuador.
                                                Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

                                                  
WORK EXPERIENCE

June. ’10 – Date                      Staff Engineer, Johnson Controls, Controls Group, Global Energy and Sustainability

Develop new and innovative methods to detect faults and produce diagnosis on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment. Use mathematical models and statistical analysis to manage global energy consumption of enterprises.

June. ’08 – June ‘10               Staff Engineer, Johnson Controls, Controls Group, HVAC Systems

Design and implementation of HVAC control applications. Coordination with hardware and firmware design teams to develop high performance applications for Energy Efficient buildings. Work has focused on Central Plant control and optimization

Apr. ’00 – June ‘08                 Principal Engineer, Johnson Controls, Controls Group, HVAC Systems

Design and implementation of HVAC control applications. Coordination with hardware and firmware design teams to develop HVAC control solutions. Development of thermal models of HVAC systems to test the control applications.

Feb. ‘99 – Apr. ‘00                 Associate Director, Drying Research Center, Texas A&M University

Management of the Research Center. Development of strategies and definition of fields of research of the Center. Management of personnel, duties assignment. Overseeing and directing the work of the research assistants members of the team. Direct interaction with the Center’s company members.

 All the other duties performed as Research Associate.


Nov. ’98 – Feb. ‘99                 Research Associate, Drying Research Center, Texas A&M University

Basic research in drying of different coated and uncoated papers, including calendering process.

-        Study of radiation heat transfer in porous media. Heat and mass transfer in porous media.

-        Study of coupled conduction, convection, radiation and mass transfer in porous media.

-        Develop computer code to simulate drying of porous media, coated and uncoated paper, including calendering.

-        Design, conduct and supervise experiments to evaluate physical properties such as conductivity, porosity, and permeability, which are important in drying of porous media.

-        Use of electromicroscopy to determine profiles, particle size distribution, and porosity of porous media.

Nov.’98 – Feb. 99                   Research Associate, Energy System Laboratory, Texas A&M University

Applied analysis of energy consumption in buildings. Study of heating and cooling loading in large commercial buildings. Programming / reprogramming of HVAC control system for the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, where 400,000+ dollars savings were achieved by the modification of the original control program.

Feb. ’97 – Feb. ’98                 Qualified Technical Consultant of the National Oil Enterprise, PETROECUADOR

-          Analysis of the efficiency of the cooling towers of the Diesel Engines of the Pumping Station of the National Pipeline System (SOTE)

-          Optimization of the SOTE by reduction of the working temperature of the Pump’s engines

-          Study of the Pumping Engines’ Air Filters performance.

Sep. ’93 – Nov. ‘98                 Principal Professor at the National Polytechnic University, Ecuador 

Teaching in areas of Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Design of Thermal Systems, Applications of Computers in Mech. Engineering.

-          Teaching in the areas of energy, fluid mechanics and computer sciences

-          Research advisor of several BS Thesis in the design and evaluation of Thermal Systems, Quality Management, applications of Computer Sciences to Mechanical Engineering.

-          Technical Assistance to the Industry in Thermal Systems, involving analysis of rotary machinery, engines, pumps, compressors, fans, heat exchangers, condensers, evaporators, boilers, burners and other equipment to handle energy.

Sep. '89 – Sep. ‘93                  Graduate Research Assistant.

Dr. Dennis O'Neal and Dr. Dan Turner, Texas A&M University, College Station.

-          Study of the radiation, convection, and conduction heat transfer in the attic space of a typical single family house.

-          Developed a computer code for simulating the effects of dust deposits on the performance of radiant barriers.

-          Designed and conducted experiments to evaluate the performance of the model developed.

Nov. '78 - Dec. '79                  Plant Maintenance Head
                                               Brooklyn Cotton and Cellulose, Ecuador.

Jul. '78 - Sep. '78                    Engineering Trainee
                                                NASA Cotopaxi Tracking Station, Ecuador.

                                                   PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

                                               -   Expertise in the design and implementation of HVAC applications to control central plants (chiller plants), air handling units, variable air volume boxes, etc..

                                               -   Expertise in optimization algorithms, including Generalized Reduced Gradient (GRG) method.

                                               -   Expertise in the design and analysis of thermal systems. Analysis of radiation, conduction, and convection heat transfer, porous media drying process, power plants and other thermal systems

                                               -   Expertise in the Design of Heating, Venting and Air Conditioning Systems.

                                               -   In depth knowledge of Statistic Methods

                                               -   In depth knowledge of Digital Electronics Applied to Process Control.

                                               -   Proficiency in Energy Auditing.

                                               -     In depth knowledge of Quality Management, Total Productive Maintenance

                                               -   Knowledge of Dynamic Balancing of Rotating Machinery.

Programming Languages:      C, C++, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, Pascal

Operating Systems:                M.S. Windows, Vax/VMS, IBM/Wylbur, Mackintosh.

Software:                                  Matlab, Matlab Simulink, SAS, AutoCAD, M. S. Office Word, Access, Excel and Power Point, including programming interfaces with Visual Basic for Excel and Access, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, VP-Expert, DBase III+, and various others.

                                                   PUBLICATIONS

May, 2002                           -   Noboa, H. and Seyed-Yagoobi, J., 2002, “Drying of Uncoated Paper with Gas-Fired Infrared Emitters – Optimum Emitters’ Location within the Paper Machine Drying Section,” 2002 International Drying Symposium, Beijin, P. R. China.

Nov, 2000                            -   Noboa, H. and Seyed-Yagoobi, J., 2000, “Thermal Contact Conductance of a Coated Paper/Metal Interface," Drying Technology.

Nov. 1999                            -   Noboa, H., and Seyed-Yagoobi, J., 1999, “A Critical Review Of Drying Models For Coated Paper,” 1999 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 14-19, 1999, Nashville, Tennessee

Feb. 1999                             -   Noboa, H., and Seyed-Yagoobi, J., 1999, Technical Report on “Simulation of Calendering Process” submitted to Dupont Inc.

Jul. 1998                               -   Noboa, H., 1998, Tablas de Vapor, (Steam Tables), A&H Press, Quito, Ecuador

Oct. 1997                             -   Noboa, H., Figueroa, J., Peralta, S., and Perraso, O., 1997, “Diseño de un Sistema de Trazado Planar Controlado por un Computador,” (“Design of a Computer Controlled Planar Tracer”), Anales del XVI Congreso Panamericano de Ingenieria Mecanica, Electrica y Ramas Afines (Proceedings of the  XVI Panamerican Congress of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering), Santiago de Chile, Chile

Oct. 1997                             -   Noboa, H. and Gomez, R., 1997, “Administrador de Bases de Datos ODBC para AutoCAD” (“ODBC Data Base Administrator for AutoCAD”), Anales del XVI Congreso Panamericano de Ingenieria Mecanica, Electrica y Ramas Afines (Proceedings of the  XVI Panamerican Congress of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering), Santiago de Chile, Chile

Mar.1996                             -   Noboa, H. and Peterson, G. 1996, “A Thermodynamic Limit on Heat Pipe Performance”, Heat Pipe Conference, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

May 1994                            -   Noboa, H., O’Neal, D., and Turner, D., 1994“A Model of the Effect of Dust on the Emissivity of Radiant Barriers”, ASHRAE Transactions, May, 1994, Atlanta, GA.

Apr. 1991                             -   Noboa, H., O’Neal, D., and Turner, D., 1991, “Shape Factor between a Triangular Shape and a Perpendicular, Rectangular Shape, not Having a Common Edge”, ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol 45, p. 78, April, 1991.

1983, 1984                          -   Noboa, H., 1983, Tablas Termodinámicas del Agua, (Steam Tables), ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL Press, Quito, Ecuador. Several reprints

                                                   SOME COURSES AND SEMINARS AS SPEAKER

Apr. ’98                                     University – Small and Medium Size Enterprises liaison in Ecuador, Linkioping, Sweden

Oct. ’97                                     Development of an interface AutoCAD – ODBC, Pan American Congress of Mech. Eng., Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Oct. ’97                                     Design and implementation of a computer controlled planar tracer, Pan American Congress of Mech. Eng., Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Aug. ’97                                    Thermodynamic principles of the Steam Power Plants. Esmeraldas Power Plant Engineers and Technicians.

Aug.’93 – date                       Several Courses in AutoCAD applications, ALGOR (Finite Element analysis Applications) Visual Basic and others, at the Natl. Polytechnic University, Quito, ECUADOR.

Jun. '89                                     Refrigeration and Air Conditioning for High School Teachers, Guayaquil High School, Ecuador. - 24 Hours.

May '89                                     Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador. - 40 Hours.

Mar. '89, Mar. '88                   Pascal for Engineers, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador. - 20 Hours each.

Feb. '89                                     WordPerfect, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador. - 20 Hours.

Mar. '87 - Aug. '87                  Prolog and Artificial Inteligence, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador. - 6 months.

Feb. '87                                     Water Properties Formulation, National Phisics and Mathematics Meeting, Ecuador. - 1 Hour.

Mar. '86, Mar. '85                   BASIC for Beginners, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador. - 20 Hours each.

                                                   SOME COURSES AND SEMINARS ATTENDED

Sept. ’00                                   LonWorks Based Controls for Building Automation Systems, Madison, WI, September 2000

Apr. ’98                                     University – Small and Medium Size Enterprises Liaison, Madrid España.

May ’98                                    Managment of Small and Medium Sixe Enterprises for Quality and Productivity, Berlin, Birminham and Linkioping. Extended Semminar on ALFA PROJECT.

Apr. '92                                     Industrial Energy Technology Conference, Texas A&M Univ., Houston.

May '92                                     Symposium on Improving Building Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climates, Texas  A&M Univ., Dallas.

Jun. '91                                     Symposium on Improving Building Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climates, Texas  A&M Univ., Dallas.

Oct. '90                                     Industrial Energy Technology Conference, Texas A&M Univ., Houston.

Apr. '90                                     Annual Pump Users Symposium, Texas A&M Univ., Houston.

May '88 - Jul. '88                    Expert Seminar in Automotive Engineering, Central Vocational Training Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Jul. '88                                      Internal Combustion Engines Performance Evaluation Course, Daewoo Motors, Seoul, Korea.

Jun. '88                                     Introduction to the New Technology of Hyundai Vehicles, Ulsan, Korea.

Mar. '87                                    Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations and Dynamic Balancing of Rotating Machinery, Mechanical Engineers Association, Ecuador.

Oct. '86 - Mar. '87                   The Finite Element Method, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Oct. '86 - Mar. '87                   Classic Mechanics, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Mar. '86 - Jul. '86                   Mechanics of the Continuous Medium, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Mar. '86 - Jul. '86                   Electronics II, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Oct. '85 - Mar. '86                   Digital Systems I, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Oct. '85 - Mar. '86                   Electronics I, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Mar. '85                                  Conversion of Centrifugal Pumps to Turbines, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Apr. '84 - Jun. '84                   Combustion, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

Jan. '84 - Mar. '84                  Thermal Systems Analysis, National Polytechnic Univ., Ecuador.

                                                   HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

                                               -   President of the Johnson Controls Hispanic Affinity Network

                                               -   Member  of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE)

                                               -   Board Member of the Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee

                                               -   Graduated Cum-Laude, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, 1981

                                               -   ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-In-Aid, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1992

                                               -   National Mechanical Engineering Association Award, Quito, Ecuador, 1981