James Ensley

Capstone - Inverter @Mac Formula Electric

Hamilton, ON, CA

Designing an inverter enclosure and cold plate, optimizing thermal performance, flow, weight, manufacturability, and serviceability.• Developing CFD models in ANSYS Fluent to compare different cold plate geometries, validating through thermal testing of a prototype to inform final design decisions.• Building a reduced-order thermal model in MATLAB to run sensitivity analysis on cold plate geometric parameters, capturing their impact on junction temperature. • Documenting assumptions, trade studies, and design decisions for knowledge transfer. • Developing a powertrain model in MATLAB

McMaster University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering