Rachael Low
Group Manager of the Failure Analysis and Materials Engineering team within Gas Turbine Product Engineering, a segment of Turbomachinery Products at Solar Turbines.
- Role
- Group Manager Failure Analysis & Materials Engineering at Solar Turbines
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rachael Low
Rachael currently works at Solar Turbines as a Group Manage in the Materials and Processes Engineering group in the Gas Turbine Product Engineering Sector. Her group leads failure analysis investigations for all components of the turbine engine, gas compressor, and gearbox and assists mechanical design engineers with material changes. Rachael is a Six Sigma green belt. Her team is developing global suppliers including raw material mills, forging houses, casting suppliers and welding qualifications. She has a BS and an MS from Colorado School of Mines in metallurgical and materials engineering and specifically metallurgical engineering for her MS. Rachael\'s masters thesis was studying the cracking and oxidation mechanisms of fatigue and creep-fatigue in a nickel based superalloy through 3D characterization. She has diverse industry experience including research, oil & gas, steel and stainless steel, forging, aerospace, and power generation.
Experience
Group Manager Failure Analysis & Materials Engineering
Jun 2024 — Present · San Diego, CA, US
Group Manager of the Failure Analysis and Materials Engineering Team focusing on low temperature alloys of industrial gas turbines. As a leading provider of energy solutions, this engineering group interfaces closely with Materials & Processes, Gas Turbine Product Enerineering, Techology & NPI, Gas Compressor Engineering, Global Supply Chain, Turbomachinery Operations, Solutions Platforms Engineered, Customer Services Worldwide Overhaul, Technical Services, and Field Operations.
Education
Colorado School of Mines
Master of Science (MS), Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
2010 — 2012
Colorado School of Mines
Bachelor of Science (BS), Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
2006 — 2010
Skills
- Materials Science
- Failure Analysis
- Testing
- Characterization
- Microsoft Word
- Dual Beam Fib and Sem
- Fib
- Raman Microscopy
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Sample Preparation
- Microsoft Office
- Materials
- Continuous Improvement
- Welding Inspection
- Creep-Fatiuge
- Fractography
- Inconel
- Process Engineering
- Tem
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mentoring
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Apt
- Lean Six Sigma
- Minitab
- X-Ray Diffraction Analysis
- Metallography
- Crystallography
- Eds
- Microsoft Excel
- Sem
- Optical Microscopy
- Avizo
- Engineering
- Metallurgy
- Superalloys
- Six Sigma
- Social Skills
- Xrd
- Transmission Electron Microscopy
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