Gordon Wright

Electrical Engineer at Westport Innovations

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

About

A professional engineer with over 20 years of embedded controls R&D and mechatronic prototype development and testing experience. A multi-disipline creative and innovative design engineer with a diverse technical background and the ability to adapt technology from one industry for use in another. Extensive hands on electronics and controls software design experience.

Experience

  • Senior Electrical Engineer at Westport Fuel Systems
    Jan 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 6 mos

  • Owner at Rhino Controls Ltd
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2015 · 7 yrs 1 mo

    Propane fuel control system development - Contract work for Orica Mining Services.  Development of Robotic Arm inverse kinematics control software.  Development of CAN bus joystick and hydraulics control with National Instruments CompactRIO.  Development of Laser scanner mapping software.  Labview programming for automated testing of explosives pump system.

  • Product Development Engineer at Hot Sun Industries
    Apr 2010 - Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Complete development of Commercial Solar Thermal automatic controller with Web based energy monitoring.

  • University of British Columbia (19 yrs 9 mos)
    • Mechatronics Research Engineer
      Jan 2004 - Sep 2007 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Mech 220(Instrumentation and Electronics) Instructor - Design and build Mechatronics program laboratory experiments.  CNC machine tool control  RSLogix PLC controls  National Instruments FPGA control  National Instruments Vision processing.  Brushless DC motor and Stepper motor amplifiers and controls.  Sensor signal conditioning and Analog to Digital converters. - Provide Electrical Engineering support for Mechatronics research. - Supervisor of Senior year design projects.

    • Research Engineer
      Jan 1988 - Jan 2004 · 16 yrs 1 mo

      Design and build custom instrumentation and electronics for the departments research activities. - Provide Electrical Engineering support for research in Mechanical Engineering Department.  CNC Machine tool research  Robotics research  Alternative fuels combustion research  Aerodynamics research (Wind tunnel)  Pulp and Paper research  Biomedical research - Upgrade Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments to include computerized data acquisition, sensors, and controls.

  • Contract Work at Impco Technologies
    Aug 2000 - Mar 2001 · 8 mos

    Created embedded control software for a Propane fuel system.