Filimon Dan Mihai
CAE Engineer
✉️ danmihaifilimon@gmail.com · 🌍 România
In short
I'm a mechanical engineer working as a CAE engineer, but on the side I enjoy learning new things, building small software projects for fun and documenting what I discover along the way. Here you'll find who I am, what I've worked on and how to reach me.
Experience
Nov 2021 – Present
Engineer
TECOSIM Romania · Full-time · Cluj, Romania
FEM simulations — ANSA/LsPrePost/Primer for preprocessing, Abaqus/LS-DYNA/Optistruct as solvers, Animator/LsPrePost/META for postprocessing:
- Building and translating FE models across Abaqus, Optistruct and LS-DYNA
- Crash and pedestrian-protection simulations for all major load cases
- Modal analysis and Body-in-White stiffness studies
- Wind turbine, vessel crash and water-splashing studies
- DoE and Machine Learning / ROM studies for material definitions
- Reporting, animation rendering and Bash/Python automation
Nov 2020 – Oct 2021
Associate Engineer
TECOSIM Romania · Full-time · Cluj, Romania
FEM crash & occupant-safety simulations — ANSA for preprocessing, Abaqus Explicit as solver, Animator for postprocessing:
- Building FE models and dummy/seating/belting simulations
- Component testing — fuel tanks, BEV batteries, bonnets, seat belt anchorage
- Validating simulations against hardware tests and reporting results
2016 – present
Automotive engineering studies
BSc, MSc and ongoing PhD in Automotive Engineering — full details on the Education page.
1996
Where it all began
Born in Romania — the rest, as they say, is history.
Education
2022 – present
PhD, Automotive Engineering (ongoing)
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
PhD thesis (in progress): “Studies and research regarding the production, storage and use of energy in vehicles' propulsion”
2020 – 2022
MSc, Advanced Techniques in Automotive Engineering — Porsche Engineering-supported
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
MSc thesis: “Modelling of a thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery and temperature control in a close-coupled three-way catalyst” — MATLAB & Simulink
- Turbocharger matching study (CI engine) — AVL Boost
- Electronic throttle flap control — MATLAB & Simulink
- Vehicle simulations — AVL Cruise / Cruise M
- Battery Management System study
2016 – 2020
BSc, Automotive Engineering Technology
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
BSc thesis: “Development of a combustion analysis program” — MATLAB & MATLAB GUI
- Common-rail injection system redesign (calculations & drawings)
- Manual gearbox redesign (calculations & drawings)
- ICE simulations — AVL Boost
Volunteering
Aug 2020 – Oct 2021
Simulation and Modelling Engineer
ART TU Cluj-Napoca — Formula Student Team
- Powertrain department — vehicle dynamics simulation (MATLAB & Simulink)
- Full vehicle model, acceleration-event dynamics and a torque vectoring algorithm
Skills & tools
Engineering
- AVL Boost
- AVL Cruise & Cruise M
- MATLAB & Simulink
Software
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Python
- Git
Coding Projects
This website — A bilingual personal site built from scratch with PHP, CSS and vanilla JavaScript — with an AI pair-programmer alongside, part of my ongoing effort to actually understand how these tools work.
(PHP, CSS, JavaScript)
Beam Analysis — An interactive structural beam calculator — shear force and bending moment diagrams plus deflection, solved analytically with Macaulay's method. My structural engineering background turned into code.
(Structural engineering, JavaScript, SVG)
Honors & awards
- Best bachelor's thesis, Faculty of Automotive, Mechatronics & Mechanical Engineering (2020)
- 3rd place, national phase — “Profesor Universitar Inginer Constantin Ghiulai” Vehicle Dynamics contest, SMAT Congress (2019)
- 2nd place, local phase — “Profesor Universitar Inginer Constantin Ghiulai” Vehicle Dynamics contest (2019)
Interests
- Engineering
- Technology
- Travel
- Music
- Books