Andres Orlando is a Senior Project Engineer with Jenike & Johanson. Andrés received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Granular Mechanics from Clarkson University. His graduate studies focused in computational modeling of granular materials flows and comparing numerical models against physical experiments.
Prior to joining Jenike & Johanson, he spent a year at the University of Southern California researching the micromechanical behavior of sheared sands. As a project engineer for Jenike & Johanson he has been involved in troubleshooting and recommending corrective action for solids flow problems, providing recommendations to avoid solid flow related problems in new installations, and the design of customized handling equipment related to this field.