Matthew Ramirez is an experiment design engineer and holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University-Idaho. He has over 14 years of engineering experience working in both the private and government sectors.
Ramirez's seven years of private sector experience include serving as a project engineer for large-scale HVAC and industrial piping projects to being a lead mechanical engineer involving small- to large-scale ($90 million) projects for refineries (Chevron, British Petroleum, Husky, etc.) including designing and procuring multiple types of equipment (piping, heat exchangers, HVAC equipment, compressors, vessels, etc.). He has detailed experience using international and uniform building codes, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC), Section VIII, Divisions 1 and 2 for pressure vessel design, ASME B31.1 Power Piping codes, and using programs such as COMPRESS and FE/Pipe for analysis.
Ramirez has also spent seven years at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) working with the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF), the Idaho Cleanup Project (IEC) and Battelle Energy Alliance.
Ramirez was a senior mechanical engineer at NRF specializing in the Critical Systems Group over the Site Steam and Condensate System. He oversaw all maintenance and infrastructure improvements for boilers, pumps, piping and all other components of the critical system. Detailed experience using the ASME BPVC, Section 1 for power boilers and B31.1 Power Piping codes, equipment specifications, and design drawings for remodeling and installing new and existing boilers and piping.
Ramirez was a design engineer and a systems engineer at the Idaho Cleanup Project for several years. During his time on the spent nuclear fuels project as a design engineer he designed multiple tools to retrieve, and package spent nuclear fuels located under more than 20 feet of water. As a system engineer for the cleanup project, he worked on the Calcine Disposition Project, serving as the lead mechanical engineer on the Calcine Retrieval Project working to bring a full-scale integrated mock-up of a pneumatic transfer process/system to transfer high level waste for disposal. Ramirez worked in and with a broad range of disciplines/processes during the system design including instrumentation and controls, conceptual robotic design, electrical design, process, and instrumentation diagrams, drafting design, specifications, commissioning of equipment and systems, construction administration, ordering equipment, reports, seismic design, and analysis, and more.
Ramirez is currently an experiment design engineer primarily working with experiments for use in the Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility.
