Expertise:    Computer Aided Process Design
                      Process Model Data Fitting Using Optimization Methods
                      Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
                      Engineering Software Development 
                   
Dr. Charlie Li is a graduate of the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China, where he earned a  Bachelor and Master Degrees in Metalforming, and Wright State University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. At Harbin, Charlie worked on various metalforming processes, including drawing and extrusion. At Wright State, Charlie studied under Professor Ramana Grandhi and worked on forging process design software, heat treat process simulation models, and methods for optimizing heat transfer coefficients for quenching processes.

At DCT, Dr. Li has developed software to determine steel phase transformation kinetics parameters for both heating and cooling from dilatometry data. These parameters are used by the phase transformation kinetics calculations embedded in the DANTE heat treat simulation software. His next will be to develop a utility program for determining heat transfer coefficients from thermocouple data for instrumented parts during heat  treatment.

Charlie is married and has a 3 year old son. He and his wife keep close tabs on events in his homeland of China via satellite TV, and they enjoy the many programs that they receive.