Dipl.-Ing. Paul Penning

• Principal Engineer. o Development and control of drawing office working practices. o Development of restraint and steering wheel systems. • Product Engineer. o Modernise and align engineering drawings with manufacturing processes and procedures. Leamington Spa, Midlands, England. • Design Engineer. o Door trim design. Wolfsburg, Germany. o Detail structural design. • Aerodynamicist. o Rolling and static road wind tunnel test management and execution.

• Wind Tunnel Testing. o Race cars.  CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa.  Jordan Grand Prix, Silverstone, England. o Commercial Coach. • Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations. o Race cars. • Software Development.

To determine the influence of indirect maintenance costs on the replacement strategy for the 2000 ground-based vehicle fleet.

• Mill Safety Officer under the South African Health and Safety Act and ISO9002. • Management of 8 foremen, 10 planners and a workforce of 200 to achieve maintenance objectives of the 2000 ton per hour hot-rolled steel mill operating continuously on a 3 shift basis. o Breakdown, frequency, reactive and pro-active maintenance. o Weekly 2 shift maintenance shutdown. o Annual 6-week plant-wide maintenance shutdown.

Experimental and Computational Investigation into Race Car Aerodynamics.

Computer Aided Analysis of Mechanical Systems, Design, Laser Materials Processing, Numerical Methods, Aircraft Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, Vehicle Aerodynamics, Vehicle Propulsion.

Standard curriculum. Final year design project: Exterior design of a 25-seater, 12th scale touring bus.