Joan Wood is a staff engineer with the Mechanical & Structural Engineering Team at Equity. As a member of this team, she performs ASME Code compliance calculations and fitness-for-service (FFS) evaluations for in-service equipment using the Level 2 and Level 3 methodologies of API 579. Due to her area of interest in heat exchangers/heat transfer, she is the responsible engineer for several of Equity’s Section 8 Engineering Practices (EPs) for heat exchanger-related items and attends the API Refining Standards meetings, specifically, API 660, 661, 664, and 668.
Prior to Equity, she participated in two co-ops at Delta Systems, Inc., where she designed a streamlined changeover system for programming PCBs, improved a continuity tester by incorporating a date-coder and reducing changeovers, and redesigned the fixtures and structures used in a laser date coder system. Additionally, she redesigned a series of marine switches, designed fixtures to aid in programming and measuring, and analyzed the data from force and IP67 tests that she carried out. Joan also participated in a co-op at Moen, Inc., where she developed the on-platform trim limits and technical design review for 1-handle lavatory faucets, performed various lab tests, analyzed the resulting data, and provided solutions to problems.
Joan is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.
