Elijah Leonen

Part-time Lecturer

Boeing Stress Engineer

Elijah Leonen

Part-time Lecturer

Boeing Stress Engineer

Elijah Leonen is currently a full-time stress analysis engineer for Boeing on the 737 program. He is a part-time lecturer for the UW Bothell Department of Engineering & Mathematics in Mechanical Engineering. Leonen has also taught at UW Seattle and UW Tacoma through Boeing UW joint courses. He received his master's degree at UW Seattle and bachelor's degree at UW Bothell in Mechanical Engineering. Elijah is also part of two research publications for crumb rubber degradation in the journal of rubber research and material characterization of synthetic granular composites for ASTM. In addition, he has done research for UW's Rachel Carson research vessel for plume oscillation detections at sea. In his free time, he likes to go fishing, snowboarding and spend time with his dogs.

Education

  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • M.S. – Mechanical Engineering
  • University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
    • B.S. – Mechanical Engineering (Minor in Mathematics)
  • EIT License Certification (FE Exam passed)

Courses

  • B ME 221 Statics
  • B ME 332 Fluid Mechanics

Teaching Interests

Any stress analysis related courses (Statics, mechanics of materials, Finite Element Analysis)

Research and Scholarship Interests

Stress analysis for aerospace applications. Previously researched material characterization, material degradation, and ocean acoustics plume detection.

Creative Interests

3D printing

  • Bridge, John W., Cham Hang Yeung, Charles Liu, Elijah Leonen, Kristofer Weisshaupt, and Kaleb M. Dempsey. “Material Characterization Testing of Synthetic Granular Composites Used in Equine Sports Surfaces.” Journal of Testing and Evaluation 51, no. 2 (2023): 858–69. https://doi.org/10.1520/JTE20220091.
  • Bridge, J.W., Yeung, C.H., Ginos, J.E., Leonen, E.C et al. Comparison of degradation effects for three types of crumb rubber used on a sport surface. J Rubber Res 27, 529–540 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42464-024-00270-6.