Automotive - Fuel and Exterior Systems

I first worked in the automotive industry designing windshield washer systems for a tier-one supplier to the Chrysler small car and Jeep platforms. Not rocket science (that was in my aerospace days), but a great introduction to the vast amount of testing and prototyping that goes into producing just one small system on a car; in these cases, the Dodge Neon, Durango, and the Jeep Grand Cherokee. From there, I went to work on another relatively unseen, but quite important system, fuel tank assemblies. If I thought the testing and the failure mode analysis was involved on a windshield washer pump and nozzles, if was nothing to compare with fuel systems. A weight given to design that I still carry with me today.