# Dana Frankel

> Product Design Materials Engineer at Apple

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danafrankel

Materials scientist with a strong background in physical metallurgy, alloy design, and ICME methodologies.

## Work Experience
### Materials Engineer - Product Design Materials (Alloys team) @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States

### Manager of Design and Product Development @ QuesTek Innovations LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Evanston, Illinois, United States
I lead QuesTek's Design Group, where we focus on applying innovative ICME tools to design and optimize high-performance materials and alloys for a wide range of applications.

### Materials Design Engineer @ QuesTek Innovations LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Evanston, IL
Project lead and materials designer for numerous commercial and government projects focusing on alloy design for automotive, aerospace, energy, and defense applications. Technical focus areas included:
*Modeling process-structure and structure-property relationships
*Alloy design (stainless steels, high strength steel, cast steel, cast iron, aluminum, bronze, refractories, superalloys, magnetic materials, and more)
*Design and optimization of materials for additive manufacturing (AM)

### Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science @ Northwestern University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Evanston, Illinois, United States
Graduate student in Professor Greg Olson's lab. 
Research topic: Design of fatigue resistant and biocompatible shape memory alloys for biomedical applications

### Materials Analysis Engineer @ Intel
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
As part of the OR Materials Analysis Lab's SEM/EDS and AFM groups, I supported technology development and factory operations.

### Rotation Engineer @ Intel
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Rotation 1 - Failure Analysis Engineer
   Focused on developing a method for STEM sample preparation to assist the failure analysis lab in supporting the newest technology processes

Rotation 2 - Quality & Reliability Engineer
   Performed end-of-life study on Lenovo T42s in the field and correlated failure analysis results to existing models regarding solder joint reliability in order to evaluate their accuracy.

Rotation 3 - Software Engineer
   Worked closely with Intel's core techology and design layout rules to help implement an engine that will improve design rule checking across multiple layout tools.

### Summer Intern @ Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Research Project: Selective phase dissolution in directionally-solidified ternary metallic systems. Responsibilities included fabrication of electrodes, setup of electrochemical cells, optimization of dissolution process, characterization of resulting microstructure using optical and SEM techniques.


## Education
### PhD in Materials Science
Northwestern University

### Sc.B. in Materials Engineering
Brown University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danafrankel

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Last updated: 2026-04-13