MUKILAN MICHAEL

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actdtf@r.postjobfree.com 1031 S. Stewart, Apt. No. E2136, Mesa, AZ 85202 +1-480-***-**** Passionate mechanical engineering graduate, with four years of research experience and a strong foundation in the field of thermal science, added to effective project management, documentation, design and technical presentation skills, with an unquenched desire to innovate and build, seeking an entry level mechanical engineering job.

SKILLS

Project management and Leadership: Organized, scheduled test plans and completed along with a co-worker, a $500,000 gas turbine experimental research project funded by Solar Turbines during Master’s program.

Strong mechanical design knowledge: Designed an entire test rig using Pro-E and submitted a technical paper in an ASME conference; modeled an entire gas turbine test rig using Solidworks for technical reports.

Self-learner: Taught myself LabVIEW 2012; designed the data acquisition program for the gas turbine project.

Analytical and troubleshooting skills: Performed root cause analysis and solved technical issues and ensured smooth operation of the gas turbine project.

Technical writer, presenter and team player: Proficient with MS Office; presented team-oriented research works at various international conferences; 2 international journal publications, 1 conference proceeding.

WORK EXPERIENCE / MASTER’S THESIS

Graduate Research Assistant- Arizona State University, Tempe January 2014 – November 2015

Experimental Study of Main Gas Ingestion in a Subscale 1.5-stage Axial Flow Air Turbine

•Worked closely with the university’s technical team, submitted product specifications; supervised fabrication.

•Achieved 50% reduction in experiment time by analyzing and executing effective experiment strategies.

•Achieved experiment results repeatability of 98%, not subjective to turbine stage manual assembly.

•Prepared technical drawings using AutoCAD and Solidworks; submitted 7 technical reports to Solar Turbines.

•Commended by the project funding company Solar Turbines, for the quality of the experimental results.

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS PROJECT

CFD analysis of different pin type heat sink designs in a natural convective environment May 2015

•Modelled the heat sinks using Solidworks; performed thermal analysis using ANSYS CFX.

•Established the impact of the innovative heat sinks on heat transfer enhancement over conventional design.

•Commended by the course instructor for the quality of the simulation results.

PUBLICATION

Investigation of Methanol Based Air-Air Thermosyphon Heat Exchangers January 2013- April 2013

•Designed the entire experimental test rig using Pro Engineer and supervised the test-rig-building technical team.

•Documented the results and presented the work before a technical committee and audience at ASME 2013 IMECE conference (Proceedings of ASME IMECE 2013 conference, Paper No. IMECE2013-63693.)

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering August 2013 – December 2015

Arizona State University, Tempe (Cumulative GPA: 3.46/4.00)

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering September 2009 – May 2013 Anna University, Chennai, India (Cumulative GPA 3.50/4.00)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Documentation : Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Product modeling : AutoCAD, Solidworks, PTC Creo / Pro Engineer, Microsoft Visio

CFD Simulation : ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS CFX, COMSOL, ANSYS Icepak

Data acquisition : LabVIEW 2012

Programming : C, C++, Matlab