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AKSHAY KUMAR NATOJI SHARA

*** *. ***** ****, *** no. 3010, Tempe, AZ 85283

acv9s1@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/akakshaykumar

Summary .

Aerospace Masters Graduate with main focus on Product Design & Development having 5+ years of experience in 2D & 3D mechanical design & over a year of experience in project management and two strong internship experiences. Core competency includes

CAD modelling: SolidWorks, CATIA, ProE/CREO, AutoCAD

Machine Design, Vibration & Stress Analysis, Drafting

Product development & Detailed Engineering Design

CFD, Finite Element Analysis in Ansys, Abaqus

Education .

Master of Science: Aerospace engineering May 2016

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona GPA 3.42/4 Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering June 2014 Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India GPA 8.48/10 Technical Skill Set .

CAE Softwares: Ansys, Abaqus.

CAD Softwares: CATIA V5 (certified), SolidWorks, ProE/CREO, Unigraphics NX, Autodesk Fusion 360, AutoCAD, and SolidEdge.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Python and FORTRAN.

Miscellaneous: MatLab, Windchill PDMLink, MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, access etc.), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator. Work Experience .

Project Engineer – Meru Precision Industries June 2013 – July 2014

Developed new products from conception to production release & performed design validation.

Designed reduction gear boxes, special gauges, linear actuators, steering systems and press tools.

Analyzed customer engineering drawings,datasheets and specifications to evaluate engineering conformity, feasibility, budget.

Worked closely with leading engineers to create designs, prototypes, FEA simulations, BOMs and manufacturing support documentation.

Created design changes, product specifications, drawing releases and documentations as required as part of ECO

Innovative solutions utilized to optimize the production process, improve quality and make it cost effective. Engineering Intern - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Feb 2014 – March 2014

Lead a 3 member team to improve the manufacturing process for an Ejector Release Unit of a Crutch Fairing.

Succeeded in reducing the cycle time by 43 % and the cost of manufacturing by 51%.

Achieved interchangeability in the design while keeping tolerance in a desirable range.

Modelling of the assembly was done in SolidWorks & Feasibility and Safety analysis was conducted using Ansys.

Improved the dimensional accuracy and the ease of manufacturing. Engineering Intern - Meru Precision Industries June 2012 – September 2012

Design and Development of High Reduction Gear Box

Successfully designed, fabricated and tested a High Reduction Gear Box and accomplished a reduction ratio of 1500:1.

Achieved making the gear box compact, low weight, efficient, co-axial and no oil contamination.

Proposed grinding of the teeth to achieve greater accuracy, no backlash, reduce profile errors and pitch inaccuracies. Academic Projects .

Design of aircraft fuselage - Design of Aerospace Structures Spring 2015

Successfully developed a minimum weight skin-stiffener design of an aircraft fuselage for both metallic and a composite structures.

Automated program was coded to conduct trade studies to identify the optimum weight from different configurations.

Designed a Z stiffener to help with buckling and shear stress to allow the reduction in skin thickness.

Determined the design parameters which affect the overall weight and factor of safety. Design of a Picosatellite (.5U) - Interplanetary Picosatellite design Fall 2014

Performed as a Systems Engineer in a 9 member interdisciplinary team to design a Picosat to land on Apophis Asteroid.

Designed a satellite to perform a penetrometry experiment in a 0.5U form factor spacecraft.

Developed an operational design and Spacecraft Requirement Document for the entire mission.

Conducted a thorough Risk Analysis on the entire mission and performed Structural Analysis on the satellite.

Worked with the instruments engineer to down select required instruments based on flight heritage, mass & operating temperature.

Worked with the Power engineer to calculate the power requirements at each operational stage of the Picosat. CFD solver for a 2D Navier Stokes Equation - Computational Fluid Dynamics Spring 2016

Successfully Validated the Navier Stokes CFD solver on a staggered mesh using an automated program coded in FORTRAN.

Adams Bashforth-Crank Nicholoson’s method was utilized for the predictor step and V-cycle multigrid for Poisson’s Equation.

GCI analysis was conducted to verify and validate the solver.

Further analysis was conducted by introducing a dye into the flow and see its effects clearly movies of the flow was created.

Reynolds number and Schmidt number were varied and the changes in the outcome was analyzed. Virtual Wind Tunnel, Nozzle Flow and Effects of Multiphase Flows Fall 2015

Successfully tested and validated the flow past a cylinder and a fish body (both 2D and 3D) and flow through a nozzle in Ansys

Determined the interactions of multiphase fluids (air, Engine oil and water) with one another at different time periods.

Analyzed the changes occurring on the outcome due to the result of offsetting the half fish profile by different angles & changing pressures

Developed an automated program to generate co-ordinate file of a half fish and a nozzle profile.

Programmed a User Defined Function program to obtain a parabolic velocity profile and analyzed its effects on the result. Optimize the design of the composite panel - Polymers & Composites Spring 2015

Successfully developed a square plate of composites panel the lowest possible panel weight to support the applied loads.

Designed panels to include the residual stresses due to cooling from cure temperature of 125ºC to room temperature of 25ºC.

The design included a factor of safety of greater than or equal to one, in accordance with Tsai-Hill failure criterion. Supervised the various manufacturing processes and monitored quality of the products.

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