Engineer Project

Sudhaker Chhabra, PhD

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Email: ********.*******@*****.***

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhakerchhabra

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCES

3 years Project Management & 1 year Product Development & Management experience: design, budget (BOM), & build, and test industrial rigs or bulk manufacturing product

2 years of Oil/Chemical industry experience (Heat exchanger design & applications)

2 years CFD Experience in simulation tools: ANSYS-WB, Fluent, & Gambit

Over 7 years of experimental experience: design, machine, & build setups/rigs

Over 7 years of experience in laser-based measurement & visualization: PIV, LIF, & LDV

1 year of Photolithography experience (Micron employee)

1 year of experience in various technical software and tools such as K2VIEW, Klarity, JMP, SPC, DoE, Fab tracking and data processing tools.

1 year of experience in managing lots in Fab, & developing photolithography processes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

R&D Project Engineer (Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer), Heat Transfer Research, Inc. (HTRI), College Station, TX (USA) March 2009 - November 2010

Job responsibilities: Write proposal, Budget, and Manage flow visualization and CFD projects on heat exchangers. Work as Laser Safety Officer and laser lab in-charge. Conduct R&D experiments on a variety of heat exchangers, and publish internal and external reports and present research findings in HTRI or external conferences.

Completed Projects/Tasks: Managed a CFD project and two experimental projects which focused on the single- and two-phase flows in shell-and-tube heat exchangers and large diameter pipes; Completed bench-top experiments to demonstrate flow visualization tools; Published 6 internal reports/proposals, 1 HTRI publication, 2 magazine articles, & presented research in 2 HTRI conferences/meetings.

R&D Product Development Engineer, Transform Manufacturing, Boise, ID (USA) July 2011-July 2012

Job responsibilities: Develop next-generation solar-cell modules using SLIVER solar-cells; Manage Product Development Projects: design, budget (BOM), plan, and test modules; Assign, and review reliability data, and ensure TUV certification compliance; Prepare TUV documents, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and drawing package.

Completed Project(s): Developed XSOL-SLIVER (a Crystalline Silicon (c-Si) solar cell) module. Worked as Project Engineer & Product Development Engineer for this project. The R&D budget of the project was ~$500K & production budget is ~ $80M.

R&D Process Engineer, Micron Technology Inc., Boise, ID (USA) July 2012 - Present

Job responsibilities: Develop new processes; analyze and improve existing technology to develop next generation memory chips. Use existing processes or propose new processes to build memory chips, use statistical analysis methods to evaluate system/process maturity & propose improvements as deemed necessary, and design experiment (DoE) to evaluate part type or process reliability & repeatability.

Completed Projects: Developed/improved processes to build next generation memory chip. Actively participated as Photolithography expert during complete product development cycle starting from inception to bulk production. The part type name and technology can't be disclosed.

Undergraduate trainee, India 1998 - 1999

National Fertilizers Limited: Recommend efficiency improvements in Ammonia plant

Golcha R&D Division: Measured particle distribution to ensure uniform stone-powder

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Engineering: P&ID/PID, CFD, Mechanical/Machine drawings (AutoCAD/Solid works); design & budget rigs, hands-on experience on industrial size rigs, instrumentation, c-Si Solar Cells, Product reliability testing,

Project Management, Product Development.

Numerical Simulation/ Computational fluid dynamics: Fluent, FIDAP, Gambit, ANSYS-WB

Flow visualization: PIV, Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Hot wire anemometry, LDV

Technical Software: Matlab, Tecplot, Maple, SPSS, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, LabVIEW, Visio

Programming Language: C, C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Java, MS-Access, Oracle, and SQL.

Silicon Industry: JMP, Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), K2View, Klarity, Various fab tracking and data processing software.

CERTIFICATES AND TRAININGS

LabVIEW Programmer Core 1 & Core 2 trainings (5 Day course & certificate)

CFD simulations using Fluent and Gambit (Self training - a 5 day course)

Laser Safety Officer training and Certificate (Online 8 course and certificate)

EDUCATION

PhD, Bio-Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware January 2009

Thesis: Fluid and particle dispersion in lung acini

Masters of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware August 2004

Thesis: Behavior of a turbulent axisymmetric jet in a viscous host

Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering, I.I.T-Delhi May 2000

Thesis: Modeling of residence time distribution in liquid trickle bed reactors

ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering

University of Delaware July 2002 - January 2009

Performed two-phase CFD simulations for PEM fuel-cell using Fluent & Gambit

Constructed an in-vitro model of a single human alveolus to mimic realistic breathing

Experimentally measured velocity field & performed particle tracking using Matlab

Developed Matlab tools to calculate velocity fields from PIV double frames

Characterized particle dispersion for next-generation inhalers

Experimentally measured velocity and concentration fields for turbulent jets

Undergraduate Researcher, Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) - Delhi July 1998-May 2000

Senior Design Project: Residence time distribution in liquid trickle bed reactors

Semester project: Modeled membrane reactors for optimization

PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWER ACTIVITIES

Published 5 journal articles in Journal of Fluid Engineering, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, & Experiments in Fluids. 2 Journal articles are in preparation.

Presented graduate research in 11 conferences, & published in conference proceedings

Reviewer for Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Journal of Fluid Engineering, Summer Bio-Engineering Conference, and Heat Transfer Research

AWARDS AND HONORS

Invited presentation, US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2010)

Best Dissertation, Bio-Mechanical Engineering, U of Delaware (2009)

Poster award, ASME: Summer Bio-engineering Conference (2008)

Professional development award, Grad studies office, U of Delaware (2007 and 2008)

Cumulative outstanding contribution to Hostel Life, Karakoram Hostel, I.I.T-Delhi (2000)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Indian Graduate Students Association at U. Delaware: Cultural Secretary, Web-designer

Led a team of volunteers for Literacy and Tree Plantation committee of National Service Scheme (a volunteer organization) in I.I.T Delhi.

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