Project Engineer

Shaikh Akhlaque-E-Rasul, PENG.

(Canadian Citizen)

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Cell: 514-***-****; E-mail: ******.********@*****.***

Winner of NSERC industrial funds for the contributions in FEM, Shell Element & Composite structure

German DAAD scholarship holder for the internship in Airbus, Germany

Internship in Alpha STAR (Developer of GENOA modeling software, California, USA)

GPA 4.2 out of 4.3

WORK AUTHORIZATION

Authorized to work in USA and Canada; and having security clearance to work in the government

projects and aerospace companies

Summary of Experience :

Key Skills Spacecraft Aerospace Automotive Materials Computer Software

Static Analysais AMOS6, Hylas-3, Tailboom Like Ford Fusion PP/Glass Composite, Hypermesh, LSDyna,

EDRS-C Structure, HMD Hood, GM Volt Metal NX NASTRAN

Fatigue Analysis AMOS6 Tapered Shell - Sandwich Composite ANSYS, NASTRAN

structure

Hand Calculation ExoMars Airplane structure GM Volt Metal, Sandwich MATLAB, Excel

University Project Composite

Dynamic Analysis AMOS6, Hylas-3, Tailboom, HMD Ford Fusion Sandwich Composite NASTRAN, ANSYS

EDRS-C Hood

Crash Analysis - - Ford Fusion PP/Glass Composite, Hypermesh, LSDyna

Hood, GM Volt Metal

Acoustic Analysis Hylas-3, EDRS-C - - Sandwich Composite, VA One

metal

Material Test & - - Ford Fusion Sandwich Composite MCQ

Characterization Hood

Full Scale Testing EDRS-A-ISL - Yo-Auto car Composite -

Reflector

R&D ExoMars Tapered Shell Yo-Auto car Composite Hypermesh, LSDyna,

structure NASTRAN

INDUSTRISL EXPERIENCE

MDA (Montreal, Canada)

MDA provides commercial customers, industrial partners and governments (civil, defense,

Jan 2013 security, space, and R&D agencies) with such information systems and solutions as space

Present robotics, satellite information and payload systems, etc. My responsibility is to analyze the

composite and metallic satellite structures especially the antenna using NASTRAN that include:

Collaborating with multi-disciplinary engineering team to develop state-of-the-art spacecraft

communication antennas, payloads or subsystems

FE Model checking of the satellite antenna (according to customer specifications)

Quasi-static, thermal and modal analyses

Sine analysis including notching

Random and acoustic analyses

Fatigue analysis

Composite/composite and composite/metal joint analysis

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Optimization of the composite and metallic structures (sizing, mass, etc) based on analyses

Electric Car Project (Detroit, USA)

Jan 2012 I was appointed for a temporary project of GM at Magna in Auburn Hill, MI as a Structural

Sept Engineer. My responsibility was to test, characterize and prepare the material cards for the

2012 analyses of plastic and composite structures that include:

Selection of right percentage of composite constituents (mainly propylene, glass fiber and

talc)

Selection of the right material cards based on material characteristics

Carrying out the stress analyses of electric battery packs

YO-AUTO Composite Car Project

I worked as a composite specialist to design and develop a low cost Russian Composite car.

Magana started to design this car and I worked only for concept face. My responsibilities were to:

Communicate with the consortium members [EDAG, ICT, Siebenwurst, FiberForge] to get

their input to the design

Conduct the tests and trials of composite car body-in-white

Calibrate the test results using Material Characterization software (MCQ)

Supervise the Design and CAE teams

Develop an optimized layup in collaboration with the design team

Develop the Bond/Bolt joints for the composite Body-in-white and seat

Selection of new materials for the composite structures

Train up the junior engineers

UNIVERSITY PROJECTS

Lightweight Automotive Materials Project –Lamp (Detroit, USA)

The mission of LAMP is to develop lightweight vehicles.

My task was to conduct the test, inspection of failure surface using SEM and

Jan 2011

characterization and also to model and analyze the lightweight Composite Hood

Dec 2011

Structures (of Ford Fusion) using ABAQUS and LS-DYNA.

I started to work in Wayne State University and went to AlphaSTAR, California, USA where I

learnt the material characterization using MCQ and GENOA (from July 2011 to Aug 2011).

CONCOM (Montreal, Canada)

I was involved with cost cutting efforts for different industrial projects at Concordia Center for Composites

(CONCOM), Montreal, Canada to solve the technical problems that were reported to CONCOM from the

industries:

Sept 2010 Helicopter Tail-boom Like Structure

Dec 2010 ● The buckling problem of helicopter tail-boom was reported to CONCOM by Bell Helicopter

Textron Canada Ltd, ● I was involved for the progressive failure, Fatigue and Damage

Tolerance (F&DT) and modal analyses of those structures, ● I was the lead-man of the

manufacturing, design and analysis focus group and my duty was to manage, conduct and

coordinate day-to-day routine activities for those projects.

Jan 2007 Tapered Curved Composite Structures

Aug 2010 ●Tapered curved structures are used in rotor blades, shovels, helicopter tail-boom and gun

barrel, ● I developed the design guidelines for this type of structures, ● For this purpose, I

analyzed the curved plates using several shell theories based on classical and higher order

theories, ● Based on global buckling, pl y failure and delamination analyses, I prepared the

design guidelines, ● Beside the linear shell theories, non-linear shell theories were also used, ●

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The ANSYS based results were verified with that of the Hand Calculations, ● My work of this

project has been presented in the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore, India.

Several papers have also been published in the peer reviewed international journals.

Sept 2005 Head Mounted Display (HMD)

Dec 2006 ● The existing HMD used in aerospace applications has some problems in terms of weight and

cost, ● I was assigned to modify the present model and to design a new HMD using the

lightest materials, ● I designed the different parts of HMD and assembled those parts using

CATIA, ● I selected ten candidate materials from 20,000 materials using ASHBY chart and the

final materials were selected based on decision making theory, ● The newly modeled HMD

was analyzed using finite element method (FEM), ● My works were appreciated by our project

manager and the method I applied to select the materials has been published in the journal.

Jan 2003 Tapered Composite Plates

Aug 2005 ● Tapered plates are frequently used in aerospace applications but the present behavior analysis

of this type of structures is not sufficient, ● My tasks were to manufacture and to analyze the

structural and material failures of tapered composite plates using FEM based on classical, first

order and third-order plate theories, ● My works have been published in three international

journals and have also been presented in three international conferences.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Code writing in MATLAB, C++, and FORTRAN

Experienced in Minitab, AutoCAD and CATIA

Advanced knowledge of NX NASTRAN, VA One, HyperMesh, ANSYS, LSDYNA,

ABAQUS and GENOA

Working knowledge in MS Works, MS Office, Primavera Project Planner, etc.

EDUCATION:

Concordia University, Canada

PhD, Mechanical Engineering,

Worked on the composite shell structures to find out a novel type of shape that can save

material without compromise with the strength.

Developed a novel, robust method of Finite Element (FE) for non-linear analysis

Developed new Finite Element (FE) for the analysis of shell structures

GPA 4.2

Concordia University, Canada

M. A. Sc., Mechanical Engineering, April 2005

Worked on several projects to evaluate the mechanical properties of fiber reinforced

composite materials.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) of Ontario, CANADA

Member of ASME, USA

Language: Fluent in English and learning French

Reference: Available upon request

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