Engineer Mechanical

Palak P Desai

**** ********** ******* *****, *** L 817-***-****

Charlotte, NC 28262 *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

A fervent Mechanical Engineer seeking a full-time position in the field of manufacturing and product design to acquire

skills and knowledge by fully utilizing my abilities in problem solving and analytical thinking for the betterment of the

organization I work for

SUMMARY:

A creative and team-oriented individual with 3+ years experience as project engineer and research engineer

Worked as team leader and engineer for a fire prevention and safety design project at UNC Charlotte

Worked as a Manufacturing/ Project Engineer at Micron Engineers

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering specializing in heat transfer and product development

EDUCATION:

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, May 2011 (GPA 3.6)

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Sardar Patel University, India, July 2008 (GPA 3.2)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)

Member of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Research/ Project Engineer (March 2009 to May 2011)

Project leader and engineer for a DHS sponsored research project focused on the effectiveness of pre-applied

wetting agents in ultra Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fire prevention under the guidance of mentor Dr. Joe

Urbas

Developed the process to carry out the experiments which is to be certified as an ASTM standard

Implemented and analyzed new techniques to reduce the experimental time for improved efficiency

Achieved Critical Flux for Fire Growth (CFFG) values by executing tests with ASTM E 1623-04 standard test

method for Intermediate Scale Calorimeter (ICAL) for around 500 lab tests and large-scale fire testing

Executed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) for different

WUI fire scenarios to finalize the outcomes of the developed models

Programmed a module using C language to determine the heat release rate and mass loss rate of tested samples

Prepared reports and conducted data analysis for all the tests done over the period of two years

Micron Engineers: Manufacturing/ Project Engineer (December 2007 to November 2008)

Worked as a Manufacturing Engineer in a team for the industrial firm located in Gujarat, India

Work experience includes executing lean manufacturing technique for designing and process control of the

mechanical seals for the pressure vessels used in the chemical industries

Worked in 5S and Kaizen Projects for process improvement in production line similar to modern Six Sigma

process

Performed FMEA Analysis and PM Scheduling for the existing manufacturing line

TECHNICAL WRITING:

Palak Desai, “Effectiveness of Pre-applied Wetting agents as a function of Wildland Urban Interface Fire Exposures”,

Masters Thesis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2011), 1-80

Palak P Desai

9519 University Terrace Drive, Apt L 817-***-****

Charlotte, NC 28262 *********@*****.***

P Desai, J Urbas, J Kimble, D Murphy, A Zhou and R Myers. ” Effectiveness of pre-applied wetting agents in

prevention of wildland urban interface fires- full scale tests ”, Fire and Materials 2011, Interscience Communications

(2011), 519-530

Palak Desai and Joe Urbas. “The effectiveness of pre-applied wetting agents in prevention of WUI fire” Interflam

2010, Interscience Communications (2010), 1201-1212

PROJECTS:

“Design of a mechanical shaft with rectangular key” Fall 2009 . A mechanical drive shaft was designed successfully

with a rectangular key slot to use for an automotive vehicle. Drawings were prepared using AutoCAD and the stress

and strain analysis was done in MatLab software package

SKILLS & INTERESTS:

Proficient with AutoCAD, Solidworks, MathCAD, Fluent CFD software package, Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)

Programming languages: C, C++, MatLab

Microsoft Office: Excel, Excess, PowerPoint, Visio, Word

Technical interests include gaining expertise in manufacturing processes and product development

Personal interests include leadership development, customer interaction, personal and professional growth

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

Recipient of “Grad School Non-Residential Tuition Differential” scholarship

Presenter, “Fire and Materials 2011” conference in San Francisco, US in January 2011

Presenter, “Interflam 2010” conference in Nottingham, UK in July 2010

1st place, “Best Design” and “Best Fabrication” awards for designing a F1 scaled model car for an internationally

recognized competition held during TechFest-2008 at IIT, Bombay, India

3rd place, designed and built a bridge model for a national level competition held during TechFest-2007 at IIT,

Bombay, India

RELEVANT COURSES:

Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Mechanical Design, Computational Fluid

Dynamics, Advanced Conductive Heat Transfer, Principles of Fire Behavior, Enclosure Fire Dynamics

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