Mechanical Engineering

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Southwest Pkwy, College Station, TX *****

ASHWINI POTHULA (979) 255

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SUMMARY 2 years of work experience in Pro/E, AutoCAD and Ansys

Strong background in Mechanical Design, Structural and Vibration

Analysis

In-depth knowledge of testing practices and Manufacturing procedures

Excellent programming skills in MATLAB/Simulink

Well established Analysis, troubleshooting, communication skills and

team spirit

Hardworking, detail oriented and able to multi-task effectively

EDUCATION Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, August 2009

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA, GPA- 3.52/4.0

Thesis - "Effect of Damping on Accelerated Life Testing", Baxter

Laboratory, NIU

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, May 2006

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, First class with

Distinction

Project - "Developing a CNC Programming for the machining of steam

turbine guide blade grooves"

EXPERIENCE Research Associate, February 2010 - Present

Collision Research Associates, College Station, TX

Drafting 3D vehicles and the road environment in AutoCAD and 3ds Max

Worked on part modeling, Assembly and mechanisms of vehicle parts like

brakes using Pro-E

Working Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance

Estimating the speed and path of travel of the vehicles and evaluating

the cause of collision

Creating animations of the sequence of accident

Evaluating the dynamic handling behavior of vehicles to simulate the

crashes using Human

Vehicle Environment (HVE) Software

Graduate Research Assistant, January 2009 - August 2009

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

Carried out a research on FE Model Updating for damage detection on an

Aluminum structure

Updated the Stiffness, Mass, and Damping matrices using Matlab from the

experimental

modeshapes obtained

Graduate Teaching Assistant, August 2007 - December 2008

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

Developed a Standardized procedure manual for Vibration laboratory

Assisted students with basic experiments to verify the theory of

Mechanical Vibrations

Audited students in performance tasks involving recording the real time

data and helped them in analyzing the data

PROJECTS Effect of Damping on Accelerated Life Testing

Estimated the Damping material properties using ASTM Standards

Worked on the Electrodynamic shaker to observe the fatigue life of the

Aluminum beams at high

levels (HALT)

Calculated the fatigue life using different theories and compared it

with the experimental results

Studied the effect of damping on the Accelerated Life Testing

Design of Transmission System

Design automotive parts like Chassis, Brake Pedal, Steering wheel,

Brake Drum, and Front wheel

rim using Pro/E

Generate drawings & specifications for the different automotive

components and develop

Designs to conform to Structural requirements, performance, cost

expectations and manufacturing efficiency

Fatigue Life of the Various Structural Beams

Modeled the desired Aluminum beam using Pro/Engineer Wildfire

Evaluated the natural frequencies and damping ratios of various

structures using shaker test,

hammer test, and impedance method

Calculated the theoretical Natural frequencies, Damping ratios and done

stress analysis to find the

stresses acting on the structure to find the breaking point using Ansys

software

Computed Power Spectral Density (PSD) using Ansys software and the

fatigue life of the

structure using nCode software

Nanofluid Flow & Heat-Transfer Apparatus

A steady-state thermal-conductivity (SSTC) and Nanofluid Flow &

Heat-Transfer (N-FHT)

apparatus are designed in AutoCAD

The research apparatus was fabricated and calibrated to measure the

thermo-mechanical

properties, as well as the flow and heat transfer characteristics of

Nanofluids

Modal Reduction of a Large System

Evaluated the Natural frequency and mode shapes of a large system

Developed a Matlab program for modal reduction

Developed a Matlab program to calculate the resonance of the structure

CNC Programming for the Machining of Steam Turbine Guide Blade Grooves

Performed a systematic study on steam turbine blades

Developed a CNC program for steam turbine guide blade grooves

REFERRED A.Pothula, A.Gupta and G. R. Kathawate (2011) "Effect of loss factor on

JOURNALS Accelerated Testing".

Journal of Sound and Vibration [under second review]

AWARDS 2nd Prize, Poster presentation, SAE Noise and Vibration International

Conference, Elgin, IL, 2009

Northern Illinois University Scholarship grant, DeKalb, IL, Spring 2007

AFFILIATION Member, Society of Automotive Engineers

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

SKILLS Design Tools : Pro/E, AutoCAD, Solid Works, 3ds Max,

Rhinoceros

Analysis Tools : ANSYS,Lab View, Glyph works, Pulse,

SDTools, nCode, HVE

Applications : Matlab, Maple, Mathcad, CNC

Fanuc/Sinumeric Programming, Photoshop

Operating Systems : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, MacOS

Languages : C and Data Structures

Office Tools : Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio,

Open Office

COURSEWORK Fundamental Vibrations, Heat Transfer, Fluid mechanics, Design of

Machine and Machine Elements,

Kinematics of Machinery, Production Technology, Finite Element

Analysis, Linear Numerical

Algebra and Applications, CAD/CAM and Pro/E, Advanced Mechanics of

Materials, Theory of

Machines, Experimental Vibrations, Advanced Vibrations

References available upon request

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