AMAR NIVARTHI E.I.T.

**** ***** **** ***, ***** Rouge, LA-70820

abhf6a@r.postjobfree.com

Ph: 225-***-****

Objective:

Actively seeking a full time position as a Mechanical Engineer with a goal

of gaining broader expertise and further experience in the field of

product development, application engineering and project management.

Education:

Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University (LSU) (GPA:

3.8/4.0) Jan 05- Dec 07

Certificate Course in Business Administration, Houston Community College

(GPA: 4.0/4.0) Jun 09- Dec 09

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, University College of Engg., Osmania

University, (GPA: 3.9/4.0) Sep 00- Apr 04

Areas of Expertise Prototype Design, Wear Testing, Flow Simulation (CFD), plastic

molding, product life cycle process, mechanical seals, bearings

stress/thermal analysis (FEA),, pumps, compressors, motors,

PLC, motion controllers, sensors, DAQ, instrumentation,

electro-mechanical device assembly, rapid prototyping, root

cause (RCA), failure mode detection (FMEA), FDA/UL/NSF

regulations, agency approved medical materials, plastics,

thermosets, thermoplastics, polymers, ceramics, medical grade

bonding & coatings, bearing grade steels, Tolerance Stackup.

Application Design, Drafting and Modeling: ASME Y14.5M-1994 GD&T

Software Experience with AutoCAD 2D, Autodesk Inventor, Pro/Engineer

Wildfire 4.0, SOLIDWORKS (2009/2010)

CFD packages: GAMBIT 2.4.6, FLUENT 6.3.26, SolidWorks FloWorks.

FEA package: Thermal/ Structural analysis in ANSYS V11,

SolidWorks SimulationWorks

MATH packages: MATLAB R2009a, MAPLE V13, Engineering Equation

Solver (EES).

Data Acquisition softwares: LabVIEW 8.0 and DAQ View graphical

interfaces.

General Software: Windows 95/98/NT/XP, C, MS Word, Access,

Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop.

Professional Experience:

. Inventherm LLC, R&D Design Engineer (Senior), Medical Device Design

January 2010-Present

- Developed prototype design of components such as piston, stator, valve

& valve seat and measurement fixtures for a Compressor product used in

a FDA regulated Respirator.

- Performed Kinematic and Dynamic analysis of an eccentric shaft based

vane and bushing mechanism to determine the contact forces and motion

path.

- Lead a team in conducting long term wear testing of coated compressor

components and polymer parts and analyzed the wear rate under varying

parameters. Used data acquisition devices (DAQ, Oscilloscope etc.)

- Participated in review of customer requirements with their design &

marketing teams. Established design solutions to meet product

requirements factoring in performance, cost and schedule.

- Conducted full scale compressor life tests at alternating conditions

and configurations to enhance the performance of the compressor unit

under peak operating conditions.

- Performed FEA of contact stresses between the bushing and bearing and

other mating components.

- Inspection of manufactured parts using metrology instruments like CMM

(Brown & Sharpe), Surface Profilometer (Mitutoyo) and measuring

Microscope (National).

- Interfaced with client engineering and production teams regarding

design changes and engineering change requests. Developed and reviewed

supplier quotes in order to obtain the best products.

- Reviewed project-related documentation to ensure its accuracy and

performed Tolerance Stackup analysis.

- Modified the product parts using various industrial hard and soft

coatings and PTFE based plastics.

- Produced manufacturing drawings &3D solid models of the compressor

components and reviewed drawings of proposed and released designs

for accuracy, material selection, finishes and GD&T.

. Fluor Enterprises Inc, Associate Design Engineer II, Mechanical

Design January 2008-April 2009

- Duties included compiling design specification, preparation of

tenders, vendors' bid evaluation /technical recommendation and

review of vendor's detailed engineering documentation for compliance

with project specifications

- Duties also include developing equipment data sheet, Piping and

instrument diagrams, RFQ, Purchase Order and Technical Bid

Evaluation

- Performed thermal and mechanical Design of Equipment using

proprietary CFD and FEA software based on Industry regulated

standards.

- Review vendor documentation and go on occasional field visits to

ensure compliance.

. Pratt & Whitney / Turbine Energy Research Lab, LSU - Research

Assistant January 2005-December 2007

- Duties included design & conducting of detailed experiments, data

processing & analysis and presentation of results to the project

sponsor.

- Gained experience in setting up of data acquisition equipment

(LABVIEW, DAQ boards), sensors (thermocouples, pressure transducers,

pitot tubes) and flow networks.

- Developed 3-D model in SOLIDWORKS and validating design using ANSYS.

- Developed and validated the novel endoscope technique for measuring

heat transfer.

- Assisted in the teaching & tutoring of Heat Transfer, Aerodynamics

and Heat Transfer Lab.

. Intern, Asst Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, India

August 2004-December 2004

- Part of a team involved in developing a billing system Module for

Shipping Company .

- Developed database linked Graphical User Interfaces using Java

Swings in a Model-View-Controller frame work.

. Intern, Advanced Systems Laboratory, DRDO, India

January 2004-May 2004

- Developed a Finite Volume based program routine in C++ to predict

the temperature profile in a Solid Rocket Motor Nozzle.

- Developed Solid Model of the Nozzle in Pro/Engineer.

- Used Tri-Diagonal Matrix Algorithm to solve the diffusion equation

and verified the program output with experimental results.

Thesis Project:

. Impingement Heat Transfer measurements in a Gas Turbine using Liquid

Crystal Thermography (Sponsored by Pratt & Whitney)

- Objective was to develop a new cooling configuration for the leading

edge of a Gas Turbine Blade.

- Developed a novel endoscope (CCD camera-Endoscope combination) based

liquid crystal thermography technique for measuring heat transfer in

traditionally inaccessible cavities

- Designed and built the test rig for a scaled up gas turbine blade

using Solidworks and ANSYS.

- Developed a suite of programs in MATLAB for performing hue based

image analysis to extract results and used these results to validate

the CFD simulation developed at Pratt and Whitney

Publications:

- Submitted a paper titled "Impingement Heat Transfer Coefficients in

A Turbine Vane Leading Edge Cavity with Coolant Bleed"- for IGTI

Conference-2011 (Publication under review).

- Submitted a paper titled "INFORMATION THEORY BASED UNDERSTANDING OF

ENTROPY" as a part of course work for Advanced Thermodynamics at

Louisiana state university.

- Presented a paper titled "EVALUATION AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF

HEAT TRANSFER IN A SOLID ROCKET MOTOR NOZZLE" at Indian Institute of

Technology, Roorkee.

Relevant Courses:

Numerical Methods in applied mechanics (FEA, FDA, SVD), Advanced Fluid

Dynamics, Advanced Heat Transfer (Conduction), Advanced Thermodynamics,

Convection Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Application of

Numerical methods in practice (Independent Study), Thermodynamics of

Solids

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