AJAY BABU RENDUCHINTALA
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Lexington, KY, USA-40504 Ph# 859-***-****
SUMMARY
• Dual Master’s degrees in the fields of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
• 2+ years of Industrial work experience in the areas of Manufacturing Operations and Supply chain networks.
• Strong academic and research experience in the field of Finite Element Analysis.
• Project lead experience managing projects worth of $95K and managing several teams.
• Academic teaching experience with occasional lecturing and handling junior level engineering experimentation labs.
• Good communication skills handling multi inter departmental projects simultaneously and excellent in building
rapport with personnel from shop-floor to the top management.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Expected graduation – May, 2011
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY GPA-3.47/4.0
Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering September, 06
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY GPA-3.9/4.0
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering May, 04
Nagarjuna University, A.P., India
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
• Design Analysis using ANSYS – Static, Harmonic, Modal, Transient, Nonlinear, Solid Modeling and Contact Problems,
Active vibration Control, Numerical Integration Methods – Central Difference Method, Newmark’s method and Newton-
Raphson method for large deflection nonlinearities.
• Manufacturing Systems, Lean Philosophy, Supply chain Networks, Bar-coding techniques.
SIMULATIONS
Active Vibration Control (AVC) using ANSYS
Current Project - Application of AVC to a single-stage axial-flow low speed research compressor (LSRC) to
reduce vibration amplitudes of Rotor blades and Stator Vanes.
Proof of Concept – Reduced externally induced harmonic vibration amplitudes in a cantilever beam.
• Modal Analysis of the cantilever beam.
• Modeling of Piezo-electric patches on the cantilever beam to control the system response.
• Sub structural analysis of the setup to import the stiffness, mass and damping matrices into matlab.
• Application of Feedback controls theory to show the reduction in the aforesaid vibration amplitudes.
• Experimental verification of the above simulation work.
Nonlinear Transient FEA of a Cantilever beam parametric response including quadratic damping
• Implicit and Explicit Nonlinear harmonic transient analysis of a cantilever beam to study parametric response.
• Application of Quadratic damping methodology to substitute the ANSYS inbuilt damping module.
• Variation of quadratic damping coefficients over a range of excitation frequencies to study the effect on the
steady state amplitudes.
Academic FEA Design Optimization Projects
• Geometrical and cost optimization of a plastic bracket meeting the maximum Von Mises stress,
deflection and material criteria.
• Dynamic modeling of a multi degree freedom system under the influence of externally applied force.
• Modal analysis of a compressor rotor blade using 3D elements. The primary design goal is to minimize
blade weight while eliminating the interference condition and meeting the maximum radial deflection criterion.
Relevant Courses
Mechanical Vibrations, Advanced Dynamics, Nonlinear Oscillations, Advanced Heat Convection, Boundary Element Methods in
Engineering, Computational Techniques in Mechanical System Analysis,
Advanced Control System Analysis, Feedback Control Design.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1. Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky
Courses Assisted: Engineering Experimentation I&II Aug, 09 – Present
2. Manufacturing Systems Analyst – Schneider Electric, Oxford, OH Mar, 07 – Dec, 08
Materials/ Manufacturing Engineering group
• Implemented corporate owned bar-coding application in Kitting area to track inventory based on material
movements, so as to provide production availability reports for various manufacturing groups.
• Worked with third party to develop custom front end application that helps to perform localized logging
activities on the mobile RF instruments. Aimed at reducing the material handling moves.
• Created user friendly MS Access reports for planners to perform daily material requirement activities.
• Data Analysis – Studied and improved an algorithm to implement Mix-Modeling project.
Supply chain - Purchasing
• Identified a hardware material substitution project (C1060 to C1050 steel) that has high usage in various plants.
• Obtained quotes from a new vendor that showed initial savings.
• Project lead to substitute the hexavalent chromium plated parts to trivalent chromium parts (RoHS).
• Other duties included materials and purchasing system transactions, engineering change orders, RFQs, process
instructions, expediting, Kanban changes and managing key procuring parameters.
3. Quality Analyst – Custom Wiring Inc., Lexington, KY Sep, 06 – Jan, 07
• Troubleshot quality problems and assisted group leaders to inspect the product with a new design.
• Clarified quality issues of the re-sent parts and submitted corrective actions to the customers.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Simulation Tools: ANSYS, Matlab/SIMULINK, Pro-Model.
Experimentation Techniques: DAQ systems, Data analysis using Lab View, Multisim, Strain gauges, accelerometer
Drafting Tools: PRO/ENGINEER, AutoCAD.
Programming: MS-Access
References: Available upon request.