SULIPI SMITESH DESAI

phone: 714-***-**** • abjaq6@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

A talented and skilled engineer looking for a job opportunity in the field of CAE, FEA, Design Engineering and Product Development.

Remarkable qualities to work in a team and deliver presentations to small and large groups and also to handle projects with full efficiency to

reach the goals in scheduled time limit. Great sense of responsibility with problem solving and team leading skills.

EXPERIENCE

• Quality Assurance Engineer – MSC Software, Newport Beach, CA (March 2013 – Present)

o 1.5+ year of experience in Structural Design and Analysis of Real Life models.

o Applying CAE Techniques to resolve customer concerns/problems.

o Quality Assurance of various MSC Software products on a variety of computer systems.

o Participate in Software Development Lifecycle and execution of quality assurance tests, procedures, benchmarks and

documentations for new and enhanced products.

o Create test plans, test cases and test scripts based on project requirement documents.

o Execute Manual Test cases and verify the result with expected results. Finding defects, defect tracking, automated test

script development, agile testing.

o Execute Performance, Black Box and White Box Testing.

o Work closely with developers and business analysts to resolve defects and testability issues.

• 2+ year hands on experience in working with subsonic wind tunnel.

• Research Assistant (June 2011 – December 2011) – working on a project “Generalized Model for Solar Energy”.

• 8+ years academic experience in performing FEA & CFD simulations on simple and complex geometries, preparing

wind tunnel model and performing CFD analysis, CFD Mesh generation, designing, 3D modeling, assembling, CAD and CAM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• CAE Software: ANSYS FLUENT,NASTRAN, PATRAN, SimXpert, FEMAP,CFD Tutor, STAR-CCM+, OVERFLOW,

CFX, ADAMS, MSC Apex

• Grid/ Mesh Generation package: GAMBIT, STAR Design, GridGEN, HyperMesh

• CFD Output Plot: TecPlot360, SigmaPlot

• CAD Software: NX 9.0, Solid Works, AutoCAD, CATIA v5, Promodel, Pro-E

• Programming Language: MATLAB, C Language, C++, Python

• Operating System: Windows, Apple, Unix

EDUCATION

California State University, Long Beach, USA

• Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (GPA: 3.6/4)

• Thesis: CFD/FEM simulation of “Flow Past a Rotating Circular Cylinder with an End Plate”, using Star-CCM+

o Analyze flow characteristics at different linear and angular velocities and observe the effect of end plate.

o Analyze different contours of velocity, pressure, temperature and observe wake and vortices.

o Analyze lift and drag forces on the cylinder and comparing them with previous results.

Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, INDIA

• Bachelor of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering (GPA: 3.93/4)

• Thesis: CFD simulation on “Supercritical Airfoil at Transonic Speeds”, using FLUENT

o Analyze flow characteristics at different mach numbers and observe the contours of velocity, pressure and

temperature.

o Analyze lift and drag forces acting on the airfoil and observe wake and vortices.

PROJECTS & SEMINARS

• “Numerical Simulation as ODE of a 2 – D, Incompressible, Steady, Laminar Boundary Layer Equations”, using

MATLAB.

• “CAE Simulation of NACA 0012 Airfoil”, using OVERFLOW.

• “CAE Simulation of ONERA M 6 Wing”, using OVERFLOW.

• “Elliptic Grid Generation around an Airfoil”, using MATLAB.

• “CFD Simulation of Wing – Body Geometry”, using OVERFLOW.

• Design of “Working Assembly of Pulley Support System” and “6 Cylinder Piston Engine”, using NX6 and performing

FEA Analysis using NASTRAN.

• Design and Finite Element Analysis of a Flat Plate with a hole, using FEMAP and NASTRAN.

• “Modal Analysis of Aircraft Wing Box”, using FEMAP and NASTRAN.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Transport Aircraft Division, Kanpur, INDIA. In-Plant training on manufacturing and

maintenance of HS-748 AVRO aircraft.

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