Mechanical Engineer Engineering

Bharadwaj Prabhala **, Briarwood Ln, Apt *, Marlborough, MA 01752.

615-***-**** *********.*.********@*****.***

Objective: Seeking a challenging full time position as a Mechanical Engineer, where my education and experience can

contribute significantly.

Summary:

• Work experience of more than 2 years in Product design and development.

• Sound knowledge of solid modeling using various CAD packages and machine design.

• Sound technical knowledge in engineering processes.

• Good managerial capabilities and an excellent team player.

• Excellent verbal, oral and written communication skills.

• Good interpersonal relations.

Education:

Tennessee Technological University Master’s Degree Graduation: August’10

Major: Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.83/4.0 (expected)

Birla Institute of

Technology and Science – Pilani, India Bachelor’s Degree Graduation: May’06

Major: Mechanical Engineering GPA: 7.26/10.0

Work Experience:

Siemens Medical Solutions, Knoxville Student Intern/ Co-op Aug’09 – May’10

Created 3D CAD models using SOLID WORKS 2009 for integral components of medical devices like clinical

scanners and PET systems.

Completed various cost reduction projects by optimizing existing designs and creating alternate designs, thereby

reducing production cost by 10 to 15 % and thus achieving cost effectiveness.

Assisted the Mechanical R&D division in machine design from concept to implementation stage by performing

verification and validation by using thermal and tolerance analysis. Created part numbers, bill of materials (BOMs)

Engineering change orders (ECOs) and verified drawings for accuracy.

Interacted with vendors for requesting quotes, samples, prototypes and purchase requisitions to order components.

Extensively used ERP system (SAP).

Communicated technical and commercial issues within mechanical engineering and other cross functional teams and

participated in the complete product development.

Maintained ECO spreadsheets for various changes performed, technical report writing on the process of verification

and validation of new concepts and database management of models and drawings.

Performed assembly and disassembly of equipment, participated in design reviews and brainstorm sessions for new

concepts, cost reductions, and process improvements.

Tennessee Technological University Graduate Assistant Aug’07 – July’09

Worked on “The Shape of a sessile drop” as a part of Master’s thesis using SURFACE EVOLVER, thereby

understanding how liquids interact with composite materials with application of designing Super Hydrophobic

surfaces.

Participated in international conferences (APS, AICHE and Faraday’s discussion) and submitted papers in leading

journals (Langmuir and Europhysics letters).

Managed the operation of ME 4751 Energy Systems Laboratory with 35 undergraduate students by demonstrating

experiments and grading the reports. Conducted experiments like, Fluid Flow Measurement, Hot Wire Anemometry,

Transient Heat Transfer, Calibration of Thermocouples and Pressure transducers, Fan Performance, Measurement of

Viscosity and Density, Combustion and Refrigeration.

Set up of several experiments by interfacing with professors, vendors and technicians.

Taught the course as a full-time instructor for a class of 20 under graduate students during summer 2009.

Bharat Forge Ltd. Assistant Manager July’06 – July’07

Managed a team of two engineers and three draftsmen by coordinating project scheduling and work distribution.

Part of an elite team responsible for commissioning of machines, deciding specifications of machines which were

imported for 3-metre and 6-metre crankshaft projects.

Completed and delivered pin milling machines, journal and pin grinders and super finishing machines for crankshaft

machining.

Completed project on “Design and development of steady rest for GFM pin milling machines FKP 30 and FKP 20”.

Designed in-house machine sub assemblies, machine layouts, interaction with local vendors for manufacturing, in-

house inspection, assembly and testing.

Prepared kinematic diagrams, responsible for commissioning of machines, run trials for testing, reverse engineering

and retrofitting.

Achieved cost effectiveness by decreasing the design and production cost of the machines resulting in import

substitution.

Skills:

Modeling: SOLIDWORKS 2009, PRO-E, SOLID EDGE, CATIA, UNIGRPAHICS, AUTO CAD,

GAMBIT Surface Evolver, Team Center.

Analysis: FLUENT, CFdesign, ANSYS.

System proficiency: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Macromedia Dream weaver.

Programming: MATLAB, C, FORTRAN, BASIC JAVA.

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, UNIX, Linux.

Graduate and Under-graduate Projects:

Thesis: “The shape of a sessile drop”. Developed analytical solutions to predict the shape of the sessile drop and

developed triple line kinetic model with contact angle hysteresis to model the process of drop coalescence.

SEDV – Developed Solar Energy Driven Vehicle, as a part of tech festival APOGEE 2005 held at BITS-Pilani, which

won the Best Application Prize.

CREED – Worked on a project with the Center for Renewable Energy and Environmental Development- BITS Pilani,

in estimating the total power consumption on campus, suggesting energy saving methods.

BENCHMARKING – Worked on a study oriented project called “Benchmarking”, where around 40 existing

benchmarking models were analyzed and a new benchmarking model was proposed.

Engineering Intern – Completed project on CNC machines by developing G and M codes for profile cutting machines

at KLR Industries.

Journal publications and conference presentations:

B.R. Prabhala, M.V. Panchagnula, V. Subramanian and S. Vedantam, “Approximate analytical solutions for the

shape of a sessile drop”, Langmuir (in press) 2010.

B.R. Prabhala, M.V. Panchagnula, and S. Vedantam, “Equilibrium shapes of drops on a hysteretic surfaces”,

Europhysics letters (under review) 2010.

B.R. Prabhala (Presenter), M. V. Panchagnula V. Subramanian and S. Vedantam, “Analytical solutions for the

shape of sessile drop”, 62nd Annual meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2009.

B.R. Prabhala (Presenter), M. V. Panchagnula V. Subramanian and S. Vedantam, “Shape of liquid sessile drops and

drop coalescence”, AIChE Annual meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, 2009.

B.R. Prabhala, M. V. Panchagnula (Presenter) and S. Vedantam, “Equilibrium shapes of drops on a hysteretic

surfaces”, Faraday Discussion 146 Wetting Dynamics of Hydrophobic and Structured Surfaces, Richmond, Virginia,

2010.

Affiliations:

Member of American Physical Society (APS).

Related Coursework:

Computational Fluid dynamics, Combustion, Heat Transfer, Aerodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Adv. Viscous flow, Vibrations

of continuous media, Fluid mechanics of suspensions, Machine design, Thermodynamics, Power plant engineering and

Computer aided design.

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