Power Plant Engineering
Resume:
AKSHAY ODUGOUDAR
Pittsburgh, PA-15232
***************@*****.***
Education:
Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (GPA 3.75)
April, 2010.
B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Karnataka, India.
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications (77.14%)
July, 2007.
Work Experience:
Graduate Research Assistant, Power and Energy Research Group, Swanson
School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. (January, 2010-Present)
. Smart Grid Interface Control Methodology Development for Integrated
Energy Resource Management.
. Analyze the stochastic and intermittent nature of renewable energy
resources.
. Predict the future market trend in energy demand.
. Analyze the issues related to the integration of renewable resources
into the smart grid.
. Provide possible list of solutions to Westinghouse Nuclear to improve
nuclear portfolio in the future energy market.
. Work on the concepts of load following and integration of energy
storage in nuclear power plant.
Graduate Research Assistant, RFID Centre of Excellence, Swanson School of
Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
(August, 2009 -December, 2009)
. Built circuit boards for iRLTs device.
. Built an FDA torso for testing the interference of RF signals with the
pacemaker.
. Tested different pacemakers for interference of RF signals.
Graduate Research Assistant, Drexel Plasma Institute, Drexel University,
Philadelphia. (May, 2009-July, 2009)
. Generated a single stranded plasma discharge to study the reaction of
plasma to dielectrics.
. Studied the effect of nebulized water particles on plasma by capturing
fast motion pictures.
Systems Developer, Network Computing Solutions 6G, Dharwad, Karnataka,
India. (August, 2007-May, 2008)
. Technical team lead.
. Built customized Linux operating system for Network Edge Security
Device (NeSA).
. Installed and configured Squid Proxy and Iptables packages.
Skill Set:
Applications: Matlab, Power World, AutoCAD, PSCAD/EMTDC, PSS/E, MS office
suite.
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux.
Programming Languages: C, C++.
Scripting Language: TCL, Bash.
HDL: VHDL, Verilog.
Tools: Cadence Virtuoso, Encounter, Modelsim, Synopsis, XPS.
Relevant Coursework:
Power Distribution Engineering and Smart Grid, Power Electronics, Power
system Analysis, Alternative and Renewable energy resources, Power
Generation, Operation and Control, Power system Analysis 2, Power
Electronics Devices, Basics of Electrical Engineering, Computer
Architecture, VLSI Design, Hardware Design Methodology, System on a Chip,
Digital Design, Analog Communication.
Academic Projects:
1. Load flow analysis using Power World.
. Case study of an existing power grid.
. Determined optimal solution when one of the transmission lines
goes down.
. All loads were served with the contingencies satisfied.
2. Power Distribution Engineering.
. Studied the line diagram of Waltz Mill Substation.
. Performed power system reliability study on the line diagram.
. Visited the Waltz Mill substation.
. Visited EATON power system experience center.
3. Transmission System Analysis using PSS/E
. Load Flow Analysis
. Fault Analysis (Line to Line and Line to Ground).
. Transmission Line Parameters.
. Short Circuit Analysis.
4. Transient Analysis of RC circuit.
. Designed an RC circuit to power an RF device.
. Studied the transient analysis with varied frequency, voltage
and switching time inputs.
. Tool used: PSPICE.
5. Network on a Chip Equidistant Interconnect Tree.
. Designed a chip with 4 processors with equidistant communicating
paths.
. Used multiplexers to define core priority.
. Used round robin logic to prioritize processors.
. Tool used: Cadence Encounter Place and Reoute.
6. Multiprocessor Chip design (SOC).
. Designed a multiprocessor chip using Power PC and microblaze.
. Instructions were fed into the Power PC and it in turn multi
tasked using an array of microblaze.
. Built package coder/decoder logic for information to be
transmitted to and fro between the processors.
. FPGA used: Xilinx ML 403.
Extracurricular Activities:
. Member of the IEEE PES society.
. Secretary of the Electronics Association, Dept. of Electronics and
Communication, BVBCET. (August, 2006- August, 2007)
. Lead Volunteer at the Hubli Destination IT Meet, 2006-07.
. Member of Cultural Committee to organize the annual university
festival '05.
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