Project Engineering

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Des Plaines, IL 60016

(847) 454 - 4209

Objective

Seeking a challenging position in the field of chemical engineering.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

May 2010

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC): GPA 3.13/4.0

Relevant Experience

Project Leader, Senior Design II, UIC

January 10 - May 10

Project Title: Separation of Phenols from Pyrolysis Oil for Green

Adhesive Production.

Client Mentors: Bill Keesom, Dennis O'Brien, Jacobs Consultancy. Dr.

Jeffery Perl, Chicago Chem Consultants.

. Assigned specific tasks to 5 team members and held daily meetings to

check progress.

. Modeled the entire process using Aspen Plus and HYSYS.

. Calculated equipment cost and overall plant cost using the Aspen

Process Economic Analyzer.

. Presented progress as a group in front of client mentors, teachers

and students every 3 weeks.

. Won 1st place in AIChE poster competition and Engineering Expo.

Team Leader, Unit Operations Laboratory, UIC

August 09 - May 10

. Led a team of 5 people to conduct experiments of various chemical

engineering unit operations.

. Compiled reports and presentations of the conducted experiments.

. Explained experimental results to group conducting experiment after

us to make improvements in yielding better results.

Research Assistant, Catalysis Laboratory, UIC

January 09 - May 10

Project Title: Investigation into the Preparation of Manganese Promoted

Rhodium Catalyst by Strong Electrostatic Adsorption.

Advisors: Dr. Randall J. Meyer and Dr. John R. Regalbuto, UIC.

. Synthesized and characterized heterogeneous catalysts that have

potential to produce bio-fuels from non-food sources.

. Currently in the process of publishing a paper in a journal.

. Presented data at an Undergraduate Symposium Conference held at

Argonne National Laboratory on November 13, 2009.

Course Grader, Department of Mathematics, UIC

August 07 - May 08

. Graded weekly homework assignments of 80 students for introductory

calculus class.

. Organized and managed grades and reported to professor weekly.

Skills

Technical Equipment: Temperature Programmed Reduction (TPR), H2-

Chemisorption, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS), pH

meter, and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS).

Software: Aspen Plus, HYSYS, Aspen Process Economic Analyzer, MS Office

Suites, Visio, MatLab, Maple, AutoCAD, CHEMCAD, C++, and CAMSOL.

Language: Fluent in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.

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