Engineer Mechanical
Resume:
KOUSTUBH J RAO
**** ******** **, 352-***-****
Herndon, VA 20170. ********.****@*****.***
ENGINEERING PROFILE
Motivated and detail-driven mechanical engineer with a Masters Degree, plus one year work experience
and a proven track record of successful completion of project goals . Demonstrate excellent academic
achievements and in-depth research capabilities resulting in publications and patents. Team player with
good interpersonal skills and organizational abilities. Technically skilled in the following:
ProE Wildfire 3.0, 4.0 SolidWorks 2008 Solid Edge V14
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ANSYS Academic Release 11.0 MSC Adams 2008 MATLAB 7.0
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C/ C++, LISP Windows and Linux OS MS Office
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EDUCATION
MS in Mechanical Engineering – University of Florida Gainesville, August 2009 - GPA: 4.0/4.0
BTECH in Mechanical Engineering – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, May 2006 -
GPA: 3.3/4.0
Secured above 99.9th percentile in CET and IIT–JEE 2002 (national level entrance
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examinations)
Received the Engineering Achievement Award from UF given to international students for
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academic excellence
WORK EXPERIENCE
FANUC Robotics America, Rochester Hills, MI May 08 - Aug 08
Robotics Engineer Intern
Developed high speed picking and packing workcells for M430iA/2F and palletizing workcell for
R2000iB robots
o Implemented infeed and outfeed conveyer tracking using PickTool and the vision processes
using iRVision
Developed customized food grippers (mechanical and vacuum) to obtain better throughputs
o Developed new designs and improved designs of existing grippers (initial modeling done
using SolidWorks)
Demonstrated the developed workcells to potential customers which directly resulted in multiple
orders for the newly unveiled M430iA/2F robot
DASSAULT Systems (Delmia), Bangalore, INDIA Oct 06 - Jul 07
Software Engineer
Developed and maintained the DELMIA V5 Software based on industry requirements
o Worked on releasing a new version of the software with increased features and imp roved
functionalities
RESEARCH
Aug 07 – Aug 09
Space Automation & Manufacturing Mechanisms Lab, UF
Research Assistant
Designing active fixturing devices to be incorporated into mesoscale machine tool systems
o Developed non-workpiece adhering fixture elements with adjustable stiffness characteristics
using compliant mechanisms
o The research work resulted in a thesis, a publication and a patent application
Designing, prototyping and manufacturing titanium middle ear prosthesis for replacing damaged
ossicles
o Different embodiments of the prosthesis were modeled using ProE (patent obtained for the
designs) and stress analysis done using ANSYS
o Developed rapid prototypes and conducted experiments for improving the designs
Developing innovative deployable mechanisms for small satellites to enhance performance
capabilities
o Developed and analyzed designs for s ingle actuation deployable mechanisms to increase
effective surface area for solar cells
o Submitted a proposal based on initial work and obtained a $450,000 grant for further
research
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Deakin University, Australia Jul 06 - Oct 06
Research Intern
Designed a cheap, light weight 5 DOF Robotic arm with high payload capacity and accuracy
o Initial design and modeling done using SolidWor ks with force analysis, torque analysis and
Inverse kinematics done using IGRIP software
Laboratorio di Automazione Industriale, University of Cassino, Italy May 05 - Jul 05
Summer Intern
Developed codes to achieve kinematic control of a platoon of autonomous “Khepera II” robots
o Average position and variance of the robots were used to control the location and formation
of the platoon
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
“Active Fixturing for Mesoscale Manufacturing systems: Fixel design alternatives”,
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International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), USA, 2008.
“Preliminary Experiments of Formation Control using the Null Space based Behavioral
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Control”, 8th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Symposium on Robot
Control, Italy, 2006.
“Methods and Apparatus for Middle Ear Prosthesis”, US Provisional Patent (Docket No.
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UF – 728P).
“Active Fixturing for Micro/Mesoscale Machine Tool Systems”, US Provisional Patent
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(Docket No. UF – 0076.6017).
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