Systems Engineer - Product Lifecycle, Mechanical Design, Reliability

Gurkamal Pal Singh Mechanical Engineer

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Department of Defense – NAVSEA, NAVAIR, and CSRA Norco, CA Systems Engineer – Mechanical Design Qualification and Reliability Assessment March 2016 – Present

Naval Aircraft/Ship Systems Design – Manufacturability, Failure/Cost Analysis, Weight Reduction, Trade Studies. Prototype Design Optimization – FEA, CFD, Thermal, Vibration Analysis in SolidWorks. Presented design flaws causing pump cavitation on LCS-Class ships at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. Arrowhead Products – An Aerospace Company Los Alamitos, CA Technical Writer – Mechanical Design and Reliability Testing August 2015 – March 2016

Developed assembly drawings for manufacturing use per ASME Y14.5-2009 using CATIA v5. Administered and documented thermal, cryogenic, vibration, structural, and fatigue tests on ducting mechanisms. Published ATPs, QTPs, and FAA documentation. Audited manufacturing for Quality Assurance documentation. Mechanical Engineering Design Laboratory – UCR Riverside, CA Student Lab Consultant – Undergraduate SolidWorks Design Lab October 2013 – June 2014

Guided first and second year engineering students with SolidWorks projects. Held design competitions in collaboration with other students in the College of Engineering. Projects and Hobbies

3D Printed Miniature UAV Builds FPV Drone Racing Autodesk Fusion 360 February 2017 - Present

Fabricated quadcopter frames with Autodesk Fusion 360 and a Prusa i3 3D Printer. Studied Camera and Battery Payloads for flight time. Experimented with maneuverability for FPV Racing. Lift and Drag Analysis NACA Airfoils MATLAB XFOIL SolidWorks CFD May 2015 – June 2015

Created a MATLAB function to find coordinates for 4-Digit NACA airfoil cross-sections. Imported coordinates into XFOIL to compare lift and drag characteristics (CL & CD vs α). Drafted airfoils in SolidWorks and calculated CL & CD using Equation Goals with CFD. Eddy Current Brake Dynamometer LabVIEW DAQ Arduino Transducers December 2014 – June 2015

Prototyped mechanisms with SolidWorks assemblies and determined transducer requirements with MATLAB. Fabricated an aluminum rotor. Set up an optical tachometer. Mounted an electromagnet stator to a load cell. Plotted torque, angular velocity, power, and efficiency in real time using a GUI in LabVIEW. Software and Analytical Skills

SolidWorks FEA CFD Thermal Vibration DimXpert CATIA Autodesk Fusion 360 GD&T (ASME Y14.5) MATLAB XFOIL LabVIEW PLM 3D Printing MS Office Trade Studies Reliability Block Diagram Analysis Security Clearance

Active DoD Secret Clearance 2016-2026 United States Department of Defense Education

BS Mechanical Engineering University of California, Riverside

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