Chemical Engineering Assistant

MAHESWARI CHANDRASEKARAN

Graduate Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville www.linkedin.com/in/maheswarichandrasekaran

1100W Corral Avenue #72, Kingsville, TX-78363

Phone: +1-361-***-**** Email: ******************@*****.*** OBJECTIVE:

Actively seeking internship/full time position in an esteemed organization to work in a challenging environment that provides enormous opportunity for learning and self-development, and to work with perseverance and commitment to achieve the company’s goal.

EDUCATION:

Texas A&M University-Kingsville, TX-78363 (Fall 2016-Present) Master of Science, Chemical Engineering - GPA: 3.87 / 4.0 Related Coursework: Separation Process, Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Process Simulation

Anna University, Chennai, India August 2012-May 2016) Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering - GPA: 3.8 / 4.0 Related Coursework: Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Chemical Process Calculations EXPERIENCE:

Graduate Assistant, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (Spring 2017-Present) Working on treatment of petroleum hydrocarbon in wastewater lagoons and using MATLAB to study the effect of biodegradation

Research Assistant, Texas A&M University-Kingsville I volunteered myself to work under a PhD student to do a field work in Circle Ranch, ElPaso, Texas, in order to study the amount of particulate matter present in the desert area

Research Intern, Greenvironment Innovation & Marketing India (P) Ltd., India (September 2015-August 2016) In this work a sewage treatment plant using MBBR technology is designed and the characteristics such as pH, BOD, COD, TSS of raw sewage and the treated water was studies. Also, the economics on the design was carried out and found to be effective for larger population.

Research Intern, Central Leather Research Institute, India (August 205-September 2015) The program dealt with the production of activated carbon from animal flesh by three different methods and using it for the treatment of tannery effluent.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Design Tools : ASPEN HYSYS, ASPEN PLUS

Packages : MS Office - MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power-point.

Other Tools : MATLAB, MAPLE

TRAINING:

Tuticorin Thermal Power Station, Tuticorin, India

Coromandel International Limited, Ranipet, India

KCC Paint Private Limited, Sriperumpudur, India

PRESENTATIONS:

Production of neem oil ethyl ester/ neem oil biodiesel from Azhadirachta indica by a two-step trans- esterification process using two different catalysts” - SCHEMCON 2015

A novel innovation by implementing nanofluids in microchannel heat exchangers for effective improvisation of heat transfer characteristics” - SHAR, Sriharikota.

Tannery effluent treatment using novel methods- a review - ICGTEPC-2014

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