Engineer Design

Saket Milind Rathkanthiwar

Detroit, Michigan-****1 *****.*************@*****.*** 313-***-****

https://in.linkedin.com/in/saketrathkanthiwar

Professional Summary:

Worked as a Project Engineer at SRS International and managed a biodiesel plant in Miami, Florida.

2 years of work experience as a design engineer and led a team of 3 engineers.

6 months of industrial experience as a CAE trainee engineer.

1-year work experience as a Powertrain project trainee (Internship) at ARAI, India

Experience with plastic injection molding projects using Moldflow software (Individual Project)

Knowledge of DFMEA, Six sigma, GD&T.

Hands on experience on LS-Dyna, Hypermesh, CATIA and Unigraphics.

Work Experience:

SRS International

Project Engineer (September-2017 to March-2018)

Solving the onsite engineering and designing issues by suggesting appropriate changes in the process and the drawings.

Assisted project manager in providing optimal engineering solution and assisted in cost reduction processes by controlling the cost involved in Material and Labor.

Finding, Managing and coordinating with vendors for onsite job requirement.

Reviewing all the engineering drawings to check necessary changes.

Provide onsite support to the engineering team working offshore.

Manage on site employees and tracking their activities.

Responsible for maintaining online documentation of all the engineering documents

Supporting the project manager in other project management activities like working closely with Electrical, piping teams to monitor the project and its progress.

GDL Engineering India Pvt. Ltd. (February- 2013 to July- 2015)

Mechanical Design Engineer

Worked as a liaison between different departments including Piping and Electrical.

Designed process and piping systems

Responsible for piping drawings and its GD&T for different projects

Designed Isometric drawings (3D drawings) of supporting structures using CAD software

Provide analytical solutions to improve engineering design and reduce cost.

Worked on database management by maintaining BOM

Assisted the project manager in root cause analysis using tools like Five Whys and Fault tree analysis.

Assisted in preparing project scope of work and estimating required documents.

Interacted with customer to understand their requirement and planned the project accordingly.

Provided engineering support during construction phase of various projects.

Designed and validated electrical sheets which included P&IDs and PFDs.

Led a team of 3 engineers and managed different projects simultaneously which included VN Oil JSC, Trafigura Terminals, CITGO Petroleum, Flint Hill Resources.

Analyzers CAE Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Trainee Engineer (September-2012 to Jan-2013)

Worked on ANSYS’s workbench module to analyze basic mechanical components as a part of training on ANSYS.

Conducted structural analysis of a chair using Optistruct as solver.

Conducted topology optimization of a steering knuckle using stress constraints to reduce the mass of the knuckle using stress constraints.

Conducted size optimization of a rail joint by using volume minimization as objective. The thickness of the optimized part was compared to the original thickness.

Conducted analysis of a double rail using different composite material to study the behavior of various composites and the effects of plies and its arrangement using LS-Dyna and Hypermesh

Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) (June 2011 – May 2012)

Project trainee Engineer (Powertrain Department)

Estimated exact amount of oil flow required for proper lubrication of a 3-cylinder CRDi diesel engine (Under-development).

Developed the entire oil gallery circuit in Flowmaster, a 1-D flow simulator software by using the results obtained from manual calculations to ensure that oil reached all the components in the engine.

Certifications:

CATIA V5R19

Unigraphics

Beginning of Project Management: Project Management Level one

Education:

Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, USA) Graduation: May 2017 Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.62

University of Pune (Pune, Maharashtra, India) Graduation: May 2012 Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering 59.86% (GPA Equivalent: 3.4)

Co- Curricular Projects:

Master of Science: (Wayne State University)

EcoCar3 (January- 2017 to May- 2017)

Analyzed the powertrain mounting bracket which is designed by the mechanical team by using Hypermesh.

Worked on packaging of battery in the trunk of Chevrolet Camaro.

Advanced Human Modeling lab (October-2015 to February- 2016)

Worked on maintaining the element quality of the human dummy model using Hypermesh.

Conducted various simulations on the dummy to validate its result with cadaveric data using LS-Dyna.

Individual Projects:

Conducted fill analysis on a plastic panel to study the effect of gate locations on the filling process using Moldflow.

Conducted packing analysis on a plastic model and studied the effect of varied sprue diameter on cooling time and shrinkage of the part using Moldflow

Design experience:

Designed the axial impactor and brake pedal in CATIA in Impact Biomechanics project

Designed and analyzed mounting bracket to supportb surge tank in the bonnet by using Unigraphics and Hypermesh in EcoCar3. Worked on packaging of battery in the trunk of Chevrolet Camaro.

Designed and modified the structure of the roof to reduce the deflection of roof for occupant safety in Crashworthiness

Designed the flip chip package in CATIA in Manufacturing Process Mechanics course

Modeled the oil gallery of the CRDI engine in CATIA to understand the flow of oil in the engine’s oil circuit.

Crash Experience:

Studied Injury to Human Foot and Ankle for Axial Impact Loading and Complex Loading by simulating the impact on LS-Dyna and meshing the components on Hypermesh.

Conducted frontal crash (Head-on and Off-center), Roof Crash and Side Crash in accordance with FMVSS standards of a vehicle by creating Finite Element Model using Hypermesh and used LS-Dyna to assess vehicle crashworthiness.

Fatigue analysis experience:

Performed FEA with Abaqus/standard or dynamic methods for optimal process design of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) simulation.

Predicted the fatigue life of solder balls in completely filled clean and non- clean to understand the effects of processing issues using Hypermesh.

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