DARSHAN KHUNT

PERSONAL INFO

Address

Gainesville, FL

Phone

+1-352-***-****

E-mail

ac58nh@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/in/

dkhunt

Languages

Gujarati (native)

Hindi (fluent)

Spanish (intermediate)

SKILLS

EDUCATION

MS Chemical Engineering University of Florida (UF) Minor: Industrial and Systems Engineering

GPA: 3.58

Courses: Advanced Chemical and Biological Lab., Continuum Basis, Chemical Engineering Kinetics, Management of Unit Operations. Achievement: Outstanding Academic Achievement Scholarship. May 2018

B.Tech Chemical Engineering Nirma University (NU) Courses: Process Integration, Process Equipment Design, Chemical Engineering Economics and Plant Design, Solid Waste Management, Process Dynamics and Control, Modeling & Simulation, Food Science, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass & Energy Balances.

Jun 2016

PROJECT WORK

Graduate Student Integrated Process and Product Design (IPPD)

• Analyzed customer needs, translated them into product specifications, selected the best concept, performed make-buy analysis using engineering economy and operations research, designed the system manufacturing facility with the help of other team members.

Skills: New Product Introduction (NPI), Programming, Process Improvement, Project Management, Customers Requirement, Systems, and Data Visualization. Jan 2018

-May

2018

Graduate Student Assistant Nanoscale Research Facility(NRF) UF

• Developed thousands of PN/MOS diodes on a silicon wafer using thermal oxidation, photolithography, dry, and wet chemical etching resulting in 82% diode working capability measured with I-V characteristic analysis. Skills: Chemical and Physical Vapor Deposition (CVD and PVD), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Design of Experiments (DOE), Environmental Safety, SEM, Quality Data Analysis. Aug 2016

-May

2017

Chemical Engineer Intern Nirma Limited

• Communicated with different departments to achieve an optimized design of boiler for sulfur oxidation to obtain 6.7% cost reduction.

• Controlled the sulfuric acid plant, alpha-olefins sulfonation plant, and toilet- soap plant to achieve a continuous process operation.

• Overviewed Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) and Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) to study the flow of materials inside the plant. Skills: Process Engineering, Lean and Six Sigma, Process Controls and Design, Operations Research, Revamping, and Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). May 2015

-Jul 2015

EXPERIENCE

Case Study: Profit Optimization of Chemical Company UF

• Optimized profits earned per day using linear programming models.

• Decreased time required to operate a machinery for the same production. Aug 2017

-Dec 2017

Synthesis of Green Iron Nanoparticles NU

• Enhanced the magnetic properties of iron nanoparticles through adsorptive coatings and high yield strength.

• Obtained the chromatographic analysis to determine any contamination while using Matlab graphical analysis.

Jan 2015

-May

2016

Microsoft Office®

SolidWorks®

Pro/ENGINEER

LABView®

Minitab®

LINDO®

LINGO®

Aspen HYSYS®

Aspen PRO II®

HTRI

AutoCAD®

MATLAB®

Python

Java NetBeans®

MySQL

C & C++

LaTeX

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