Manufacturing Engineer Assistant
Resume:
Kaushal Jenti Sumaria
Email: **********@*****.*** Phone: 919-***-**** Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/kaushalsumaria
WORK EXPERIENCE
Interdisciplinary Interface Engineering Lab: Research Assistant Amherst, MA May 2018 – Present
Designing and manufacturing a flexible and stretchable microfluidic device to develop soft sensors for medical diagnostic application
Designing a platform technology to reduce the number of input and output ports in a liquid metal, microfluidics based electronic chip
Calculated and designed the parameters such as channel depth, width, flow parameters and capillary pressure inside the microfluidic chip
Evaluated the literature on the characterization of the liquid metal Gallium based alloys, and PDMS elastomer to determine accurate material properties of contact angle and surface tension
Materials Processing Lab: Graduate Research Assistant Amherst, MA Mar 2015 – Sept 2017
Performed CFD Simulation of multi-phase core-shell molten metal drop oscillation using Ansys Fluent. Model accuracy: 93% w.r.t experiments
Discretized the simulation domain into 2D model by applying axisymmetric boundary conditions to reduce computation time
Implemented Lagrangian flow field along with Volume of Fluid method to discretize immiscible phases in the simulation
Implemented PISO scheme for pressure-velocity coupling and PRESTO! and QUICK schemes for pressure and momentum transport respectively
Developed a post-processing MATLAB code to perform image processing, signal processing and the Fast Fourier transform of the oscillation video file to determine oscillation frequency of thee droplet
Unique Mixers Pvt. Ltd.: Manufacturing Engineer 05/2014-05/2017 Mumbai, India Dec 2013 – July 2014
Designed and commissioned vessel cover to eliminate warping due to welding and achieve flush vacuum sealing with the vessel cover
Designed the fabrication, machining and assembly processes for 4 product lines while leading a team of 25 technicians - Cycle time reduction by 8%
Led Maintenance FMEA and RCA and updated the severity, detection, and occurrence metrics according to the current plant layout
Collaborated with the purchase team for inventory management and supplier selection for custom parts reducing lead time by 15 days
Provided strategic feedback to the design department by collaborating in DFM and DFA to optimize the manufacturing time
Participated in the process validations (IQ OQ PQ) during the plant commissioning and equipment setup at the client locations
Performed Correlation Studies, Gauge RnR for all Vernier calipers, screw gauge and handheld pump gauges
Collaboratively reviewed Control Plans, GD&T, Mfg. Drawings, PQP and made necessary changes in conjunction with the Design team
Achieved an aggregate saving of 50000$ annually using 5s for inventory management and 8D for maintenance breakdown checklists
Reduced scrap by 5% by implementing and verifying CAPA coordinating with the Quality team. Annual Savings: ~$100,000K
Metrology experience: CMM, Mechanical Calipers, Vacuum gauge, Pressure gauge, Runoff gauges, Instron
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts Amherst GPA: 3.67 Amherst, MA 2014 - 2017
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Certification: Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Relevant Coursework: Design Optimization, Finite Element Analysis, Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics, Production Planning and Control
University of Mumbai Grade: First Class Mumbai, India 2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
RELEVANT PROJECTS
CFD Analysis of Hemodynamics in the blood vessel Amherst, MA Feb 2018 – April 2018
Performed 2D and 3D CFD simulations of hemodynamics in blood vessel with bifurcations and aneurysm using Ansys Fluent
Studied and Implemented the power law and Carreau model to model the shear-thinning property of blood, a non-Newtonian fluid
Performed a 2D CFD simulation of a portal vein to identified low velocity blood flow regions and high wall shear stress regions
Performed a 3D CFD simulation of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and studied the wall shear stress and damage to the endothelium
CFD Analysis of Hemodynamics in the blood vessel Amherst, MA Feb 2018 – April 2018
Performed 3D FEA simulation on a balloon expanding stent using Ansys Static Structural Analysis to study the stresses developed in the stent
Modelled the stent deployment using two load steps of balloon expansion and contraction corresponding to stent expansion and deployment respectively
Studied the recoil percentage, Von-Mises stress and total deformation developed in the stent according to the FDA guidelines for the stent validation
Study of Fundamental System Characteristics Amherst, MA April 2018
Simulated a three -station manufacturing system to study the cycle time using production planning software simio
Modelled the station utilization, processing time, input rate, station utilization, MTTF, and MTTR parameters in the software
Validated the simulation results by comparing with the theoretical values of the base case for the cycle time and Work in Progress(WIP)
Simulated the cases of varying input rate, station capacity and buffer quantity to observe effect and trends on the cycle time
Robotics Amherst, MA April 2015 – May 2015
Designed a dual actuator based two-wheel self-balancing robot in Solidworks and manufactured it using 3D printing and machining
Developed a ‘c’ code using inverted pendulum algorithm for the ds-PIC33 microcontroller to control the actuation for the robot
Developed a ‘c’ code using the line follower algorithm for the ATMEGA2560 microcontroller to perform autonomous pick and place operations
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software Skills: Ansys Fluent, Ansys Workbench, Solidworks, Autodesk inventor, AutoCAD, Minitab
Programming languages: MATLAB, C, Python
PUBLICATIONS
Sumaria, K; Numerical Simulation of Multi-Phase Core-Shell Molten Metal Drop Oscillations (2017); Masters Theses. 586.
Sumaria, K.; Hyers, R. W.; Lee J.; “Oscillation of Zirconium Droplet – Experiment and Simulation”; Proceedings of the Materials Processing Fundamentals Symposium at TMS Annual Meeting, February 2017
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