Engineering Engineer

Tapas Mandal

*** * ***** ****** ***#**, San Jose, CA 95112, Cell: 806-***-****, E-mail: ********@*****.***

Education:

May’13

Master of Science (Thesis) in Electrical Engineering

Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, TX CGPA:3.6/4

Dec’08

Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Technology, Technical Physics

Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia (SPbSPU), Saint Petersburg, Russia ; Blue Diploma(~84%)

Bachelor Thesis:- Investigation of surface waves in dielectric layer with screen in Integral Phased Array Antennas

Skills:

Computer and software: Cadence Spectre, ADS, Cadence Virtuoso, AWR MWO, LabVIEW, C, Maple, MATLAB, Mathcad, Mathematica,

MultiSim, PSpice, Origin, TINA, Cadence, Code Composer Studio, good statistical data analyzing ability.

Test Equipments: Programmable Load, Multimeter, Frequency Synthesizers, Venable frequency response Analyzer, Oscilloscope,ATE(PXI)

Languages known: Fluent in Bengali(native), Russian and English

Hands on training and experience: THz Spectroscopy-Menlo K15 System, Photolithography-ABM Inc,ICP Dry Etching-Oxford Plasmalab80

Plus,Wet Etching,Hall Voltage Measurement-MMR Tech,Dicing Machine-DAD 2H/6T,Sputtering-INFICON Deposition Controller IC/5 and

Thermionics,Spin Coating-Headway PWM32 Controller Spinner (Semiconductor processing and characterization)

Graduate Academic Experience:

Self-biased operational amplifier,Fall'12,Texas Tech University

Designed, simulated and made layout using Cadence AMI06 CMOS process. Checked DRC and LVS matching.

Did performance evaluation in worst corners by variation of design parameters.

Tools Used- Cadence Spectre, Cadence Virtuoso

DC-DC Buck Converter(Step Down),Fall'12,Texas Tech University

Did trade-off study, Simulated and selected components, designed compensation circuit, Programmed TI MSP430 microcontroller to generate

PWM signal according to feedback and assembled PCB

Wrote detailed test plan, performed load regulation, line regulation, load transient, line transient, efficiency, ripple volt age, phase and gain

measurement

Tools used:-PSpice, Matlab, Maple, Orcad, oscilloscopes, Venable gain and phase analyzer, programmable load, multimeters and power supplies

Low-Dropout Regulator(LDO),Fall'12,Texas Tech University

Designed, simulated, assembled the breadboard and tested its performance at given design specifications.

Performed Transient Analysis, Line & Load Regulation, Ripple Voltage tests and calculated efficiency.

Tools used:-Multisim, RIGOL DS2102 Oscilloscope, Keithley 2400 sourcemeter,, DC programmable load, Multimeter.

Simulation and Testing of TI TPS62200 EVM-211 and TI TPS40055 EVM-001 converters,Fall'12,Texas Tech University

Simulated circuit, wrote detailed test plan, performed bench test for line and load regulation, ripple voltage, effic iency, soft start, line and load

transients, did phase margin and gain margin tests

Tools used:- TI SwitcherPro, TINA-TI, Multisim, Venable 3120 frequency response analyzer, oscilloscope, power supplies

Low-Noise Microwave Amplifier(LNA),Spring'12,Texas Tech University

Designed, simulated, milled, soldered, assembled a Low Noise Amplifier @ 2.45 GHz.

Tested the values of S- Parameters, measured gain and OIP3 and compared with simulation results.

Tools used:- AWR Microwave Office, PXI 5630 Vector Network Analyzer(VNA).

Speech Signal Recovery,Fall'11,Texas Tech University

Built Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters for three different noisy signals, using ‘fdatool’ in MATLAB.

Analyzed frequency spectrum of signals to determine the cut off frequency for each.

Research Experience:

Terahertz Spectroscopy of VO2 grown on a-plane sapphire: Masters Thesis, Texas Tech University,Fall'12-Spring13

Determined different properties of VO2/a-plane from THz measurements and compared with VO2 on other planes

Designed experiment and calculated birefringence & THz amplitude variation due to substrate related birefringence

Made a program in MathCAD to calculate optical conductivity and refrac tive index at different temperatures.

Work Experience:

Research Associate, Nano Tech Center, Texas Tech University 7/1/2013-now

working to develop an algorithm in MatLab to calculate experimental data obtained from THz Spectroscopy

Teaching Assistant, Intro to ECE course, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University(TTU) Fall'12

Conducted demonstration class of 80 undergraduate students and helped them to solve problems of Matlab and Basic Electronic Circuits.

Graded classroom tests and homeworks.

Tutor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Physics, Texas Tech University(TTU) Spring'11

Helped to solve problems of Basic Algebra, Calculus, Geometry and physics courses of undergraduate students

Technical coordinator and engineer, Mediacell.bd Ltd Dhaka, Bangladesh March,2009-May,2011

Helped to coordination, communication, translation of technical documents from Russian to English.and installation and maintenance of floor

mounted deposit machines for payment of electricity, water and gas bill, loading mobile sim cards, depositing ban k cheques, notes

Awards and Honours:

Russian Government Scholarship for Bangladeshi Students (Dec/2003-Dec/2008)

Scholarship from Russia-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce, Moscow. (August/2004-June/2005)

Electrical Engineering Department Scholarship of Texas Tech University (Fall 2011-Spring 2013)

Fundamental of Engineering Certification by NCEES

Related Courseworks:

Analog ICs, Microwave Solid State Circuits,, DC- DC Design and testing, Engineering Analysis, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing,

Nanophotonics (Graduate) Optical and quantum devices, Solid State Physics-domain principles, Production control, Industrial Engineering and

Production scheduling, Materials Science, Microwave devices and antennas, Experimental Physics, Mathematics -Linear Algebra, Mathematical

Analysis, Probability theory and mathematical statistics, Electronics -circuit theory, devices, radio engineering circuits and signals, Theory of

computer systems, Numerical Methods, Telecommunicational Technologies, Radiophysics -Domain principles, Modern Problems, Introduction to

statistical radio engineering, Quantum Mechanics, Radio electronics -domain principles (Undergraduate)

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