Engineer Mechanical Engineering

N AUMAN SHEIKH

**** ******** ****, ******* *******, Texas 77845 • Phone: 979-***-**** • E-mail: ******.******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Employment as an engineer in a design and analysis environment using finite element analysis (FEA)

SKILL SUMMARY

Professional Engineer (PE) with 10+ years of experience in design and development using finite element analysis (LS-DYNA,

HyperWorks). Extensive experience in designing and conducting component and system level tests for validation of FE models.

Well-versed with computer programming (Visual Basic, Fortran, C++) and developing customized codes and user subroutines for

commercial software. Experienced with leading multiple parallel projects as Principal Investigator, writing research proposals and

technical reports, budgeting, and presenting results to peers and clients.

EXPERIENCE

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Associate Research Engineer May 2012 – present

Assistant Research Engineer Mar. 2010 – Apr. 2012

Associate Researcher Sep. 2006 – Feb. 2010

Assistant Researcher Feb. 2002 – Aug. 2006

Performed extensive design, analysis, and testing to develop roadside safety hardware such as crash cushions, energy

absorbing end-terminals, guardrails systems, security gates and fences, safety barriers, etc.

Modeling and Simulation

• Developed finite element models for various types of problems using HyperMesh, LS-PrePost, and HyperView

• Performed variety of finite element analyses using LS-DYNA, including full-scale vehicle impact and crashworthiness

analysis, and other linear, non-linear, elastic and plastic analyses

• Performed multi-rigid body vehicle dynamics analyses using Carsim and Adams

Crash Testing

• Designed and conducted various component and sub-component level tests for validation of FE models

• Oversaw in-house construction group for construction of prototypes built for full-scale vehicular impact crash testing

• Extensively used crash test data for validation of FE models

Project Management

• Routinely lead multiple parallel projects as Project Director through various project phases including proposal writing,

budgeting, design and analysis, crash testing, and reporting

• Successfully proposed to contract $600,000 in competitive project funding (in years 2012-2013)

• Frequently presented simulation and test results to peers and sponsors, and promoted projects and solutions developed in

peer-reviewed journals and related conferences

Texas A&M University Research Assistant Aug. 1999 – Dec. 2001

Researched use of meshless methods in computational mechanics

• Developed a meshless method formulation for Euler-Bernoulli beam using Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) method

• Used C++ to program the above mentioned formulation

• Used Fortran to develop various linear and nonlinear finite element codes

Foster Wheeler Corporation CAE Applications Engineer Apr. 1999 – Aug. 1999

Worked as Information Technology consultant, providing support for CAE applications

• Developed document management applications in C and LISP for in-house use

• Customized AutoCAD using LISP for efficient use according to the needs of the design group

• Customized and implemented document management software, ProjectWise

Bentley Systems, Inc. (previously Rebis, Inc.) CAE Product Developer Jun. 1998 – Dec. 1998

• Developed FORTRAN code to generate piping stress isometrics using data from AutoPIPE (a piping FEA software)

• Developed front end Graphic User Interface for the above mentioned application using Visual Basic

• Performed debugging and quality control check on several software modules

EDUCATION

MS in Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University, Texas, U.S.A. Dec. 2001

Specialization in computational mechanics using finite element method and meshless methods. Cumulative GPA: 3.25

BS in Mechanical Engineering Ghulam Ishaq Khan Inst. of Eng. Sciences & Tech., Pakistan May 1998

Gold medalist for best academic performance (class rank: 1). Cumulative GPA: 3.33. Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.76

PROFESSIONAL LICENSE

Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Texas, USA. Registration No. 105155 (2009 – Present)

HONORS & AWARDS

• Presented “Researcher Award” by Texas A&M Transportation Institute in recognition of persistent high quality work

exceeding job requirements and being a good company ambassador for external clients, 2013

• K.B. Woods Awards for outstanding paper in design and construction of transportation facilities, Transportation Research

Board (TRB), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2013

• K.B. Woods Awards for outstanding paper in design and construction of transportation facilities, Transportation Research

Board (TRB), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2007

• Best Paper Award in roadside safety design, Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academy of Sciences (NAS),

2007

• Awarded gold medal for best academic performance, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute

of Engineering Sciences and Technology, 1998

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