M r. Nachiket Gohokar

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Actively looking for job in field of Automobile Engineer where I can utilize my aptitude, skill and knowledge.

Summa ry:

Over 6 years of experience as Mechanical Engineer/Automotive Design and Release Engineer.

Over 2 years of experience as Automotive Upper and Lower AVD Body Structure Engineer.

8 Months of experience as Interior Hard Trim Design Release Engineer.

Worked as Maintenance and Operation engineer for 10 months

Worked for 3 years on smart material (Master’s Thesis Project) to find out strength, stiffness and

self-healing efficiency of the material.

WORK EXPER IE NCE :

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY, Warren M I

Oct’12- Present

Advance CORE Engineer (Design and release engineer)

AVD Design release engineer for upper and lower Automotive Body structure.

Benchmarking competitive vehicle to optimized and build mass efficient body structure.

A nalyzing the CAE results, reviewing the design parts, to meet the set standards (USNCAP,

E URONCAP, ANCAP).

Worked with Manufacturing Engineering to incorporate manufacturing requirement in the

designed part/assembly.

Worked cross functionally with other department and compartment integration team to solve

packaging and interference related issue.

Design feasible sheet metal components for stamping operation.

Worked with Buyers and suppliers to understand the business case.

Consult Die engineer to check the formability of the designed part.

I nvolved in cost analysis for reducing the piece cost and tooling cost.

T rack and review the Bill of Material and VIZBOM to reduce the complexity.

Used Complexity Manger, GPDM, UG (NX), Team Center.

Work on E2, PRTS, EWO, ESOR, DFMEA and DFSS.

A nalyzing the simulation for ELPO coverage and Liquid t rapped, accordingly making changes to

designed parts.

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn M I

Jan ‘12 -Sep’12

Design and Release Engineer

Design and release engineer for In terior hard t r im parts of Vehicle.

Design feasible plastic component to injection molding.

Develop master section for hard t r im and other component to check the interference.

Design hard t r im surface considering sheet metal, packaging and other components.

Designing the attachment strategy for hard t r im component.

Responsible for handling bill of material for hard t r im parts.

Responsible for handling and solving customer issue related to interior hard t r im.

Research Experience: Graduate Research Assistant, Clarkson University

A ug’08-Aug’11

F racture Testing of Silica Discoid Bearing Resin and Hardener in Epoxy Mat r ix for Self-healing”.

Design and caste composite (Plastic) specimen as per ASME standard for DFMEA.

Design fixtures and brackets for holding/machining the specimen.

Ini tiate test plan, experimental setup, test execution, statistical analysis to study the mechanism and

behavior

Wrote program in SX and Teststar software for MTS 1331/4505 servo hydraulic testing machine for

performing cyclic and monotonic loading on specimens.

Modeled and analyzed self-healing composite specimen by using CAD, and analyze using Ansys.

Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) and Rockwell hardness testing machine was used for studying

t he behavior.

I ndorama Synthetic L td, Nagpur, India

Oct’07 - July’08

Mechanical Engineer (Full Time)

Responsible for all phases of projects from concept sketches to approve designs.

Design part and assembly drawing with bills of material as per design standards.

Looked after operation and maintenance related problem.

Successfully installed and commissioned hydrant, sprinkler and recovery pipeline.

Responsible for daily/monthly reports.

E DUCAT IO N:

M aster of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (GPA: 3.5/4.0)

A ug’08- Aug’11 Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at Nagpur University, India.

A ug’04-May’07 Diploma in Automobile Engineering at MSBTE, Pune, MS, India.

A ug’01-May’04

P ROJECTS:

M illing Machine: Master in science advanced CAD project 2008

Porto Cleaner: Drainage Cleaning Machine: Undergraduate major project 2007

Helmet wiper: Undergraduate mini project 2006

Bulb changing lever: Techkri ti I IT Project Presentation 2005

Testing bench for Pneumatic valve for heavy automotive vehicle: Diploma project 2004.

T EC H N ICAL SKI LLS:

Machine shop: Lathe, M illing, CNC, Welding, Brazing, Soldering, Hobbing machine, Hydraulic and

p neumatic circuits, Assembly of 4-cylinder engine.

Mechanical Engineering tools: Catia, PRO-E, Unigraphics (NX), AutoCAD, Solidworks, Ansys,

A utoinventor, Adobe-premier, 3D Max, Fluent.

Programming skills: Matlab, C/C++, Perl, labview and M icrosoft Office.

P ERSONAL SKI LLS:

Ability to read blue prints and engineering drawings.

Knowledge of geometric dimension and tolerance.

Strong interpersonal skills involving ability to work effectively cross-functionally and cross-

culturally.

Strong wri t ten and oral communication skills necessary for meetings and presentations

Ability to work well with others, exhibiting teamwork skills and do multiple task.

Working Experience with outside vendors.

EXTRA CURR ICU LAR ACT I V I T I ES:

Project Award for Bulb changing lever in I IT (Indian institute of technology) Kanpur, India.

Under Graduate project got approved from Nagpur Municipal Co-operation.

Member of regional level field hockey team.

Member of organizing committee for Haiti Relief Fund/Blood camp.

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