Mechanical Engineer Project

SRINIVAS CHERUKUVADA

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● 126 5, E.University D rive, APT 2 037, T empe, AZ 85281

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SUMMARY

Highly organized mechanical engineer with excellent interpersonal, organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects

efficiently. Extremely passionate about taking on challenges out of one’s comfort zone with a hands on approach to accomplishing goals.

Six months of research experience working in the fields of heat transfer analysis, product design, computational fluid dynamics, reliability

and risk analysis, concentrated solar energy.

EDUCATION

MS, Mechanical Engineering Expected (May 2015)

Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ GPA 3.26/4

Graduate Coursework: Computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, solar commercialization, modeling and control of

robots, probabilistic methods for engineering design and analysis, nano-scale heat transfer, finite elements in engineering (current), linear

algebra, partial differential equations in engineering

BS, Mechanical Engineering May 2013

Andhra University-India CGPA 8.3/10

SKILLS

Modelling and Simulation : SolidWorks 2014, AutoCAD Mechanical, ProE Wildfire 4.0, ANSYS Fluent, ABAQUS

Other Software : Engineering Equation Solver, MATLAB, MS Excel, MS Word

WORK EXPERIENCE

(Sept’2014-Present)

Research Aide, ASU

Working as a part of team on an ongoing SRP (Salt River Project) funded research project to build an on demand water

heating system that utilizes concentrated solar energy, thermal energy storage system.

Modules in the project include design of heat exchanger system, flow loop simulation, designing a storage tank for phase

change materials, simulation of heat transfer fluid flow in the concentrated heat receiver pipe.

(Aug’2014 –Sept’2014)

Equipment room supervisor, Sun Devil Fitness Complex, ASU

Maintaining the equipment room inventory in the desktop, supervising the check in and checkout of sports equipment, cash

handling, and overall supervision of the equipment room.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Reliability and risk assessment of ethylene glycol as a heat transfer fluid for supporting thermal energy storage

(Nov’2014 – Dec’2014)

Softwares used: MATLAB, JMP, ANSYS FLUENT

Regression equation between input and output random variables was generated based on ANSYS simulation and JMP

software and sensitivity analysis was performed using Kolmogorov-Smirnof test.

Probability of failure was found to be 0.006 4 out of one million iterations using Monte Carlo simulation.

Trajectory planning of 7-degrees of freedom KUKA robot

(Oct’2014 – Dec’2014)

Software used: MATLAB

Achieved the task of grasping a cylinder placed at a distance on a table with the use of forward and inverse kinematics,

trajectory planning of 7-degrees of freedom KUKA robot within 30 seconds.

Thermal efficiency analysis of parabolic trough collectors with nano particles in heat transfer f luid

(Feb’2014 – May’2014)

Softwares used: MATLAB, ANSYS FLUENT, SolidWorks 2013

Thermal efficiency analysis of water and ethanol through a heat receiver pipe was carried out with and without nano particles .

Achieved an increase in thermal efficiency of 2.32% by adding aluminum nanorods and an increase of 0.54% by adding gold

nano particles respectively in water.

Analysis of a flow in two dimensional lid driven cavity

(Nov’2013 Dec’2013)

S oftware u sed: A NSYS F LUENT

Fluid flow in 2-D square cavity was analyzed with varying reynold's number and a lid at the top of the cavity being driven

with a constant velocity.

ANSYS Fluent and MATLAB programming were used to find out the numerical solutions for the flow at different reynold's

numbers.

(Dec’2012 April’2013)

Design and fabrication of manually operated coconut harvesting robot

Software used: SolidWorks 2010

Successfully designed and fabricated a robot that aids in drastically reducing manual efforts to pick coconuts from its branches.

Robot built by using recyclable materials like plastic reducing the carbon footprint.

Case study of hydraulic systems in continuous casting shop at a steel manufacturing plant (May 2012-June 2012)

Ascertained the technical know-how of hydraulic systems used in a continuous casting shop.

Studied the different stages involved in the continuous casting of steel.

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