Engineering Engineer

Kush Shah

***** ********* **. *** # ***, Farmington Hills, MI-48335 **********@*****.*** 404-***-****

Qualification Summary

About three year of experience as a metallurgical engineer in materials science, metal joining for fabrication and research in the automotive joining for weight reduction and aerospace lubrication field for reduced friction and wear.

Knowledge of brazing, welding of similar and dissimilar metal joining.

Wide experience with quality and destructive as well as non-destructive characterization metals.

Knowledge of electron microscopy and failure analysis of materials.

Education

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA August 2015

B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering, Gujarat Technological University, India June 2012

Skills

Design:

Design of Experiments (DX’7), Solid Works.

Analysis :

Four Ball Wear Testing, High Vacuum Brazing Furnace, Heat Treatment cycles, Friction Stir Spot / Linear Welding, Nano Indentation.

Characterization:

Destructive / Non Destructive Evaluation, Optical / Electronic Microscopy, Image Analyzer, X-Ray Diffraction, Digital Optical Microscope (Keyence VH1000X)

Management:

Gantt-Project, MS-Project.

Software:

Office 2003-2013, Origin,,Quartz PCI, Google Sketch Up

Work Experience/ Research

Research Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington, TX [January 2013 to October 2015]

-Investigation of tribological behavior of ashless antiwear and new generation additives in the lithium base grease over the performance of widely used Zinc dialkyl dithiophosphates (ZDDP) antiwear additive to overcome sludge formation, produced by heavy elements present in phosphate chemistry.

-Blending of grease, Performing ASTM D 2266 standard test on the Four Ball Wear Testing equipment. Evaluation of wear scar produced during testing using Optical Stereo Microscopy and analysis of tribofilmed formed by blended chemistries using Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM), elemental mapping using Energy Dispersive Microscopy (EDS)

-Effect of Sulfur and Phosphorus additives in lithium base grease for Extreme Pressure (EP) and Anti Wear (AW) properties under spectrum loading.

-Use of Design of Experiments to optimize chemistry of grease for best performance.

R&D Automotive Material Intern, Hitachi America Ltd., Farmington Hills, MI [January 2014 to August 2014]

-Developed weld process conditions to join dissimilar alloys of aluminum and magnesium by friction stir spot and linear welding.

-Mechanical testing of welds, macro and micro analysis of joints and failure region, analysis and identification of inter-metallic compounds through SEM and EDAX, metallographic analysis of grains and weld structures.

-Development of suspension and shock road absorbers for OEMs. Determination of alteration route required for their development and lineup with the manufacturing line.

-Characterization and microstructure analysis of different grads of steel and its alloys for alloy development, quality control for automotive application.

R&D Brazing Intern, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, INDIA [July 2011to June 2012]

-Development of the fabrication technique using brazing process for the development of plasma facing component (PFCs)

-Responsibilities includes selection of materials and its properties, designing jigs and fixtures for the experimental approach, development of heat treatment and brazing cycles, HV Brazing, characterization of samples using different techniques includes optical and electron microscopy.

-Planning, scheduling, conducting and coordinating the technical and management aspects of the Projects with the ITER-India. Track Project Milestones to compete international teams for the similar research work.

Lecturer, Indus University, Gujarat, INDIA [July 2012 to December 2012]

-Appointed as a lecturer for the department of Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering and for the Department of Automobile Engineering. Main responsibilities were to engage the lecturers as well as laboratories for the subject Non-Destructive Testing, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering, Fundamental of Automobile Engineering.

-Also carry out all the test related to Foundry Technology and Non Destructive Testing for the various industries and consult them for their better production

Publications

Kush Shah, Pranesh Aswath,” Interaction of antiwear addivitives and friction reducing additives in grease”. Pro Quest, August 2015

Kush Shah, Sravya Josula, Pranesh Aswath, “Effect of ashless anti-wear additives on the performance of lubricating grease.” STLE 70th Annual Meeting and Exhibition- May 2015, Dallas, TX.

Kush Shah, Pranesh Aswath, “Effect of ashless anti-wear additives on the performance of lubricating grease over ZDDP.” 6th North Texas Inter-University Materials Science and Engineering Symposium-April-2015.

Wei Yuan, Kush Shah, Bita Ghaffari, Harsha Badarinarayan. “Friction stir welding of dissimilar lightweight metals with addition of adhesive”. 144thAnnual Meeting & Exhibition2015 TMS(March-2015)

Kush Shah, Vishal Singh, Dr.K.P.Singh. “Study of brazing parameters towards fabrication of test plasma facing components (PFCs) samples/coupons.” ITM Universe – CICI 2012 Conference, India.

Summer Projects

Shree Hans Alloys Pvt Ltd. Summer 2010

Winco Valves Pvt. Ltd. Kalol, India Summer 2009

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