Vijeta Ramachandran

acrne3@r.postjobfree.com 412-***-**** Houston, TX

Experience

Schlumberger Tech Corp (Rosharon, TX)

Mechanical Engineer

February 2013 - Present

Full time Mechanical Engineer at the Reservoir Measurement & Control group in Completions with the ODIN flow control valve and Mini-indexer project

Product design: Engineering design for the ODIN flow control valve, a downhole well completion installation. It is a hydraulically operated tool assembly with 8 chokes positions, which controls the flow of oil from the reservoir while producing and controls the flow of water while injecting. The mini-indexer is an alternative hydraulic pulse module to actuate the ODIN valve. Design work involves material selection and drawing checking for manufacturability, GD&T and tolerance stacks. Supplier management in terms of manufacturing methods, quality and non-conformances along with supply chain co-ordination

Testing: Conducted accelerated environmental tests to validate product requirements and test against potential failure modes for the ODIN system at a part, sub-assembly and complete tool assembly level. Performed accelerated lifecycle tests, pressure and temperature environmental tests, shock, vibration and drop tests, root cause analysis for failures and failure mode effects and analysis for the downhole system

Schlumberger Tech Corp (Rosharon, TX)

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Summer 2012

Testing: Conducted characterization tests for a solenoid operated valve, to validate replacement of a lower capacity valve in an electro-hydraulic assembly

Material Review: Reviewed materials to ensure chemical compatibility with control line fluid in high pressure and high temperature environment

Packaging: Suggested modifications to component enclosure to incorporate the valve in the existing assembly module Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) Teaching Assistant

Fall 2012

Teaching Assistant for 24-688 Introduction to CAD/CAE tools

Graded weekly homework, conducted weekly computer cluster sessions and quizzes and gave demonstrations in class Education

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, December 2012 University of Mumbai (Sardar Patel College of Engineering) (Mumbai, India) Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, May 2011 Trainings

Continuous Improvement- A Beginner’s 24 modules

Project Management for ADVANCE

Introduction to Creo Parametric 2.0

Mathcad 15.0 essentials

Introduction to ANSYS DesignModeler

Introduction to ANSYS Mechanical

Vijeta Ramachandran

acrne3@r.postjobfree.com 412-***-**** Houston, TX Projects

Advance Project- Mechanical Métier level 3 (August 2014- Present)

Working on using Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) to bond tungsten carbide and Inconel 718 to mitigate a problem of erosion while flowing

Managing design, testing, analysis, supplier co-ordination, schedule and budgets Design Decisions Lab, Optimal Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (Fall 2011-Sring 2012)

Worked towards optimizing efficiency as part of Graduate Research in Control Theory of the Vehicle Propulsion Controller in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Worked on Argonne Laboratory Software: PSAT and Autonomie, along with MATLAB and Simulink to study existent controller strategy and improve the model and control algorithm Ship Deck Stabilizer, Practical Automation and Control (Spring 2012)

Developed a control system, as part of a theoretical project, to stabilize a ship deck against roll motion with set parameters and available resources

Modeled the problem, designed a control system, selected commercial components and submitted a proposal as a consultant Adjustable Energy Harvesting Ankle Brace, Design of Bio-mechatronic Systems for Humans (Fall 2011)

Modeled and designed an ankle brace that can be adjusted to the user’s needs as one progresses through ankle injury rehabilitation, making the muscles do more work as the healing improves

Made simulations in MATLAB based on free-body diagrams and gait equations and proposed a CAD model representing the design concept

Bazingaman, Engineering Computation (Fall 2011)

Created different components of a game, as part of a group project, based on the original Bomberman using OpenGL and C++ Modeling and Analysis of a Ship Motion Simulator (2010-2011, Final Year of Under-graduation)

Created a CATIA model of a motion platform that gives rolling and pitching motions.

Compared results obtained from the DMU-Kinematics module of CATIA and MATLAB code

Defined further scope of the project: life-size physical simulator for testing equipment onboard oceanic vessels Activities & Honors

Schlumberger Reward of Excellence for Commitment to Customers, 2013

JRD Tata Scholarship for Academic Excellence: 2nd in class, 2009–2010 and 3rd in class, 2010-2011

Member of the college ABU ROBOCON (The Asia-Pacific Robot Contest) team 2008–2009

Organized ROBOLYMPICS (Robotics event) in college technical festival 2007–2008

Member of the Women’s Throw-ball Team (captain) & Basketball Team (vice-captain) 2008– 2011 Skills

Software and Programming

Pro-Engineer, CATIA, AutoCAD, Autodesk-Inventor, MATLAB and Simulink, ANSYS, Fluent, MS Office, PSAT, Autonomie, Visual Studio for C++ and OpenGL, TinyCAD

Spoken Languages

Fluent in English, Conversant in German

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