NEEHARIKA MUTHIREVULA

**** ********** **** ****. *** Blacksburg Virginia 24060

540-***-**** actr0l@r.postjobfree.com; actr0l@r.postjobfree.com;

EDUCATION

oJawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India-500085

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, 2012; Cumulative GPR: 80.25/100

oCurrently : Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Masters in Science with Aerospace Specialization, 2014-2016

Current GPA: 3.58/4 Expected Completion Date: May 2016

oCoursework: Vehicular Structures; Elastic Stability; Structural Dynamics; Intro to FEM; Structural Optimization; Applied Numerical Methods.

oGraduate Research Assistant: (Advisor: Dr. Rakesh K Kapania): Equivalent beam model of the maeWing2 design for the preliminary analysis. Use Matlab as the programming language, this will reduce the computational cost during the initial design phase.

IMMIGRATION STATUS

oHave F1 Student visa status, can work on OPT for 12 months.

oWill need sponsorship for H1B work permit visa.

INTERNSHIP

Gee Telecom Products Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India

Intern, April 2011 – June 2011

oDesign and Analysis of Substation towers: 2D design of the towers with respect to the client’s requirements and also analysis for the optimization of the tower in regard of material, cost and effectiveness.

A.S.L (Advanced Systems Laboratory), DRDO (Defense Research & Development Organization) India

Intern, December 2011 – April 2012

oTHERMAL ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF DIFFUSOR SYSTEM – A CFD APPROACH: To examine the theoretical and experimental performance of diffuser system, integral part of the Ejector system (Solid Propulsion system), a section in which deceleration (expansion) of the flow and an increase in pressure take place.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bell Helicopters Textron Inc. (Textron India Private Limited), Bangalore, India

Engineer II (Fatigue and Fracture Analysis Group), July 2012 – July 2014

o2D / 3D Finite Element Modeling and Stress Analysis of airframe components using ANSYS. Solving problems consisting contact, material and large deformation non linearity.

oDeveloped ANSYS automation scripts to analyze parametric model of a single shear supported joints.

oIdentified the configurations of the single shear supported joints with the smallest secondary bending. And developed new pin bending stress concentration curves for the single shear supported joints.

oDeveloped knowledge of analysis and physics of Single Shear supported joints.

oDefining the appropriate fatigue design requirements, including providing fatigue allowable and flaw sizes/allowable to the structural analysis groups.

oWorked on the “429 Wheel Landing Gear certification” project which should be approved by FAA, by this project I could get inputs on the calculation of the fatigue life and also different analysis that are needed to be carried out in the process of certification.

oHave worked on structural stress analysis of composite landing gear components of the landing gear for the FAA certification of 429.

oHave good amount of exposure in writing the FAA certification documents. Documentation of part analysis.

oDeveloped surface crack fracture models in ANSYS to get the SIF factors for a particular joint configuration.

oDevelopment of and use of group specific analytical tools, report writing, design reviews and test planning.

oResponsible for working within established schedules and budgets as defined by the team leader, for maintaining communication with supervisory staff, and for identifying issues that prevent expected progress of a project.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech (Structural Analysis Group), Aug 2014 - Present

oPerformance of Adaptive Aero elastic Wing (NASA Project, 2014 - 2018): Worked in the structural part of the project. Have helped in creating the structural equivalent beam model for the preliminary design of the maeWing2. This will be later used by the other collaborators in the control law design and CFD analysis.

oMS thesis: Will be automating the program for creating equivalent beam model using Matlab for UAV’S, so we don’t have to use any commercial code. This will tremendously reduce the computational cost and effort.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

oWorked with diverse groups of Bell Helicopter Inc. at the Canadian base, Mirabel for three months. Had a chance to experience working with diverse people in my group.

oCurrently studying at Virginia tech, have a chance of mixing with diverse people in my graduate class and research group.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

oProficiency in FEA analysis packages ANSYS, HYPERMESH, NASTRAN, and PATRAN.

oAutomation scripts in APDL language for ANSYS.

oBasic skill in CAD package Catia

oBasic skill in Matlab and Mathematica

oBasic knowledge in Microsoft office.

oBasic skill set in C – programming language.

oStrong skill set in structural analysis of various mechanical, structural, airframe components.

AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES:

oActively worked in team as a volunteer in Connaissance, a national level technical symposium conducted by JNTUH Mechanical Department.

oOrganized Blood Donation Camp and Health camp under Yuva spandana welfare association.

oOrganized SPARKS -09, a university level sports event, conducted by Mechanical Department.

oWon in throw ball competition in JNTUCEH intramural tournaments

oParticipated in a cricket tournament conducted in JNTU

oWon Spot Achiever award for the work done on “429 Wheel Landing Gear Certification” at Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

oEditor for the TWIN (Textron Women India Network) newsletter and also responsible for setting up the activities for the women group at Textron India Private Limited.

oWon in Badminton tournament conducted for the employees of Bell Helicopter India.

oParticipated in the SCITECH 2015 conference.

oWas part of the Girls Water polo team in the Fall 2014.

oAm a Diversity scholar for the Virginia Tech for the year 2015-2016, where I promote diversity among the graduate students by improving the relations between the international and local student group.

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