Electrical Engineering

**** *** *, ******* *****, AKSHAY VAISHNAV PALLE +1-906-***-****

Houghton, MI-49931, USA. https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaypalle acucfv@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Graduate Research student seeking a fulltime opportunity in the field of Electrical Engineering starting May 2016 with an objective to utilize gained skills and research experience for the same. Looking forward to join a challenging environment, utilizing my ability to work and manage multiple projects simultaneously ultimately, adding value to the company.

EDUCATION

Master of Science (MS) in Electrical and Computer Engineering - GPA: 3.95/4 Expected: May 2016

Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI

Currently Research Student in the field of Electro-physics working on Embedded Control Systems and Electro-Mechanics.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering - CGPA: 8.2/10 Aug 2010 - June 2014 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

Field Engineer Intern – National Optic Fiber Network (NOFN). Fall - 2013

Railtel Corporation of India Ltd- (Ministry of Railways) Hyderabad, India

Gained Field Experience working on this NOFN project to provide broadband connectivity to Gram Panchayats (Villages).

Worked on GPON where point to multi point scheme is being used enabling single optical fibre to serve multiple premises with the help of Passive optical Splicers.

Studied the protocol SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) where multiple digital bits were transferred synchronously over optical fibres using Lasers and LED.

Research Intern (Dept. of Science and technology). Fall - 2012

Clear Communication System Ltd. (formerly Opti-wave Photonics Ltd) Hyderabad, India

Designed and Tested Optical Communication related products.

Gained Hands on experience with working on Optical Amplifiers, and Attenuators, RF signal Transmitter.

Effectively communicated with many research Scientist, domestically and internationally.

Teaching Assistant at Michigan Technological University Summer 15 - Current

Teaching Undergraduate Lab courses and help students to learn to work in a team, think logically and to solve the problems.

Teaching Assistant for the graduate courses Electronic Materials, Solid State Devices, and Physical Electronics.

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Title: Develop a control system for Configurable Hybrid Electric Vehicle using Model-Based Embedded System. Spring - 2016

Designed and Validated a MotoTron Electronic Control Module for a configurable Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

Developed and Implemented Control Logics for different sub modules such as Control and Actuator modules using Model based control Strategy MotoHawk Tool.

Tuned and Calibrated the ECM using MotoTune real time Calibration Tool and used this data to test our HEV.

Implemented Control features such as hysteresis loop, Regen Braking, Battery protection to improve the Control System and to increase fuel and Output Efficiency.

Title: Design a Closed Loop Remote Electronic Throttle Control (ETC) using PID Control via CAN. Spring - 2016

Developed a Remote Control System for the Electronic Throttle Body (BOSCH DV-E5) using CAN Communication between two ECU’s. CANKing software was used to monitor the communication between the CAN devices.

Designed and Tuned PID Controller to minimize the Steady State Errors using MotoHawk in one of the ECU and used it to control the actuation of Throttle Body from the second ECU.

Implemented and Performed a Linear Interface Model to Relate PPS and TPS signals with Throttle actuation and Integration Algorithms to improve the Performance of the Control Systems with various controller Design.

Title: Designing of Fuel Injection Control for a single Cylinder 4 Stroke Diesel Engine Spring - 2016

Developed an Injection Control Model to actuate the Fuel Injector based on the engine data using MotoHawk Software.

Designed a Temperature Detecting model for a G232C NTC Thermistor.

Validated and Calibrated the Fuel Injection Control Using MotoTron Rapid Prototyping System using ECU 565-128.

Built a Temperature Compensation and Protection model to have a better Fuel Inject Control.

Title: Development of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrain Controller. Fall - 2016

Developed a Powertrain Controller for series - parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle using Stateflow software in Matlab.

Designed the Control Logic for the 4 major Transition states used in the powertrain controller.

Validated the output signals based on the designed test signals.

Modified the controller logic to improve the efficiency and performance of the controller.

Title: Optimal Control of the Altitude of a Surveillance Drone. Fall - 2015

Designed a System for Controlling the Altitude of the unmanned Surveillance Drone in Simulink and Matlab.

Achieved to Design a Control System to minimize the cost of the system.

Evaluated the performance of the time varying control system using Linear Quadratic Regulator.

Title: Modelling of KALMAN Filter for State estimations of DC Motor. Fall - 2015

Designed a Kalman Filter using the methodology of Linear Quadratic for DC motor using the Simulink software.

Estimated the States of DC Motor, the Shaft Angle and Angular Velocity from the given noisy data using the above Filter.

Title: Development of Temperature Control system for Industrial Plant Furnace based on SCADA module. Summer - 2015

Supervisory Controlling and Data Acquisition system is very important and regularly used in industrial plant control room to monitor and control the process that are distributed among various sites.

Used AT8051 microcontroller to develop this module along with temperature sensors.

RS232 was used as the Serial Communication Interface to standardize the communication with the microcontroller.

The Software for C programming was KIEL software and the design and simulation was done on Express PCB and SCH tools.

Title: Unconventional Antenna Probes for Ultra-High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NSF Funded) Spring 2015 - 16

Designed and simulated a miniaturized Antenna using (CST) to increase Image resolution by a factor of 10 and to replace RF coils in 14T MRI systems.

Achieved to make near magnetic fields more uniform at a specify frequency of 600MHz.

Identified and analysed the method to make the field Uniform using dielectric plugs.

Title: Construction and Optimization of a single wafer solar cell array in the microfabrication lab. Spring - 2015

Used a silicon wafer of 5 µm thick and an oxide layer of 1µm and a transparent conductive polymer.

Fabricated a Solar cell to be used in daily life which was cost efficient and achieved a fill factor of 46%.

Title: Design of CMOS Full Adders for Energy Efficient Applications (Senior Design Project). Spring - 2014

Designed a two high-speed and low-power full-adder cells in DSCH using 0.18 micrometer CMOS technology, and were tested using a comprehensive test bench in Micro wind software.

Used an alternative internal logic structure and pass-transistor logic styles that lead to have a reduced power-delay product (PDP).

Post-layout simulations showed that our proposed full-adders outperform its counterpart’s exhibiting an average PDP advantage of 80%, with only 40% of relative area.

TRAINING ON INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS

Learned the instrumental analysis skills for interdisciplinary research in the fields of Control Systems, Electromagnetics and Microfabrication such as instruments including ECU-565-128, BOSCH DV-E5 Throttle body, Network analyzer, UV Mask Aligner (EV-620), Trion RIE Etch systems, Spectroscopic Ellipsometer, Waveguides, and Antennas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Design and Simulation: MotoHawk & MotoTune, Simulink, CAN, CST Studio, COMSOL, HFSS, Micro Wind and DSCH, Xilinx

Languages : C Language, Matlab, Verilog, Java Basics, PLC

Tools : Express PCB and SCH tools, CAN king, CANalyzer, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, and Kiel software.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Co-Authored a paper in ACES Journal - 20150905 titled “Field Simulation Based Engineering of RF Antenna Probes with non-uniform substrates for High field MRI systems”. (Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society)

Published a Paper in IJSRD(International Journal for Scientific Research and Developments) titled Synchronous Digital Hierarchy -Volume I Issue 7

Obtained diploma in Communication Skills And Personality Development from Dept. of English, University College of Engineering (A), Osmania University Hyderabad, INDIA

Hosted a National level Technical Fest “INNOEVENT ‘12&’13 in my under-graduation.

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