SASITEJA GUNUKULA

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Cookeville, TN 38501 931-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly motivated professional engineer with extensive project experience in launches from concept to development. Experience across multiple industries including automotive and consumer manufacturing. Talents include product design in manufacturing. Maintenance of sheet metal, castings, injection-molding machines, complex assemblies, mechanisms, electric motors and controllers.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Nissan North America – Smyrna, TN. 05/15-08/15

Manufacturing & Maintenance Engineer/ Intern Supervisor for FPL2 (Fascia Paint Line)

Managed technical maintenance staff and assisted technicians with technical problem solving, reducing down time for chronic issues such as UBE#6(4000 Ton Plastic Injection Molding Machine) Zone 5 heater band failures; followed strict safety guidelines with Just in Time (JIT) environment.

Planned and scheduled work, created Cadre & PMs and MBRs,and updated GMR board; Experienced in FMEA, TS16949, APQP, PPAP, Lean, etc.; generated order requests for spares and developed TIS (Technical Information Sheet) reports.

Worked with tool and die maintenance technicians, testing color match for final products and observing trail check for line speed and layers of color check (X-rite color test).

Tennessee Technological University – Cookeville, TN 01/15-Present

Senior Project Coordinator and Teaching Assistant

Teaching assistant & Lab in-charge for ME Capstone Senior Design Project. Tutor undergraduate students in designing and manufacturing course concepts (AutoCAD, Solid works, Catia, Ansys, CNC, etc.); run lab sessions for MET students; grade assignments and designs; coordinate and lead students to successfully complete senior projects.

Seido Industries – Chennai, TN, India 05/13-07/14

Manufacturing (Tooling/ Process) Engineer

Managed new project launches of stamping, plastic injection molding components and lead designing for manufacturing team; Involved in various End to End product development of automotive, aerospace and consumer electronic goods. Performed detailed calculations using engineering drawing to establish manufacturing standards and specs to meet customer requirements, followed lean processes while maintaining a 100% accuracy rate.

Design & development of electro mechanical & automotive components made with sheet metal, aluminum die casting, plastic & machining parts; Analyzed and planned work force utilization, space requirements; Experienced in flexible PCBA, FMEA, GD&T, tolerance analysis.

Created assembly and layout drawings using AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Pro-e, and Catia; developed CADD drawings for newly acquired projects, implemented, evaluated, and improved manufacturing methods; maintained central database for plant layouts, material handling labor tools, and other lean manufacturing documentation, vendor management.

Seido Industries – Chennai, TN, India 07/10-05/13

Manufacturing (Tooling/ Process) Engineer Trainee

Interpreted drawing markups and implemented drawing revisions provided by engineers; collaborated with product engineering, quality and manufacturing to meet product requirements.

Creating assembly and layout drawings using AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Pro-e and Catia; maintained process flow, PFMEA, line balancing.

Processed planning of various manufacturing aspects for development of injection molds and press tools; conducted experimental tests to collect design data for structural strength analysis of products; applied statistical methods to estimate future manufacturing requirements and potential; implemented continuous improvement & scrap reduction.

NTTF Industries. Pvt. Ltd – Bangalore, KA, India 07/09-06/10

Industrial Trainee

Designed, developed, and fabricated high precision press tools and injection molds, pressure die casting, and jigs and fixtures for different consumer products like auto AC controllers, signal & viper liver, interior side door panel components, dash board components; troubleshot automotive component production problems for customers such as Toyota, Emcon, Techaero, Suessen, Asia.

Improved product quality by customizing tools and eliminating variability; conducted experimental tests to collect design data and assist in research work.

Followed verbal instructions and hand sketches to adapt and modify tooling; compiled data and generated graphs to interpret results and suggest key operational improvements.

SKILLS

AutoCAD; SolidWorks; StarCCM+; Catia V4/V5/V6; Ansys; MasterCam; PTC-Creo; Pro-e; GD&T, Lean Manufacturing; Fluid Mechanics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Finite Element Analysis/Method; Sheet-Metal Machine Design;Tooling Design; Quality Systems (5-S, Continuous Improvement Process, KAIZEN, KANBAN), Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma; Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

EDUCATION

Tennessee Technological University – Cookeville, TN Graduation: 08/16

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.25

Saveetha University – Chennai, TN, India Graduation: 05/13

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.5

Nettur Technical Training Foundation – Gannavaram, AP, India Graduation: 06/09

Diploma in Tool & Die Making GPA: 3.5

GRADUATION PROJECTS

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Analysis of Laminar Fully Developed Flow in Circular Pipe Utilizing STARCCM+ Software

Analyzed water distribution networks, design parameters, and pipe’s coefficient of friction.

Utilized discrete nature of numerical solution and finite-volume mesh to experimentally verify dependency of truncation error on mesh size; proved via experimentation that proposed model could be used with highest degree of accuracy of 0.32 friction factor in comparison to other methods.

Advanced Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing

Finite Element Method Analysis on Locomotive Pressure Relief Valve System Using PTC Creo & ANSYS

Collaborated with one team member to calculate spring constant, force acting in spring, and research modal frequency of system to prevent larger vibration during operation.

Designed and assembled locomotive pressure relief valve system; simulated design by importing it into Ansys and conducting experimental tests; achieved modal frequencies that showed reduction of larger vibration in system during operation according to simulation.

Additional Experiments and Achievements

Designed and fabricated solar power-operated sprayer.

Collaborated on renewable fuel – hydrogen – for four stroke engine.

Created and tested air conditioning unit waste heat recovery system.

Drafted and developed combined wind turbine and solar energy system.

Worked on uninterrupted power supply utilizing wind and solar energy with gyroscopic effect.

Published a paper titled "UNINTERRUPTED POWER GENERATION FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES" in International Journal for Current Research Available online at http://www.journalcra.com.

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