Vehicle Crash Investigator & Assistant Technical Manager

ARJUN PADMANABHAN

Address: ***** ****** **** ***-***# Southfield, Michigan 48076

Phone: 313-***-****

Email: ****************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

To become a professional engineer, contributing to team efforts and achieving scalable heights in the organization I work with.

EDUCATION:

* Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan Master of Science in Automotive Engineering (3.58 CGPA) Expected May 2017

* PSG College of Technology Coimbatore, India

Bachelor of Automobile Engineering (3.0 CGPA) July 2011

SKILLS:

• Vehicle Crash Investigation & Crashworthiness

• PC-Crash 9.2, PC-Rect

• AIS Coding

• Solid works, Ansys, Abaqus, Pro-E Wildfire

• CNC Machining (Lathe, Drill, Arc Welding)

• Project Management

• Languages (English, German Basic, Tamil, Telugu)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

JP Research India Pvt. ltd. Pune, India

Crash Investigator & Assistant Technical Manager July 2011 - July 2015

• Analyzed real time vehicle crashes, to study vehicle dynamics, crash worthiness, occupant kinematics and safety system use during the crash

• Crash Scene Investigation to ascertain pre-crash and post-crash events and understanding the event for accident reconstruction

• Correlation of occupant contact to the interior component of a vehicle along with the injury sustained using AIS and ICD-10

• Documentation and code reviews to ensure Bug fixing in crash investigation module

• Successful completion of projects under this organization (listed below)

Road Accident Sampling System India (RASSI) Coimbatore, India Vehicle Crash Engineer August 2011 - July 2015

• It’s a comprehensive database contains 450+ variables, collected by on-site crash investigations and in-depth accident data collection

• Human functional failure analysis to determine the driver behavior and his/her decision making process just prior to a crash

• Analyze injury data and injury sources for various types of road user and publish the findings

Mahindra Automotive and Farm Equipment Sector India Team Leader Feburary 2013 - July 2015

• The project dealt with passenger cars and safety systems working when a vehicle involved in crash

• The vehicle main focus is on safety system behavior for the particular kind of crash

• This study also emphasis on occupant injury severity

Reconstructed 204 Vehicle Crashes of RASSI Pune, India Assistant Technical Manager May 2015 - June 2015

• Analyzed the data to identify the crash scenario in India in terms of accident trends (pre-crash event delta-v)

• Modifications of Contributing factors leading to accidents and influencing injuries

Mumbai Pune Expressway Road Safety Audit Pune, India Assistant Technical Manager May 2015 - June 2015

• Identified the infrastructure factors affecting the safety of road users along the whole length of the expressway

• Assess the potential safety risk to road users and to determine the effective infrastructure safety counter-measures that can be put in place

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan Cooling system of electronic chip on printed circuit board May 2016 - July 2016

• Evaluated the average temperature of each chip and PCB for the required velocities

• The geometry analysis and the simulations were performed using ANSYS (workbench 17.1). The results are obtained for the 400 iterations

• Results showed a significant decrease in the temperature of chip-1, chip-2 and PCB board

Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) August 2015 - Present

• Active member in Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE) student chapter

• Developed leadership skill through active participation in technical meeting along with the team members

• Responsible for vehicle brake system and cooling system for the Formula Hybrid vehicle

• Developed my technical knowledge by hands on experience, which helped in my employment carrier

PSG College of Technology Coimbatore, India

Fabrication of Alternative Fuel Engine for Two Wheeler August 2010 - February 2011

• Fabricated alternative fuel engine for M2W to reduce the exhaust emission and to increase the fuel economy

• Tests carried on Honda CD-100 single cylinder 4-stroke petrol engine. Alternative fuel for gasoline was hydrogen was produced by electrolysis reaction

• Achieved a significant difference in reduction of carbon dioxide emission compared to normal 4-stroke petrol emission

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Participated in “Geometric Dimension & Tolerance” workshop organized by Industrial Engineering and Operation management (IEOM-2016), LTU Southfield, Michigan

• Published and presented a technical paper on "In-Depth study on Motorized Two Wheeler Accidents in India" in International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI -2014), Berlin, Germany

• Participated in “International conference on scientific crash investigation and data collection influencing road safety policy” organized by JP Research India Private Limited, 2012, Coimbatore, India

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