NITHIN REDDY GADE
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Objective
To Pursue interests in the field of mechanical Engineering and apply the computational techniques learned with a new perspective aimed mainly towards the field of design and automation.
Education
MASTER OF SCIENCE JULY 2017 LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MI U.S.A.
Major: Mechanical Engineering – 3.10
SAE FORMULA HYBRID – 2017. Team Lead - Powertrain systems. Installing electro-pneumatic shift replacing the traditional shifting system which consumed 80% less battery and improved performance as tested using nitrogen instead of Atmospheric air. Drive train Mount Design was modified for reduced weight and improvised resistance for torsional forces. The World competition to be held during May 1-4 2017.
IGVC – 2016. Driverless Car “WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM”. The task was to make a prototype of a driverless car and participate in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition held at Rochester MI.
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY 2009-2013 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY INDIA
Major: Mechanical Engineering – 3.5
Industrial Oriented Bachelor Thesis at ATLAS COPCO on Performance improvement of drilling bits for Bore Wells
Mini Project at Indian Railways Hyderabad (Functionality of Dellener Couplers for linking railway Coaches.)
WORK EXPERIENCE
DESIGN ENGINEER INTERN
At Comptek Computer Systems Private Limited my task was to design a Rugged Computer for helicopter cockpit which should be able to sustain high thermal, vibration and structural forces. (May – Aug 2016)
INDUSTRIAL ORIENTED BACHELOR THESIS
ATLAS COPCO on Performance improvement of drilling bits for Bore Wells. Studied the existing models of boring drill bits and worked on finding failure points and researched on improvement.
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANT
At University athletics department field house (Sep-Nov 2015)
LEADERSHIP
Team Lead – Powertrain Systems – SAE Formula Hybrid 2017-Lawrence Tech (Aug 2016 – May 2017)
Awards & Achievements
Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition “WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP-2016” June 3-5 2016, MI, USA
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.
2nd Prize in ROBOWARS at TRYST 2012 Hosted by IIT Delhi.
1st Prize in ROBOWARS at BITS Pilani Hyd.
1st Prize at District level science fair under the theme Science Indigenous Technology & Sustainable development (2002)
3rd Prize at State Level Science Fair for Low-cost telescope and Mobile Planetarium (2003).
Silver Medal for Story Writing at State Level Story Writing and Drawing competitions held by Andhra Jyothi EMESCO 2004
Certificate of Appreciation for project “Water The resource that gets Used for everything” at 12th National Children’s Science Congress Catalyzed by Dept. of Science & Technology, Governmentt of India - 2004
Certificate of Merit at National General Knowledge Test conducted by Rajadhani Educational Society - 2005.
Certificate of merit at Dr. KV Rao Scientific Society – project themed under “Water Harvesting and Conservation for better future” – 2005
Participation
Underwater Robotics Workshop – TECHFEST 2011 – Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai
Robotics Workshop – Hbots 2010 – International Institute of Information Technology
93rd Indian Science Congress – Acharya NG Ranga agricultural University Hyderabad – 2006
94th Indian Science Congress – Annamalai University Chidambaram – 2007
Adastra 2010 – Robotics – Hosted By Microsoft and SNIST
Cognizance-2012 – RoboWars- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Shaastra – 2010 – RoboArm- Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Software & Skills
Dassault Systems certified SOLID WORKS associate
AutoCAD, MS Office, C, ** Python, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Language Skills
English, German, Hindi, Telugu
Interests
Robotics, Travel, Blogging
Hobbies
Swimming, Badminton, Reading Tech Magazines
Volunteering Activities
Co-Founded E.D.G.E. (NGO) to help school students in giving Career Guidance, Technological Awareness, Personality Development and Social Awareness.
-NITHIN REDDY GADE