Engineering Microsoft Office

DARSHAN JAWARE

**** * ***** **** ***-*** Los Angeles, California 90007 213-***-**** ******@***.*** EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. May 2017 Viterbi School of Engineering. GPA - 3.76

Master of Science, Materials Engineering.

Courses: Molecular Dynamics and process simulation; Material Selection; Introduction to Photovoltaics; Thermodynamics of Materials, Solid State Processing and IC Lab; Thin Films Science and Technology; Semiconductor Physics, Failure Analysis. College of Engineering Pune, India May 2015

Bachelor of Technology, Metallurgical Engineering. GPA- 7.67 Courses: Materials Characterization; Materials Analysis; Corrosion and Surface Protection; Manufacturing Technology; Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology; Polymers and Composites; Design and Selection of Materials; Ceramic Engineering. SKILLS

Characterization: XRD Analysis, Metallography, Optical Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, familiar with AFM, AES, TEM (sample preparation and operation), EDS.

Computer: Molecular Dynamic Simulation, LAMMPS, Microsoft office, Matlab, Scilab, C-Programming. LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Researcher – Professor Kapadia Research Group May-Aug 2016 USC Ming Hsieh Institute – Department of Electrical Engineering

Responsible for optical and Electrical Characterization of Indium Phosphide Transistors.

Hands on experience in Lift off process.

Acquired experience in simulation of thermal conductivity across an interface of two different Materials (Silicon– Germanium).

CMOS Fabrication on 3’’ Silicon Wafer May-July 2016

Fabricated MOSFET, capacitors, Resistors in a Clean room performing various processes like oxidation, controlled diffusion, Etching, Metallization, photolithography, wet etching, ion implantation.

Hands on Experience in electrical testing of CMOS devices namely P-N Diodes, Capacitors, Resistors and MOSFET eventually determining the figures of merit.

Student Research Assistant – University of Southern California. Jan-May 2016

Conducted Metallography of Rolled Titanium sheets.

Acquired knowledge with respect to Sample preparation for TEM analysis. Project Trainee-TATA Motors Ltd, Pune, India - Foundry and Machine Tool Division. June-July 2013

Analyzed the effect of moisture on the cold tensile strength of the cold box core used as an essential part in casting Gray cast iron engine block.

Facilitated in carrying out Bill of Material for different casting products under the production line, in order to cut down losses on rhetorical parts used.

PROJECTS

Material Selection of Rotor Disc for Disc Brake system. Aug- Dec 2016 Formulated a Material Selection problem and using CES Edu-pack software attain a plausible material as a solution to the problem.

Implemented the Ashby approach for material Selection along with CES Edu-pack software.

Enlisted alternate Efficient Materials to cast iron which is the frequent choice for Rotor material. Molecular Dynamic Simulation. Jan- May 2016

Modeled Three component metallic glass (Cu-Ni-Al) using L-J potential and simulated to determine thermal conductivity across the 3D metallic system.

Using LAMMPS simulated Nano-indentation with different indenter size to determine hardness of Cu. Review Paper On CIGS Thin Film Solar Cells Feb-May 2016

Presented term paper on CIGS thin film solar cell discussing the working fundamentals, problems and use of alternative buffer layer in the construction of the thin film cells. Study of AISI 304 Stainless Steel after Carburizing and Subsequent Laser Hardening. Aug-May 2016

Achieved Two-fold increase in the surface hardness due to formation of Iron Carbide and transformation induced stress in the region in vicinity of the laser raster scanned surface. LEADERSHIP

Secretary – Mork Family Department Master’s Student Organization, USC. Jan-Dec 2016

With the help of committee member smartly Planned within the budget provided, organized and developed events which help students to interact with the faculty, Alumni and fellow Master Students. Lead Passport Verification Assistant- Office of International Services- USC

Organized and monitored the team of 20 student coordinators to effectively verify the documents of more than 2000 incoming international students and processed the documents.

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