Aasha Rathnaraj

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EDUCATION

M.S INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING • 3.35/4(till date) Class of May 2017 University at Buffalo, SUNY Major in Production Systems B.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING • First Class with Distinction 2012-2016 Anna University, Chennai, India Received Scholarship for Excellence in Academics EXPERIENCE

ENGINEERING INTERN MAY 2015-JUN 2015

Raini Industries India Pvt. Limited, Chennai Training in Injection molding, Blow Molding, Power press, Sheet metal fabrication, Paint shop Following up 5S implementation Job scheduling TRAINEE DEC 2013

Raini Industries India Pvt. Limited (Tool Room), Ekkattuthangal, Chennai Training in Mold making, Tool room practices, Lathe, Milling machine, Surface finishing, Tool types, Design practices TRAINING

Day long training at India Piston Rings Ltd., Chennai, India- Flexible manufacturing systems

Attended two-day workshop on Robotics conducted by Spark Lab in January, 2014- Basics of sensors, Line follower robot, Pick and place robot

PROJECTS

Forecasting Inventory for Tapecon Inc. Ongoing

Reducing Annual Inventory Cost by forecasting and determination of economic order quantity, safety stock etc.

Lot Traceability through Inventory Automation (Tapecon Inc.) Ongoing Created Project Charter, Worked with Inventory Control software,

• Simulation and Optimization 2017

Optimization of garbage disposal using @Risk

Call centers queueing theory, discrete factory scheduling Simulation-Arena

Importance of Assumptions in Problem Solving and Teamwork-Six Sigma 2016 Designed and conducted an experiment to test the importance of assumptions Tools: Cause and effect analysis, Pareto Diagram, t-test (Minitab)

A Multifunctional Wheelchair Design Prototype for more user friendly applications 2016 Proposed a novel wheel chair design with features to facilitate stair case climbing, standing position, speech recognition etc.

Design and Fabrication of a Green Rural Utility Vehicle (GRUV)-SAEIndia eBAJA 201*-****-**** Roll cage and all subsystems designed, manufactured and tested Vehicle was equipped with a fully functioning telemetric system, which transmitted key parameters in real time Coordinator and design team member of SAEIndia Ebaja team of Sri Sairam Engineering College, which was placed 3rd in Static Events and 6th in Overall National Ranking

Design, Engineering and Analysis of Compact Boiler 2015-2016 Capstone project in undergraduate degree Implementation of turbulators to replace tubes in boilers using Matlab making the boilers compact and easy to maintain

Design and Fabrication of Compact Augmented Heat Exchanger 2014-2015 Study of heat exchanger with different types of turbulators SOFTWARE SKILLS

Design and Modeling: ProE, Creo, AutoCAD, NX CAD • Statistics: Minitab, @Risk, Arena • Office tools: MS Office Suite, StarOffice, Apple Office Suite • OS: Windows (all versions), MacOS OTHER SKILLS

Communication, Leadership, Customer service, Problem solving, Analytical thinking AR