SANKET SETHIYA

Lowell, MA ***** 978-***-**** ada3h7@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/sanket-sethiya OBJECTIVE

Ambitious Master’s Candidate in Plastics Engineering, seeking a full-time positon in Plastic Processing.

Working Experience in an engineering manufacturing environment.

Excellent understanding of plastic materials and plastic processing techniques.

Operating experience with injection, extrusion, thermoforming machines and material testing.

Familiar with SolidWorks, Moldflow, Microsoft Office.

Demonstrated communication and teamwork skills.

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA Dec-2019

Master of Science- Plastic Engineering- GPA (3.6/4)

Graduate Certificate in Advance Plastic Materials and Processing (UMass Lowell-2018)

National Lab Certificate in Processing and Thermoforming of LDPE/LLDPE blend. (NCL, India) Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India April-2014

Bachelor of Engineering-Polymer/Plastic Engineering (CGPA-3.6/4.0) RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Intern, Product Development; Injection Molding (Berry Global), Evansville, Indiana May-Aug 2019

Introduced foaming additive in PP closures for weight and cycle time reduction.

Utilized knowledge of scientific injection molding principles, repair and programming, and valve gates in order to achieve the desired goal of successfully foaming PP closures.

Achieved 6% weight reduction and 9% cycle time reduction on an 8-cavity mold.

Strengthened management skills, gained knowledge in injection molding and was exposed to corporate world. Intern, Injection Molding Manufacturing (Electronica Plastic Machines Ltd.), Pune, India Dec 2017- Feb 2018

Assisted in the manufacturing and assembling of injection molding machines of various tonnages and sizes.

Supported the set-up of base assembly, injection and clamping units.

Dimension and quality check of platens, barrels, screws, tie bar and other spares.

Conducted final inspection and testing of Injection molding machines. Intern, Co-extrusion and Thermoforming of PET Sheets (Santosh Packaging Pvt. Ltd.), Pune, India

Learned extrusion operating conditions and techniques to extrude a multi-layer PET film (A-B-A)

Operated KIEFEL (KMD-78B) machine to thermoform PET sheets into clamshell punnets.

Identified ways to improve design of the living hinge and locking system.

Helped in assisting new machine to extrude recycled flakes into pellets to increase sheet output and density. ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Blending of LDPE/LLDPE blends and its thermoforming at NCL, Pune.

Blended LLDPE as major component into LDPE as minor component and studied its rheological properties.

The blend was compression molded into sheets and successfully thermoformed into cups.

Achievement: Increased melt strength to make LLDPE thermoformable. Lab Manufacturing of SAP (Super Absorbent Polymer) powder and is applications.

Carried out the process in a properly designed environment with specific attention to materials and weights.

Prepared Polyacrylate Superabsorbent Powder by distillation polymerization in a lab.

Achievement: Produced water absorbent pads that are successfully used in the agricultural industry. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Materials-LDPE, HDPE, ABS, PC, EVA, PP, PDMS, PET

Processing: 3D printing, Injection Molding, Extrusion, Thermoforming, Blow and Rotational Molding

Testing: DMA (TA instruments) and Tensile Testing Machine (Instron), DSC and TGA (TA instruments), Polymer

Rheology Software: -Bluehill MCR (Anton 2.0, Moldflow, Paar), capillary SolidWorks, rheometer, Autodesk FTIR, Fusion SEM, NMR, 360, MS Gas Word, Chromatography, MS Excel, MS HPLC PowerPoint. RELEVANT COURSES

Advanced Plastics Processing, Advanced Mold Design, Product Design; Polymer Structure, Properties and Applications, Advanced Plastics Materials, Materials Science, Medical Device Design. Aug-Dec 2016

July 2017-March ‘18

June-Aug 2016

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