NIYATI VALA

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201-***-****• adc08w@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

University of New Haven West Haven, CT

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering January 2020 Institute of Technology, Nirma University Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Energy Systems July 2016 GPA: 3.8/4.0

Vishwakarma Government Engineering College Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering June 2014 GPA:3.7/4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Indrashil Institute of Science & Technology June 2016 – January 2018 Assistant Professor Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Taught five undergraduate engineering level courses to 200+ students per semester

Conducted external field research in coordination with department colleagues and administrators

Assisted in drafting and updating engineering program curriculum requirements and guidelines to fit current industry demand.

Provided individual mentoring and advice to students as required for class projects.

Published a variety of scholarly articles in journals. Larsen & Toubro (L& T) May 2015 – July 2015

Mechanical Audit Engineer Surat, Gujarat, India

Performed energy audit of Howden Private Ltd (customer).

Created HVAC schematics and performed analysis of HVAC plant in L&T. RMP Bearing March 2013 – June 2013

Intern as Product Development Engineer Ranpur, Gujarat, India

Created various bearing design models and drawings using Pro-Engineering for the customers

Developed various systematic design and manufacturing process in the production to increase efficiency

Applied six sigma lean processes to increase production yield and reduced scrap for bearing production

Interacted with teams and kept track of customers’ specification and requirements to meet project milestones. TECHNICAL SKILLS

ANSYS, PRO-E, Creo, Solidsworks, Catia V5, Autocad., minitab, matlab, MS office

PROJECTS AND RESEARCH

Energy Generation through vibration energy through railway tracks August2016- June 2017

This project is based on investigation of train weight pressure, electric generator which can generate electrical energy from an external energy like heat energy, mechanical energy, wind energy, hydro energy

According to the piezoelectric direct effect, piezoelectric material can generate electrical energy from an external energy like mechanical vibration.

The piezoelectric effect converts mechanical strain into electric current or voltage. It is based on the fundamental structure of a crystal lattice.

Design of Automatic Parking System for Two-Wheeler June 2016- February 2017

Proposal of “Smart parking system” that exploits technology for parking space have availability detection and which allocate optimal parking spots to drivers instead of only supplying and give guidance to them.

Developed the system defined infrastructure and basic smart parking procedure which studied the main requirement to implement such a system and provide the essential solution. By using this Parking system the retrieving time can be reduced to approximately 3 minutes. CFD Analysis of Heat transfer in Compound Parabolic Concentrator June 2015 – April 2016

Prepared geometric model of the CPC using CREO.

Analyzed CFD of the CPC using ANSYS and collected results of validation from the available literature.

Investigated influence of change to concentration ratio and surface radiation to CPC properties Heat flow analysis of Friction Stir Welding June 2013 – May 2014

Developed a model for Friction Stir Welding.

Implemented the ANSYS and APDL Code on Numerical model of FSW plates.

Gain Temperature gradient contour on a horizontal plane has revealed the temperature profile before and after welding operation.

Compared experimental and analytical result data shows that 15-20% variation in temperature occurs in ANSYS data and Experimental data.

PUBLICATIONS

Niyati Vala, Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation of Heat transfer in Compound Parabolic Concentrator. Presented the paper in International Conference of Power & Energy (ASME) held at North Carolina, USA

(June,2017)

Maharshi Gandhi, Niyati Vala, Aamir Vahora, Nikhil Shetty. Design of an Automatic Parking System for Two- Wheelers. International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development, India. Volume 04 Issue 03, March 2017. ISSN No: 2348-4470.