Priyanka Kanherkar

321-***-**** adc2jj@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/pkanherkar Chicago, IL Professional Summary

• NASA acclaimed researcher since 2013 securing among top 10 at SAE Aero Design West Competition

• Engineered to Fly - Dassault System certified for Aerospace & Defense with 3 years of experience in PLM domain to develop a product from concept to implementation

• Skillful in creating detailed mechanical drawings per ASME standards using Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance skills, Sheet Metal Design, Electrical Harnessing etc.

Technical Skills

CATIA V5-6, 3DExperience Enovia, CATIA DMU, CATIA Electrical Harnessing, SolidWorks, XFoil/Xflr, Simulia, ICEM-CFD, ANSYS Meshing, ANSYS FLUENT, Techplot, C/C++, MATLAB, LABVIEW, PostGreSQL Work Experience

Aerospace Systems Engineer, Technia USA, Florida Jun’17 - Present

• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to provide PLM services to Engineering & Manufacturing companies across a variety of industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Life Sciences

• Implemented Q-PLM with Enovia SmarTeam and integrated Q-Checker to enhance the quality of CAD product

• Created an aircraft beam structure for an OEM and performed transient FEA analysis using Abaqus Simulia

• Designed a car seat for a leading car producer and analyzed head impact upon crash using Abaqus

• Performed BOM management & XCAD integrations of CATIA v5 & Solidworks using Power’By

• Part of Technia’s Global SOLIDWORKS team that helps maximize the accuracy of customer’s designs & simulations globally

• Performed design optimizations on Electric Vehicles using CAVA (CATIA – Automotive Extensions Vehicle Architecture)

• Developed wiring harness of a Mower for a leading mower producer using CATElectre

• Worked with Part Design, Assembly Design, Sheet Metal Design, Engineering BOM, Digital Mock-up (DMU), Generative Shape Design (GSD), CATIA Electrical, Solidworks to design various industry solutions

• Worked on AWS Live App stream 2.0 & Cloud setup for CAD integrations

• Lead global Technical Pre-sales initiatives for Technia’s CAD Applications Research Assistant, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Jan’15 - May’17

• Analyzed different docking & capturing mechanisms to combat space debris for NASA funded project

• Performed experiments on thin wires for various ranges of Reynold number using hot wire resulting in reduction of drag coefficient by 26% also, validation computationally using one-way FSI technique

• Created devices to enhance the performance of low aspect ratio wings using Leading Edge suction & verified data empirically

• Executed the real time surface wind analysis of Hurricane Mathew

• Performed FEA analysis like Modal transient analysis on various aircraft structures like beam, compressor blades etc Graduate Student Assistant, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Jan’16 - May’17

• Assessed, mentored & conducted lab sessions for students to develop competency & help them understand the course material in depth – Aerospace Practicum, Dynamics, Aerospace Structures I, II Student Intern, University of Pune, Pune, India May’12 - Jul’12

• Designed an application for Fin Stabilized Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot in C++ for calculating the forces on the missile when in air & determining the 6DOF

Academic Projects

Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Jan’15 - May’17

• Simplified Euler & Navier – Stokes Equation CFD model for Incompressible Flow

• Designed a NACA 23012 airfoil & analyzed flow parameters at different Reynolds Number using the Vortex Panel Method

• Designed MATLAB application for a NACA 23013 airfoil

• Designed and performed FEA Modal analysis on a Rocket fin and analyzed the data computationally using ANSYS Hindustan University, Chennai, India Aug’12 - May’14

• Designed & fabricated a Battery Propelled Micro Air Vehicle leading a 7-member team to showcase the design at the SAE Aero Design West 2013, Van Nuys, CA fetching us a position in top 10 globally

• Nominated for best project at “Fly Your Ideas” International Competition organized by AIRBUS

• Modelled & Simulated a NACA 0024 co-flow jet airfoil to increase the lift & decrease the stall margin with reduction in drag using CATIA v5 & verified data in a wind tunnel setup

• Designed an aircraft assembly using CATIA v5 and analyzed structural stress using ANSYS Education

Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering (GPA 3.3) Jan’15 - May’17 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA Bachelor of Engineering, Aerospace Engineering (GPA 3.4) Aug’10 - May’14 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai, India Certifications

• Advance CAD modeling package - AUTOCAD, PRO-E, CATIA v5, ANSYS Structural, Mechanical APDL, Workbench, FLUENT, Hyper Mesh

• Engineered to fly - Demonstrate (Aerospace & Defense Industry Specific Certification) Publications

• “Experimental Investigation of the co-flow jet airfoil with blowing and suction”. ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 9, No. 6(2014) pp. 645-654 "Experimental Investigation of co-flow jet airfoil with blowing and suction”

• “A CFD and Experimental Study of Thin Flexible Wire in a Cross Flow”. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (FFHMT’16) Ottawa, Canada. Paper No. 134

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