Mechanical Engineer

APARNA VAKATI **********@*****.***

Houston, Texas 346-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparna-vakati/ CORE COMPETENCIES

Solid Works (Proficient) Revit (Proficient)

Auto CAD (Proficient) SAP (Intermediate)

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) (Proficient) ERP (Proficient) Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) (Intermediate) MathCad (Intermediate) Minitab (Intermediate) Autodesk Inventor (Intermediate) PYTHON (Basic) CREO (Basic)

Design of Experiments (DOE) (Intermediate) CATIA (Intermediate) CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSURES

Engineer in Training (EIT) – Texas Board of Professional Engineers

GASTRAK – Data Management Solutions

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

Mechanical Engineer, South Central Railway India – India Apr/2016 to Jul/2016

Worked on the drawings of locomotive to optimize design for production and to improve efficiency

Analyzed quality control measures and product specifications related to production processes

Studied about different systems like fuel injection system, braking system, cooling system, lubrication system

Assisted with documentation involving drawings, BOM’s, SOP’s for different projects according to industrial standards Manufacturing Engineer, Ashok Leyland – Chennai, India Apr/2015 to Aug/2015

Designed prototypes of different parts of heavy-duty vehicle like leaf springs, actuators, linkages and tested them

Worked along with the shop floor employees to provide project outline and assisted project managers

Reduced the ideal time caused due to transportation of outsourcing parts and increased the yield by 15%

Investigated different parts returned and wrote a detailed report about reasons for the issue and methods to solve them WORK EXPERIENCE

Instructional Assistant, University of Houston – Houston, TX Aug/2018 to Present

Oversee working of different HVAC equipment in the building and actively participate in daily discussions and meetings

Collaborated with administration to implement support services and handled complaints with intrinsic problems

Handled common enquiries of academic public and other representatives and resolved them immediately

Created changes for improving processes while simultaneously following the pre-established guidelines Office Assistant, Aramark – Houston, TX Aug/2017 to Jul/2018

Converted invoices of all the inventory to product orders and monitored operations in inventory storage

Checked and assured that proper inventory is available and contacted clients to assure that delivery is done on time

Created presentations for different client and managerial interactions and organized meetings PROJECTS

Fabrication and analysis on jute and corn natural fiber reinforced hybrid composite

Lead the project aiming to prove that synthetic fiber usage can be replaced by natural fiber in day to day applications

Investigated the widely available natural fibers and decided upon to explore mechanical properties of jute and corn

Fabricated them in pure, mixed forms with 20 different compositions and weight percentages as per ASTM standards

Tested each specimen properties by performing tensile, bending, impact test and found where they can be best used CFD analysis on ejector in an ejector cooling system

Analyzed supersonic ejector used in refrigeration system simulating 2 refrigerating fluids using experimental conditions

Obtained velocity variations along with radii for different mesh arrangements and calculated error percentages

Observed variation of static pressure, static temperature and Mach number with position Linear Peristaltic Pump - A MEMS device

Proposed to build a linear micro peristaltic pump to pump medical drugs using electrostatic force to actuate

Modified existing rotary peristaltic pump to have advantage of changing volume flow rate and to be flexible with bends

Planned and established sequence of operations to fabricate and assemble parts to promote efficient utilization

With a simple structure the power consumption of device became very low and the response is faster Design and fabrication of quadcopter

Studied rotary-wing aircraft and their dynamics and design and concepts of embedded systems behind multi-copters

Fabricated quadcopter frame and its circuit and calibrated and tested the quadcopter using radio control to fly it EDUCATION

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering MSME University of Houston Houston, TX USA May/2019 Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering BSME JNTU Andhra Pradesh India May/2017 COURSEWORK

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Phase transformation in materials, Engineering Economy, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Introduction to Micro electro mechanical systems, Designing and modeling, Engineering drawing LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Adjudged best cadet at National Cadet Corps and flew a micro-light aircraft

Committee member in different organizations like ASME,ISTE and organized different events involved in them

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