Development Engineer

Isbaro Alan Bastin Alphonse

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

To constantly innovate and help build a technologically advanced and sustainable future in the automotive domain.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

TREMEC, Zedelgem - Development Engineer

June 2018 - Present

● Part of the 5 person dual clutch design and development team for the dual clutch transmission in the Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, and Chevrolet Corvette C8

● Responsible for clutch control related issue resolution, characterization and modelling for model based control

Includes but not limited to, characterization of influences on torque transfer via the dual clutch and electronic-limited slip differential (eLSD)

Characterization of influences on clutch and eLSD pressure control

Modelling and characterization of electro-hydraulic actuation systems

● Responsible for test definition, analysis, and reporting for relevant subsystem and transmission level characterization and validation tests.

● Extensive exposure to Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, SVN, MS Excel

● Significant exposure to CANape

Siemens PLM Software, Leuven - Project with the ‘1-D simulation’ team February 2017 - May 2017

● Conducted a model based design optimization of various ‘Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems’

● Compared optimized designs for given standard drive cycles and decided on the best fit for application.

● Worked with LMS Amesim and Matlab

Punch Powertrain, Sint-Truiden - Student Job as a Test Engineer August 2017 - September 2017

● Conducted unloaded acceptance tests on a functional test bench

● Automated the testing sequence and data logging for the unloaded acceptance tests in order to save time

● Worked with CANape, Matlab, Labview and MS Excel EDUCATION

KU Leuven, Leuven - Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Master Thesis: Development of an Electric Power Assisted Steering System For a Concept Car Using a Model-in-the-Loop

● Includes modelling of steering subsystem and integration into vehicle level system model, development of the control scheme, creation and implementation of a control algorithm and validation against SAE metrics.

Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology, Anna University, Chennai - Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Thesis: Development of a Novel Method to Increase Power Development in a Gasoline IC Engine

● Energy recovery system off the energy lost in the cylinder walls in an IC Engine and to use it to alter the thermodynamic cycle parameters such that the overall power output and net efficiency is increased. PROJECTS

SAE BAJA Competition: Power Train Design

● Team lead

● Determining engine characteristics and designing transmission characteristics required for the Baja car.

Control of a Trajectory Following Robot

● Worked to design and implement a PI Controller for velocity and position control.

● Worked to implement an extended Kalman filter.

Development of a Vehicle Dynamics Model

● Worked to build from scratch an 8-DOF vehicle dynamics model of a formula student car on Matlab and LMS Virtual.Lab

SKILLS

Software Proficiency:

● Modelling Software: PTC Creo, CATIA, AutoCAD, Siemens Nx

● Simulation and Analysis: Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, LMS AMESim, LMS Virtual.Lab LabView, CANape

● Programming Software: moderate level of Java and Python

● Utility Software: SVN, Sharepoint, MS Office

Languages Known:

● Native Speaker: English, Tamil

● Conversational: Dutch

● Beginner level: German, Hindi

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