Engineer Electrical

Sapna Pandey

******@***.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/sapnapandey 2012 Woodmar drive, Apt-D

906-***-**** Hougton, MI

Summary

• Highly analytical, performance-driven Electrical Engineer with 6 plus years of Industrial experience in Automotive domain.

• Experience in analysis, Implementation, verification and validation of customer requirement.

• Expert Model based developer and tester in Transmission Control unit and Body Control Module.

• Strong working knowledge of industrial software tools: MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, CarMaker, Reactis and CANoe.

• Proven ability in automation using MATLAB Scripting and VBA Excel.

• Experience in reverse engineering, V-cycle for software development and Agile methodology.

• Experience in testing (HIL/SIL/MI).

• Co-operative and responsible engineer, good interpersonal skills, and excellent team member Education

Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) 2008-2012 (GPA: 7.2/10) G.B. Pant university of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar, UK, India. Master of Science Electrical Engineering 2019-2020 (GPA:3.3/4) Michigan Technological University

Skills

Programming Languages: C, C++, M-script, VBA, Python Software & Tools: MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, Reactis, MotoHawk, CarMaker, Canoe, Doors, MS Office, Jira, SVN, Team Forge

Work Experience

Continental Automotive India, Bangalore, India Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 Position: Senior Engineer

Advance Driver Assistance System

• Integrated Algorithms like ACC, EBA and LKA using MATLAB for closed loop virtual testing of the ADAS systems

• Performed testing of the integrated close loop ADAS module using Car maker

• Developed CAN Simulator Using MATLAB for later integration with other ADAS functions KPIT Technologies, Pune, India Jul 2015 - Oct 2017 Client: DAF Trucks

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Model based Development/Testing in MATLAB for Body Control Module

• Migrated legacy MATLAB Simulink model as per the updated design architecture

• Developed BCM model from the scratch using Technical Requirement specification like Interior lights control, Exterior lights control and Aftermarket Switches

• Reviewed & verified the requirements of MRS (Model Requirement Specification) and TRS (Technical Requirement Specification)

• Updated/developed the MATLAB Simulink Model according to the requirement in Model requirement specification

• Prepared & reviewed the unit test cases with respect to Model requirement specification and functional test cases as per the technical requirement specification

• Performed Unit Testing on MBDS platform and updated EA (Enterprise Architect) diagrams at architecture level

• Resolved HPQC issue from Basic CAN layer to Application layer and handled issue occurred at Vehicle testing

(FRACAS)

• Suggested and implemented automation scripts for various tasks using Matlab scripting. TATA Consultancy Services Ltd Nov 2012 - Jun 2015 Client: Nissan (Jatco)

Position: System Engineer

Model based Development (MBD) in MATLAB for Transmission Control Unit (TCU)

• Developed fixed point as well as floating point Simulink/Stateflow model from legacy C code

• Automated multiple tasks by using MATLAB scripting

• Generated test suite using Reactis

• Tested Models using Software in loop (SIL) and Model in loop testing (MIL) with respect to S-Function

• Generated Auto code from model using TargetLink

Academic Projects:

Remote Electronic Throttle Control (ETC- BOSCH DV E5) via Control Area Network (CAN) MTU Dec 2019

• Established and tested CAN communication between two ECU’s using Motohawk blocks

• Used CANking -Kvaser CAN bus to monitor and analyze the data fields and compared it with the values displayed in Moto tune

• Achieved controlled mass airflow through the ETC of DV E5 and Pedal of Ford Using Discrete PID algorithm Development of Hybrid Electrical Vehicle Powertrain Controller using Simulink MTU Nov 2019-Dec 2019

• Designed Model Based HEV Controller in real-time using Simulink, Stateflow (State Machine), MotoHawk Blocks and was prototyped on MotoTron Desktop I/O simulator (Freescale MPC565 ECU) using autocode generation from scratch

Development of hybrid vehicle drive train controller using State-flow Jan 2019

• Developed Series and parallel powertrain controller with inputs of APP, BPP, SOC and velocity.

• Validated four parallel states of controller: Charging, Battery protection, Blending and Braking against known set of inputs.

Intelligent Cruise control MTU Oct 2019

• Designed a Simulink model for velocity controller to maintain vehicle speed when any lead vehicle is greater than a safe distance.

• Implemented headway controller which maintained safe distance when the lead vehicle is sufficiently close.

• Intelligent cruise control implemented in Stateflow which needs 19 second to intelligently switch between these two controls when necessary

Fuel Control in a Spark Ignition Engine MTU April 2019

• Developed a feedforward transient fuel system to compensate for rapidly changing throttle settings

• A feedback system that uses the ego sensor output and computes a modification to the fuel flow using Smith predictor was designed.

Fuel Injection Control and Temp. Compensation to improve the fuel economy using MotoTron RPS MTU Jun 2019

• Simulated and actuated a fuel injector using MotoTron RPS and found the injector parameter like SOI and injection using the Oscilloscope

• Created temperature compensation and protection model to improve the fuel injection control Automotive Application using CAN and LIN Communication MTU Jan 2019-Mar 2019

• Worked on CAN controlled algorithm for ADAS modules, Autonomous parking, Direction control using Atmega2560 and MCP2515 transceiver (emulated as CAN nodes) and Embedded C code developed in Arduino IDE

• Implemented Code for reading sensors data, signal conditioning of analog data into digital data and engineering values

• Gained knowledge of In-vehicle communication V2V, V2I and V2X technologies Leadership

Teaching Assistant j Michigan Technological University Aug 2019 - Present

• Conducted weekly Physics Lab sessions of 20+ students while providing one on one feedback on the areas of improvement.

Mentor KPIT Technologies Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

• Mentored 10+ students on how to learn effectively and tackle project related problems.

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