Process Engineer

Nafeezuddin Mohammad

L***, **** E Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC 27411

336-***-**** ***********.********@*****.***

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Professional Summary

A Ph.D. chemical engineer working at the interface of chemical engineering, semiconductor processing, and material sciences.

Strong engineering and technical skills with innovative mindsets, problem-solving ability, and critical thinking.

Demonstrated ability to build and develop new processes, materials, products, and methods.

Extensive hands-on experience in Advance Micro/Nanofabrication technology, chemistry, and Catalysis Education

North Carolina A&T State University, Ph.D., Nanoengineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP), M.Tech., Chemical Engineering Osmania University College of Technology, B.Tech., Chemical Engineering December 2020

August 2015

May 2012

Skills

Area of Expertise

Equipment handled

Analytical Tool

Computer literacy

Improvement

Micro/Nanofabrication, Thin film deposition, Process engineering, and development for chemical process, Nanomaterial synthesis, and Characterization PVD (E-beam, Magnetron sputtering), ALD, UV-lithography, Dry (DRIE, RIE), and wet etching, mask aligner, and writer.

XPS, SEM, BET, XRD, TPD, TPR, FTIR, TGA, DSC, GC, GCMC AutoCAD, Origin, LabVIEW, and MS office

Six Sigma, Design of Experiment

Work History

Graduate Research Assistant Aug 2016-Present

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at NCAT - Greensboro, NC

Successfully designed and fabricated silicon and 3D printed microchannel microreactors as a lab-on-a-chip device

Developed and modified Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis and investigated the efficacy of the catalysts.

Improved FT efficiency using catalysts synthesized from Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technique, novel nano- catalysts incorporated in high surface area mesoporous supports (MCM-41, SBA-15, KIT-6)

Built and demonstrated a scale-up microreactor experimental setup for the high-pressure FT synthesis

Served as the Lab Manager for Microreactor Lab and involved in method developing and troubleshooting of instrument in Microreactor for other research projects that lead to professional publications Summer Intern, MaCI program Jun 2020-Aug 2020

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore, CA

Built and demonstrated the first joint thermo-electrochemical instrument that can produce higher hydrocarbons

(synthetic fuels) from CO2 in the microreactor

Prepared process flow diagram of the experimental setups. Designed reactors, piping, and instrumentations. Graduate Intern Jun 2019-Aug 2019

RTI International - Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities included analytical chemistry support for sample analysis, conducting laboratory catalyst testing

provided support for the team-oriented pilot-scale biomass conversion project, spreadsheet process modeling, and performing data analysis of products identification, chemical compositions, and material and energy balances Nafeezuddin Mohammad

L106, 2707 E Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC 27411

336-***-**** ***********.********@*****.***

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Entrepreneur Lead May 2019-Feb 2020

National Science Foundation (NSF)-I CORPS - Dallas, Texas

Demonstrated excellent leadership, strong business partnering, communication, and presentation skills in an academic team of four members. Submitted a NSF report based on the I-Corps training program.

Was dynamic in conducting over 130 interviews as part of the customer discovery process to validate the business model proposed for Greenergy Solutions (Team 1737) Certifications

memsX: Micro and Nanofabrication (EPFL)

IEN Micro-Fabrication (Georgia tech)

Soft Lithography and Microfluidics (Georgia tech)

Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) (NCSU)

Six Sigma Green Belt (NCAT)

Honors and Awards

National Science Foundation I-Corps National Program Award, Team Greenergy Solutions. 2020

UNCG I-Corps Site Award–Greensboro UNCG + NCAT I-Corps Site. 2019

Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 2013-2015

Best TEM image, Carolina Science Symposium 2018

Selected Publications & Patents

N.Mohammad.; S. Bepari, S. Aravamudhan, D. Kuila; Kinetics of Fischer Tropsch Synthesis in a 3D Printed Stainless Steel Microreactor Using Different Mesoporous Silica Supported Co-Ru Catalysts. Catalysts 2019, 9, 872.

N.Mohammad.; Fischer-Tropsch studies in a 3D-printed stainless steel microchannel microreactor coated with cobalt-based bimetallic-MCM-41 catalysts. Catalysis Today 2020.

N.Mohammad.; O.M. Basha, S.Bepari, R.Y. Abrokwah, V. Deshmane, L. Wang, S.Aravamudhan, D. Kuila; Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis in Silicon and 3D Printed Stainless Steel Microchannel Microreactors, Book Chapter in Catalysis for Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Volume-II, Refining, and Petrochemicals, In press.

N. Mohammad.; D. Kuila, O.M.Basha, S. Aravamudhan, Scale-up strategy of microreactors to build small scale modular Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) plants, Innovation disclosure filed.

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