KUNAL KAKKAR

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OBJECTIVE

Extremely passionate mechanical engineer skilled in Vehicle design and regulations striving to excel in the Electric vehicle industry with strong leadership skills

WORK EXPERIENCE

PRODUCT ENGINEER, E-TRIO AUTOMOBILES PVT LTD MAY 2019 - PRESENT

Product development of Electric three-wheeler (L5 Category): Market study & Benchmarking, partner and vendor’s finalization, design, testing and homologation.

Individually carried out homologation (type approval and FAME 2) for four models of EV Three-wheeler.

Responsible for CAD & CAE

Successfully established and managed the operational and technical framework of the vehicle testing department.

PATENT: Kakkar, Kunal. 2019. BATTERY PACK COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYED THEREOF. India Patent Application 201*********, filed 16/10, 2019.Patent Pending.

TEAM CAPTAIN, CAMBER RACING (Formula SAE TEAM) MAY 2018 - MARCH 2019

Leading the formula student team at SRM Institute consisting of 30 students designing and fabricating a race car to compete in engineering design competitions.

WHEEL ASSEMBLY ENGINEER, CAMBER RACING (Formula SAE TEAM) JAN 2016 - MAY 2018

Optimized hub design by a 70% increase in Factor of Safety.

Improved vehicle suspension characteristics by reducing the bump steer to zero using Lotus shark suspension analysis software.

ACADEMIC DETAILS

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 2015-2019

SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai Percentage – 78.2

PROJECTS

Calculating and validating stiffness of a suspension component of a Formula Student race car. Completed in May 2018 (Minor Project, SRM IST)

Experimental analysis of the flow characteristics of a KTM390 Engine head using bench flow testing. Completed in November 2018 (Minor Project, SRM IST)

Calculating and validation of the torsional stiffness of a space frame tubular chassis of formula student race car. Completed in April 2019 (Major Project, SRM IST)

SOFTWARES KNOWN

SKILLS

AUTOCAD, SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, PTC CREO (CAD)

Engineering materials & Manufacturing techniques

Mechanical components testing and validation

ANSYS, SIMSCALE (CAE)

Leadership and team management

FUSION 360 (CAM)

Interpersonal and Communication

INTERNSHIP

ENGINEERING TRAINEE, JBM AUTO SYSTEM JUNE 2017

Sheet metal operations department - Body in White assembly line

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Lecturer at a technical workshop arranged by Fraternity of Mechanical & Automotive Engineers for formula student teams held at FMAE Moto Park, Hyderabad.

Cost judge at FFS India season 3 organized by Fraternity Of Mechanical & Automotive Engineers at Kari motor speedway, Coimbatore and FMAE Baja season 2 held at FMAE Moto Park, Hyderabad

ACHIEVEMENTS

Participated in several engineering design competitions

2nd position in Cost and Manufacturing event at Formula Bharat 2017 held at Kari motor speedway, Coimbatore

3rd position in Design Event at Formula Bharat 2019 held at Kari motor speedway, Coimbatore

LANGUAGES KNOWN

English (Full professional proficiency)

Hindi (Native proficiency)

Punjabi (Elementary proficiency)

French (Elementary proficiency)

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 3rd August 1997

Address: 302, Patny Villa Apartment, Patny Nagar, Rasoolpura, Secundrabad, 500003

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