Electrical Engineering Renewable Energy

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE, Philadelphia, PA 2025 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering: GPA: 3.46 Relevant Courses: Energy Engineering in Power Plants and Transportation Systems, Power Electronics, Renewable Energy and Its Impacts, IoT Edge Computing, Risk Analysis and Environment Management. RASTRASANT TUKDOJI MAHARJ NAGPUR UNIVERSITY, Nagpur, MH, India 2022 Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering: GPA: 3.9 EXPERIENCE

Student Office Desk Assistant, University of Pennsylvania PHL, USA JAN 2025 -Present

• Provided frontline support by greeting visitors, managing phone inquiries, and scheduling appointments for academic advisors.

• Assisted students by directing them to the appropriate departments, ensuring smooth navigation of academic services.

• Oversaw Penn Engineering’s storage management, inventory tracking, and package handling. Auxiliary Reader PHL, USA SEPT 2024-NOV 2024

• Reviewed and summarized 250+ applications for the vet school.

• Ensuring accurate and concise evaluations for the admissions committee.

• Evaluated applicant's academic performance, veterinary experience, personal statements, and recommendations. Internship and Vacation Training, Koradi Power Plant NGP, India JAN 2022 - JUNE 2022

• Created boiler efficiency reports detailing fuel consumption, thermal losses, and heat rate calculations.

• Used SCADA systems to monitor plant operations and diagnose control loop issues such as sensor drift and unstable feedback, resolving over 15 faults to improve system reliability.

• Assisted in transformer maintenance, and switchgear inspections, gaining hands-on experience with power distribution systems up to 250 MVA.

• Worked with 5+ engineers and technicians, assisting in root-cause analysis of power system faults, reducing response time to critical issues by 20%.

• Reviewed voltage regulation data and assisted in transformer inspections, gaining practical knowledge of grid integration and power distribution.

• Analysed over 1,000 hours of operational data on load demand, voltage fluctuations, and power factor using Excel and plant monitoring tools, identifying efficiency trends and reporting insights to senior engineers. PROJECTS

CO-AWAY University of Pennsylvania JAN 2025- Present

• Creating a Carbon monoxide detector that helps improve the air quality of a room with a smart exhaust system on a SAM W-25.

• Created component footprint for the MiCS5524 sensor and designed electrical schematics and PCB layouts in four layers using Altium Designer.

• Developed I2C library for OLED Display.

• Implemented PWM control for the exhaust fan, to optimize the air quality based on the CO level while improving energy efficiency.

• Integrated cloud connectivity using the WINC1500 Wi-Fi module and configured data transmission over Node-RED.

• Designed a cloud-shaped PCB using SolidWorks and 3D printed the system enclosure using SolidWorks CAD design. SOLE DRY- AUTOMATIC SHOE DRYING BOX University of Pennsylvania AUG 2024- DEC 2024

• Designed a smart shoe dryer system based on an ATmega328pb microcontroller.

• Developed I2C library for the HDC3020 (temperature and humidity sensor) and NAU7802 (load sensor ADC) in embedded C.

• Reverse-engineered I2C communication scheme for NAU7820 load sensor.

• Formulated software and hardware requirements for the project, while managing the power distribution throughout the system, assisted in physically assembling the enclosure.

WASTE TO ENERGY CONVERSION POWER PLANT University of Pennsylvania

AUG 2023- DEC 2023

• Completed a Waste to Energy Conversion simulation in MATLAB focused on enhancing plant efficiency via wet torrefaction.

• Achieved a plant energy efficiency of 30%, comparable to typical coal-fired power plants.

• Manipulated key variables such as torrefaction methods, product heating value, and fuel/working fluid mass flow rates.

• Successfully adhered to constraints of delivering 32MW of electricity and utilizing 1.4 million tons of MSW annually.

• Identified an optimal design with a fuel/working fluid mass flow rate ratio of 1, a dryer fuel mass flow rate of 0.316 kg/s, and a hydrochar heating value of 7800 kJ/kg, resulting in a plant efficiency of 0.4684. MITIGATION OF HARMONICS IN POWER SYSTEM (CAPSTONE PROJECT) RTMNU OCT 2021-JUN 2022

• Led a team of 4 and developed a filter to mitigate power system harmonics, tailored for small-scale users for harmonics management.

• Reduced THD by 5% by adding passive filters, single-tuned at the 11th and 13th harmonics.

• Designed and implemented a passive filter, targeting the harmonics for Three-Phase 12-pulse AC-DC Converter in Simulink MATLAB.

• Engineered the harmonic filter to reduce electric bills by 5%, improve PF to >0.95 SKILLS

Software/Design: MATLAB, LabVIEW, Simulink, C, LT-spice, Altium Designer, AutoCAD, SolidWorks Protocols: I2C, UART, SPI, USB

Languages: English (Proficient), Japanese (level N4) CERTIFICATIONS

Engineer-in-Training (EIT) - In Progress

AutoCAD Electrical - Advanced Training

AWARDS/ PARTICIPATION

• Secured the 3rd prize in inter-college project competition for capstone project. 2022

• IIT TIRUPATI nanotechnology workshop 2021

• IIT BHUMANESHWAR Led a team of 3 on a workshop on wireless communication technology for a mobile vehicle 2019 KOMALIKA GAIKWAD

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