Metallurgist

Joydeep Pal

**** ******* **, *** # ***, Las Vegas, NV 89119 • Tel: 702-***-**** • Email: *******.***@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a challenging position in the field of materials science where I can apply my strong metallurgical engineering background and interpersonal skills.

PROFILE

• Five years of hands-on experience in high-temperature tensile, creep and fatigue/fracture testing, heat treatment, corrosion testing involving both general and stress-corrosion-cracking (SCC), microscopic characterization and failure analysis.

• Three years of experience in production management in Philips India Limited, India.

• Strong background of managing research activities, inventory control, communicating with group members, scheduling and coordinating experimental activities.

• Extensive experience in preparing concise technical reports and publishing in renowned journals.

• Technically skilled and results-focused professional recognized for the ability to adapt and implement technological changes.

• Decision making, analytical and problem solving skills including root cause analysis of operational problems.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of Nevada, Las Vegas January 2005 to date

Graduate Research Assistant

• Performed extensive mechanical testing (tensile, impact and fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth studies, creep, stress rupture and hardness measurements) on different types of materials (stainless steels and nickel-base superalloys).

• Evaluated susceptibility of materials to stress-corrosion-cracking (SCC) and studied the behavior of materials to localized and general corrosion.

• Analyzed microstructures and estimated grain sizes by optical microscopy.

• Performed failure analysis by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and x-ray diffraction (XRD).

• Developed structure-property relationships by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Philips India Limited December 2000 – November 2003

Production Executive

• Managed an entire shift of six production lines.

• Implemented automation practices to reduce production time.

• Prepared cost estimates and proposals under tight time constraints, successfully completing all projects on time.

• Initiated and executed projects to minimize production waste and mechanical downtime and improve quality.

• Implemented total productive management (TPM) practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performing detailed mechanical testing (tensile, creep, stress rupture, fatigue, fracture and impact toughness) at ambient and elevated temperatures.

• Conducting corrosion susceptibility tests (electrochemical, slow-strain-rate, constant-load, constant-displacement and weight-loss) in aggressive environments.

• Performing microstructural evaluation (by optical microscopy, SEM and TEM) of materials to develop a structure-property relationship.

• Preparing technical reports, conference papers and journal manuscripts based on experimental data.

• Developing specimen drawings by AutoCAD, maintaining inventory controls for lab and experimental supplies.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, Las Vegas

PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Major: Materials Science) December 2009

GPA: 3.9/4.0

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, Las Vegas

M.S., Mechanical Engineering (Major: Materials Science) December 2006

GPA: 3.8/4.0

JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, India

B.E., Mechanical Engineering June 2000

MEMBERSHIP and AFFILIATION

• Chair, Material Advantage – UNLV Student Chapter.

• Member, TMS, ASM, AIST and AcerS.

• Member, American Nuclear Society (ANS), UNLV Student Chapter.

AWARDS and ACHIEVEMENTS

Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Honor Society of Tau Beta Pi

Received GREAT (Graduate Research Training) Assistantship from the graduate college of UNLV for outstanding research work.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

“Temperature and load ratio effects on crack-growth behavior of austenitic superalloys,” Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 132(1), January 2010.

“Creep deformation of alloys 617 and 276 at 750-950°C,” Materials Science and Engineering A, Elsevier Science, Vol. 520(1-2), September 2009, pp. 184-188.

“Tensile deformation of a nickel-base superalloy for application in hydrogen generation,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier Science, Vol. 33(3), February 2008, pp. 945-952.

“Dynamic strain ageing of an austenitic superalloy – temperature and strain rate effects,” Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 474(1-2), February 2008, pp. 363-370.

Conference Papers

“Crack growth behavior of alloy 276 as functions of temperature and load ratio,” TMS 2009, San Francisco, CA, February 2009.

“Time and temperature-dependent deformation of alloy 617,” TMS 2009, San Francisco, CA, February 2009.

“Cracking of alloy 276 in an acidic environment,” ASME-PVP, PVP2007-26429, San Antonio, TX, July 2007.

“Tensile properties and stress corrosion crack growth studies of alloy C-276,” AMPT, Las Vegas, NV, July-August 2006.

“High-temperature tensile properties of nickel-base alloys for hydrogen generation,” SAMPE, Long Beach, CA, April-May 2006.

RELEVANT COURSES

Physical Metallurgy Mechanical Metallurgy

Fracture of Engineering Materials Corrosion Science and Engineering

Diffusion in Metals Principles of Electron Microscopy

Energy Methods in Mechanics

EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS

• Mechanical Properties of Materials: Tensile, Creep, Stress rupture, Fatigue, Fracture and Impact toughness, Hardness.

• Corrosion Susceptibility Techniques: SCC (Constant-load, Constant-displacement, slow-strain-rate), Electrochemical (Cyclic potentiodynamic polarization), weight-loss.

• Microscopic Characterization: Optical, SEM/EDS, TEM.

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Office, MATLAB, AutoCAD, Hypermesh.

References Available Upon Request

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