Design Engineering

Irfan Kerawalla

*** ****** *****, *** *, Arlington. Texas 76013. USA

682-***-****

mcenar@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

Applying for an electrical engineering intern position in the area of telecommunication where I can use my technical knowledge to gain work experience in a professional engineering environment.

EDUCATION:

Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering (3.14 GPA) (August 2012)

The University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics Engineering (August 2006 – June 2010)

University of Mumbai, India

COMPLETED PROJECTS:

• SDRAM controller design (July 2011)

Design of an SDRAM controller that allows SDRAM memory to be interfaced with a microprocessor.

• Implementation of DVB-SH system (April 2011)

Involved the study and working of a Digital Video Broadcast Satellite to hand held devices (DVB-SH) system for transfer of high quality multimedia content to mobile devices, running test streams and suggesting further room for improvement and research.

• Wireshark (April 2011)

Analyzing protocols and studying the operation of the interface between a computer and the internet. Live capture and interactive browsing of traffic running on a computer network.

• System Level Design for a Mobile Wireless User Terminal. (December 2010)

System level design for a mobile wireless user terminal using block phase estimation algorithm. Designing a simulation reference system for GPDCH subject to Rician flat fading using MATLAB and design a demodulator for the fading channel with QPSK modulation

• Design of a Digital Communication System (December 2010)

Design of a physical layer simulation reference system for a digital communication system used in wireless local area network (WLAN)

• Wireless Robot (April 2010)

Successfully completed a fully functional prototype of a wireless controlled robot to detect and defuse hazardous material and save human lives. The robot featured voice controls whose code was developed in visual basic.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Programming Languages: C, C++, HTML, Assembly level programming language.

Software’s: VHDL, LABVIEW, EAGLES PCB SOFTWARE, EXPRESS PCB,

MS OFFICE, PSPICE, MATLAB.

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Worked on developing the receiver circuit for a combined wireless neural stimulating and recording system for study of pain processing in the lab of Dr.Jung-Chih Chiao at UTA.

RELATED COURSEWORK:

Wireless Communication: Fundamental principles of radio system design and propagation. Basics of cellular systems, GSM environment, 3G/4G networks, propagation models, traffic models and spectral capacity. Multiple-access techniques including FDMA, TDMA, CDMA. Analog and digital modulation techniques and problems with RF (radio frequency) interference. Performance analysis of cellular systems with multipath propagation, diversity, equalization, smart antennas. Micro- and pico-cell design. Allocation of channels, hard and soft handoffs. Data transmission on mobile networks. MIMO, space time communication, turbo codes, Ultra wide band (UWB), sensor networks, Wi-Fi, Wimax, WCDMA.

Data Communications Engineering: Queuing theory. TCP/IP. Internet structure, Internet protocol models and engineering. Physical layer description will include modulation, FEC (forward error correction), cyclic and Trellis coding. MAC layer modeling will include CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection), ALOHAS, and other splitting algorithms. Network performance analysis, link and upper layer. Internet and ATM protocols, Internet routing and traffic management, ATM switch design and ATM traffic management. IPv4, IPv6, Voice over internet protocol (VOIP).

Digital Communication: Fundamental principles underlying the transmission of digital data over noisy channels. Basics of source coding techniques including entropy coding, Lempel-Ziv. Channel capacity. Spectral analysis of digital modulation techniques. Optimum receiver design and error probability performance of commonly used modulation schemes. Applications to lightwave and wireless systems.

Embedded Microcontroller and Microprocessor Systems: Hardware/software development techniques for microprocessors and their programmable peripherals, with emphasis on multi-byte width memory design, throughput issues including DMA controller design, co-processor operation, interrupt-driven I/O, oscillators and timer peripherals and code efficiency issues. Study of 33FJ128MC802 microcontroller built-in devices including timers, PWM, interrupts, GPIO ports, and A/D converters. Interfacing with SPI, serial, and CAN buses and real time control applications.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

• Member of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).

• Participated in Robo Wars and Robo Race Competitions in RAYS 2010 organized by Rizvi College of Engineering, Mumbai.

• Volunteer in organizing events at The University of Texas at Arlington.

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