Mechanical Engineer

UTSAV SHAH

Cell: 201-***-****

E-Mail: ***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Dynamic and highly driven mechanical engineer looking for a position in a well-established company. Equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities in areas pertaining to CAD/CAM, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances (GD&T), Root Cause Analysis, and Product Reliability. Creative problem-solving skills, good interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate effectively.

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS:

• In-depth knowledge of mechanical engineering based design, Heat Transfer, Control System, manufacturing processes.

• Familiar with linear feedback control systems, analysis of linear continuous and discrete time linear systems, Kalman Filtering, Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) regulators.

• Enthusiastic and ability to work under pressure

• Possess excellent presentation and organizational skills, attention to detail.

• Ability to design fluid mechanics and machine elements

• Possess good knowledge of mechanical vibrations and thermodynamics

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills

• In-depth knowledge of material handling systems, racking and conveyors

• Thorough knowledge of current design and manufacturing practices and a clear vision to accomplish the company goals

• Computer and internet literate

EDUCATION

Masters of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, December 2010.

GPA: 3.467; Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.

Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, July 2007.

G. H. Patel College of Engineering and Technology, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Assistant at Micro-Scale Robotics and Automation Lab (MSRAL)

Stevens Institute of Technology. [August 2009-December 2010]

On MSRAL’s Meso- , Micro- and Nano- scale Manipulation Test-Bed I was tasked with the responsibility to determine the precise motion of micro-scale parts using the 4 micromanipulators on the test-bed. The manipulators were computer controlled due to high precision needed in motion of micro-scale parts. Custom image processing and control software was used to interface the hardware components of platform with a quasi-static dynamic simulator along with path planning algorithms to simulate and execute various tasks.

I did Research Paper on "Caging Micromanipulation for Automated Micro assembly" under the guidance of Prof. David J. Cappellieri which has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA) 2011, Shanghai, China. I was responsible for the path planning for the motion of objects and their precise movements.

Click Here for Link to Paper.

I created and optimized the new design for an oscillating fan required to improve the design using SolidWorks 2010 as well as Pro/E Wildfire 4.0 and simultaneously reduce the cost for a group project on Oscillating Fan Redesign.

In a project for increasing the overall reliability of a microwave oven I performed the calculation for individual component's reliability which was crucial in determining overall reliability as well as where the reliability can be improved.

Another project on moving alarm clock using PIC microcontroller I was given the responsibility to program the PIC microcontroller using MPLAB IDE programmer to perform the designated tasks which was crucial in making the alarm clock move successfully.

Rockwell Automation’s ARENA was used for another one on Operation of Automated Baggage Handling System in an airport where I performed the test runs for finding out resource allocation which helped the team in finding the bottleneck situations at particular locations.

SKILLS

Computer Skills

Software: Pro-Engineer Wildfire 3.0/4.0; SolidWorks/Cosmos 2008/2009/2010; AutoCAD 2010; Rockwell Simulation's Arena; Matlab/Simulink; LabView, C - Programming Language; C++ Basics; Windows XP/Vista/7; MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint; MS Project; MS Visio.

Lab Skills: Machinery, Technical Drawing, Multimeter, Oscilloscope.

Hardware: PC Based Systems

RELATED COURSEWORK

Computer Integrated Design & Manufacturing, Design of Production System, Simulation & Modeling, Design for Manufacturability, Modern Control Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Optimal Control & Estimation of Dynamical System, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics.

WORKSHOPS

Attended a seminar on Non-Destructive Testing (NDT).

Participated in a roboTRIX workshop conducted by The Robotics Institute (TRI) at Ingenium 06 at N.I.T. Ahmedabad where fundamentals on basic robot motions was instructed and performed by us on a model.

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