Design Engineer

KRUSHIT SHAH

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Lilburn, Georgia 30047 ***********@*******.***

Phone: 770-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a full time position in the Mechanical Design Engineering field where problem solving, analytical

Techniques and communication skills, along with knowledge of design, Structural, Thermal & Manufacturing

Engineering will be utilized to improve the productivity and profitability of an organization.

EDUCATION

• M.E. in Mechanical Engineering Graduation date - April 2012

The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas GPA – 3.33/4.0

• B.E. in Mechanical Engineering Graduation date - June 2009

Gujarat University, India GPA – 3.87/4.0

RELEVANT COURSES

Finite Element Method, Structural Aspect of Design, Fundamentals of Electronics Packaging, Gas Dynamics,

Advanced Finite Element Method, Convection Heat Transfer. Fundamental of Composite, Control system component.

SUMMARY

• Design & FEA (static, thermal, CFD) of different complex Mechanical parts with help of different software.

• Experienced of Design, Erection & testing of Excavator.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Design Software: AutoCAD, Pro-E, Ansys, Ice-Pack, SolidWork,CATIA, SAP, Matlab, Mathematica.

• Windows VISTA / XP / 2000/ 2007, Macintosh.

• Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat 7.0.

• Able to adapt any new methodology quickly.

• Communicate verbally and in writing, problems solve, supervise, and organize by using effective time management skills.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

SKAPS Industries,Athens,GA. May 2012-till Present

Mechanical Engineer.

• Designed and performed corrective and preventative maintenance on equipments, systems and structures at customer site. Coordinated overall activities of production departments in processing materials and manufacturing products.

• Developed automated manufacturing processes to improve manufacturing throughput and quality.

• Reviewed all specifications and procedures for new products; worked closely with the team throughout the production process from concept to prototype in order to ensure maximum production efficiency.

• Evaluated maintenance records of mechanical equipment on a regular basis and ensured that equipments were effectively.

• Prepared an estimate of cost and repair of various equipments and systems of facility & Documented all repair and maintenance work performed on equipments.

• Design Non-Woven Machine like cross lapper, Needle Punch-Tracker, loom, calander and winder and sheet drawing in software use SolidWorks.

• Detail Knowledge about ANSI and BS standards. According to standard place order.

• Devised and evaluated concepts for design approaches: criteria, parameters, characteristics and interrelationships

• Investigated problems in manufacturing processes and provided solutions

• Developed annual capital and operating budget for Mechanical maintenance.

TecSo Technology Solution, Gujarat, India. May 2009- Jan 2010

Design Engineer (R&D section)

• Being member of TecSo Technology, Create solid model for different parts of “Excavator” like boom, bucket, stick etc. by using PRO-E design tool.

• Preparing parts & assemblies, drafting, drawing sheets, technical instructions, documents, memos to production department, create and update manufacturing work.

• From the component modeling/drawing, generate fabrication drawing with reference to the fabrication process with required dimension tolerance & surface finish data wherever necessary. Bill of material derived from the CAD assembly

• Design and development of press tools, jigs and fixture, dies and punches, die design for cast, forged and sheet metal components.

• Conversion of existing product into 3D parametric model ready for making some modification or Finite Element Analysis, Stress analysis, etc or into 2D detailed drawing for the manufacturing process.

• Estimation of stress, strain, deflection under the influence of various kinds of loading using linear/non-linear analysis techniques Calculation of FOS. Identification of critical stress paths and stress linearization to evaluate sectional stress Fatigue life evaluation and buckling load factor calculation.

• Estimation of temperature distribution, heat flux, heat flow, etc. in steady and transient condition under the influence of heat transfer by conduction and convection & calculated the behavior of the product assembly under the harmonic conditions at a certain exciting frequency with help of ANSYS 10.0.

Intern Sep 2008 – March 2009

Hyper Soft Technology, India

• Responsible for complete digging mechanism product design in Cad (Pro-E 3.0) including tolerance studies, packaging studies, fits, tool clearance and manufacturability with engineering deliverables, including product design, drawings and checking, product specification, analysis and design objectives / program timing.

• Perform root cause analysis, design guidelines, best practices, past program lessons learned, competitive product benchmarking information.

• Ensure that prototype samples meet appearance and functional performance standards and ensure completion of appropriate product validation testing.

• Perform studies to benchmark and evaluate competing design proposals. Design concepts and perform vehicle package studies using Pro-E CAD software.

• Analysis based on stress, thermal and displacement for 8 tone mini Backhoe Loader using ANSYS.

• Create animation and trajectory path for the Excavator using Pro-Mechanism and Simulate digging trajectory for backhoe loader based on Pro-Mechanica.

• Create drawings and apply GD&T, Critical and Significant Characteristics.

• Generate BOM's, maintain open issues lists, and typical engineering documents.

• Perform engineering calculations for mass, strength and performance.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Design, Analysis and Optimization of Truss Frame and SAE Formula Car Chassis: UT Arlington

• Design 9 bar,25 bar truss frame and SAE Formula Car chassis based on ANSYS APDL and Workbench

• Analysis based on stress, structural and displacement for each node of the frame.

• Optimize the cost reduction techniques with design optimization tool using ANSYS APDL 12.0.

• Optimize the volume using ‘Goal Driven Optimization’ based on ANSYS workbench.

• Calculate and declare the Design variable, state variable and objective for frame and select the upper and lower limit for each variable.

• Compare results with both APDL and Workbench.

• Increase the torsional stiffness and optimize the volume for SAE formula car.

3D Drafting of Drill Press vice Assembly & FEA

• Drill Press Parts design using solidworks2008, solid modeling, drafting & assembly tools.

• Performing stress, static, thermal & drop test analysis for different parts & whole assembly with the help of ANSYS.

Analyzed Thermal Management System For Laptop Processor

• Performed the analysis of the heat transfer in Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processors by using a Remote Heat Exchanger with the help of using Fluent Icepack.

• Junction temperature set to 100 C for processor & Effective thermal conductivity for heat pipe was calculated by help of Liquid-saturated weak structure.

Analysis of Bicycle Crank and Simulation

• Designed Bicycle crank using software CATIA.

• Obtained deflection and stress distribution in the crank/pedal shaft with various meshing using ANSYS (APDL).

Heat Sink Model

• The heat sink model for Intel® IXP2800 Network Processor has been correlated using Icepack(ANSYS) software with the help of fan & fins to developing system-level thermal solutions & compare the data with theoretical thermal analysis.

16 MW High Dense Data Center Cooling System Design:

• Design a cooling and dehumidification system for a 16MW, % floor occupation has been given, for the most extreme monthly conditions that might exist in Arlington, TX.

• Design cooling load is define based on the server power (16MW), lighting heat & wall conduction, outside air temperature. Maximum Return air used is 80%.

• Design best economical system by mixing right amount outside air & return air (air side economizing) to reduce cost of operating system. System component chiller & fan selected.

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