Engineering Engineer

Maneesh Merwade

Apt *, *** St Stephen Street Phone: 973-***-**** Boston, MA 02115 Email::**********@*****.*** ________________________________________

Objective: To obtain a scientific role in an industry where I can implement and execute my skills in the field of chemical engineering.

Education: Master of Science in Chemical Engineering. GPA 3.06/4.00

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark NJ. Graduation: January 2010

Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering

M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. Graduation: June 2007

Key Courses: Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Transport Phenomena, Mass Transfer, Nanomaterials, Chemical Equipment Design, Chemical Reaction Engineering.

Research Experience: New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates, NJIT Oct 2008 – Jan 2010

• Master’s Thesis: “Size Reduction of Drugs by Wet-Milling”. Process set-up and optimization of milling parameters for micronization of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s). Characterization of milled suspensions by determining particle size distribution using Light Scattering, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images and Zeta potential. Determination of form of API’s by Differential Scanning Calorimetery and X-ray Diffraction. The project was funded by Engineering Research Center (ERC)-National Science Foundation (NSF) Key Accomplishments: Prepared stable drug suspensions in presence of polymers and surfactant for oral drug delivery.

• Research Project, Indian Institute of Science, India Jan 2007-May 2007

“Thermal Management of Electronics using Phase Change Materials”: Performed simulations by developing a mathematical model for thermal storage units and carried out experiments to determine an effective thermal storage unit which was subjected to heat loads. Fabricated thermal conductivity enhancers for the above experiments (Pin & Plate type) and compared their efficiencies.

Work Experience: June 2007- May 2008

• Quality Engineer, Met-Chem Laboratories, India

1. Perform standard qualitative and quantitative analysis as per Indian and International Standards.

a) Water analysis for potability as per IS: 10500, Industrial effluents as per IS: 3025.

b) Analysis of Minerals like Iron ore, Manganese ore, Lime stone, Dolomite etc as per IS standards. By both wet chemical methods and instrumental methods.

c) Analysis of Metals conducted by Optical Spectrometry (Spectromaxx F – Germany) mainly Low Alloy Steels (LAS), SS metals, HSS steel & Aluminum alloys and checked for compliance with IS/BS/ASTM/DIN Standards specification.

2. Assist with troubleshooting analytical methodology and instrumentation malfunctions, and validation of testing methods.

3. Revise and prepare Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Maintain records of all analysis information as per NABL & ISO norms on data sheets.

4. Responsible for maintaining and continuously improving the quality system and achieving quality objectives through daily actions.

• Internship at Wockhardt Research Centre, Aurangabad, India June 2008 – July 2008

Estimation of residual impurities in pharmaceutical processes using chromatographic techniques such as Gas Chromatography, High Pressured Liquid Chromatography.

Presentation & Publications:

• Novel Aspects of Production of Microsuspensions and Nanosuspensions of Poorly Water Soluble Drugs by Wet Media Milling by Anagha Bhakay, Maneesh Merwade, Fola Afolabi . AIChe 2010. http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2010/webprogrampreliminary/Paper190082.html (To be presented)

• “Phase Change Materials – An Overview” by Maneesh Merwade, Vishal K. Singh, Arun Ramadass, Nuggehalli M Ravindra, TMS Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington February 2010 . http://www.programmaster.org/PM/PM.nsf/ApprovedAbstracts/C48463EF97BAA6E685257604007DB9C9?OpenDocument..

• Presented a poster on “Preparation of ultrafine drug particles by Wet-milling” at ISPE New Jersey Chapter Poster Presentation competition held at NJIT in April 2009.

Professional Affiliations:

• Member International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, New Jersey Chapter.

Skills: MS Office, C Programming, HYSYS, Polymath, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Minitab, Gambit, Fluent,

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), X-Ray Diffraction

(XRD), Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR ,FTIR), Chromatography (HPLC,GC)

References: Available upon request

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