civil engineer (structures)

VIDHI N.SHAH

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Arlington, TX 76010, USA E-mail: ******@*****.***

EDUCATION

Master’s in Civil Engineering, Specialization in Structural Engineering (AUG 2010-At present) from

University of Texas at Arlington

No of hours completed: 27

GPA: 3.4 / 4.0

Courses Taken

• Advanced concrete Design

• Prestressed Concrete Bridge Design

• Advanced Mechanics of material

• Prestressed Concrete

• Theory Of Structures

• Steel Design

• Finite Element Method

• Advanced Steel Design (pursuing)

• Foundation Analysis & Design (pursuing)

• Highway Design (pursuing)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Civil 2006-2009; Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India (http://www.msubaroda.ac.in)

GPA: 3.86 / 4.00.

Consistently ranked within top 2 during 4 years of Engineering college.

Relevant Courses:

Applied Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Theory of Structures, Structural Designing, Construction Planning & Management, Surveying & Leveling, Water & Waste Water Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Construction Tech., Geotechnical Engineering, Environmental Engineering

AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Gold Medal, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda for securing the highest aggregate marks in four years of college of Civil Engineering.

• Gold Medal, Institute of Engineers (India) for securing the highest marks in Civil Engineering in final degree examination for the year 2008-09 from M.S. University of Baroda.

• Led the IIT Kanpur Civil Engineering Summer Camp 2007; met with and awarded souvenir to then President of India Dr. APJ (Abdul) Kalam, Rashtrapati Bhavan (President’s House) New Delhi, India.

• Merit Scholarship for securing first rank in B.E. degree program 2nd year

WORK EXPERIENCE

Trainee Engineer (May-June 2007-2009), Zarna Associates, Vadodara, India

• Worked in structural design office, studied and evaluated key structural components example column, beam, slab, and more; visited construction sites during the training.

Worked as a Lecturer (Oct. 2009 – July 31st), Sigma Institute of Tech. & Engineering, Vadodara, India. (http://www.sigmainstitute.org)

• Taught Engineering Mechanics, Physics to first year students; Strength of Materials to second year students of Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering departments.

• Prepared class material including tutorials and test papers, helped students in making presentations.

Worked in university tutorial, as Tutor of Maths, Physics, Dynamics, Statics, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics for undergraduate students of University Of Texas, Arlington

INTERNSHIPS AND TRAINING

• Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Resistant Construction Technology (June 2009)

• Diploma in AutoCAD 2009 (Dec. 2008) Hyper Soft Technologies, Vadodara, India. (http://www.hyper-soft.com) Training in 2D designing, advanced commands, 3D modeling; total training duration 144 hours.

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay 2008 TechFest. (http://www.techfest.org) Attended a 3 day event at Bombay on latest engineering advances across all disciplines.

• Summer Camp 2007 @ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. (http://www.iitk.ac.in/summercamp)

The camp is hosted annually by IIT Kanpur and invites nation’s top Civil Engineering students.

I was the only candidate selected from my entire University to attend this prestigious, month-long, national level summer camp.

• Soft skills Workshop by Neilsoft, Vadodara, India. Aug. 2006. (http://www.neilsoft.com)

• Civil Engineering Department, University Of Texas At Arlington

Assisted faculty member on project based on “ COUPLING BEAM”.Did Research on modification of current design of COUPLING BEAM. Helped in doing strain gauging of bars, preparing formwork,testing specimen,calculating and preparing reinforcement for specimen.

Currently assisting faculty member on project “ Seismic Performance Of Partially Grouted Reinforced Masonary Walls”, using Risa 2-D,3-D , Sap 2000 for analysis.

PRESENTATIONS

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Civil Engineering 2007 Summer Camp. (http://www.iitk.ac.in/summercamp/) Presented paper on Kankaria Lake Front Development Project. The presentation included project details and design of the landmark project being implemented in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay 2008 TechFest. (http://www.techfest.org) Designed and presented hanger structure for airplanes during the Construct program.

• University Of Texas, Arlington (2010-2011)

Presented on Concrete Bridge Design, of Walt Disney monorail, Orlando

Presented on Current Problems of Coupling Beam

Presented on Design of Staggered Roof Truss Building using Risa 2-D & 3-D.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY AND SKILLS

Platform / OS:

General tools:Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7

Microsoft Office (incl. advanced Microsoft Excel), HTML

Engineering tools:AutoCAD 2009, 2010, 2011, RISA 2D & 3D, MATHCAD, SAP 2000, Google Sketch,P.G.Super,STAAD-Pro, Driven 1.2

REFERENCES

Dr. Shih-Ho Chao, Ph.D. Dr.Andreas Stavridis

Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering

University of Texas, Arlington University of Texas, Arlington

Dr.Yazdani, Ph.D

Professor in Structural Engineering

Department Chair Of Civil Engineering

University Of Texas, Arlington

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