Metallurgical / Materials Process Engineer

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Adept and experienced in a variety of mechanical testing and failure analyses methods and familiarity with NIST testing standards and ASTM standards for materials.

• Proficient in computational modeling, technical computing and analytical capabilities.

• Experienced in Finite Element Analysis.

• Familiarity with the concepts of Design and Calibration of Experiments, Statistical Process Control and Optimization Study.

SKILLS

1. Mechanical Testing and Failure Analysis

• Skilled in versatile mechanical testing methods like tensile and compression testing using universal testing machine, INSTRON and MTS, hardness testing, drop-weight impact testing,

charpy v-notch impact test, fatigue testing, torsion testing and creep testing.

• Knowledgeable in characterization techniques like SEM, AFM, UV-Vis, FTIR, and XRD as well as non-destructive testing.

2. Practiced in welding, blacksmithy and carpentry.

3. Experience with autoclave curing and vacuum bagging manufacturing processes of composite materials.

Computer Skills

Platform: Windows, Macintosh

Tools:

• MATHEMATICA, MATLAB, C (Technical Computing Software)

• AutoCAD, CATIA v5 and Pro/Engineer (CAD/CAM Software)

• ANSYS, ABAQUS (Finite Element Analysis Software)

• LabVIEW (Data Acquisition and Test Automation Software)

• MINITAB (Statistics Package)

• MS-Office

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant (August 2011-Present)

Tailored Composites and Smart Structures Lab, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington

Research Topic: Tailored Yield-Type Tensile Structural Response with Autonomous Healing: Proof of Concept, and Parametric Study of Material Performance.

• Current research involves the exprimental validation of a previously proposed autonomous healing concept, and a parametric study to investigate the upper bounds of the performance of the concept.

Graduate Research Assistant (August 2010-May 2011)

Tailored Composites and Smart Structures Lab, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington

Thesis: Extension of a Progressive Failure, Energy Dissipation, Composite Tailoring Concept to a Healing Configuration.

• Developed and validated an analytical model to demonstrate the extension of a tailoring concept to progressively failing energy-dissipating composite members that exhibit a yield-type response under tension and conceptualised an autonomously healing configuration.

Production Engineer (June 2008-June 2009)

Continuous Caster, Steel Melting Shop, Essar Steel Ltd., India

• Actively contributed towards improving the productivity and efficiency of the casting process by controlling and optimising the casting parameters to achieve minimum turnaround time between casting cycles, and by devising and implementing an efficient working method for slag control in the mould.

Summer Intern (May 2007-June 2007)

Mechanical Metallurgy Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India

Research Project: Analysis of Dynamic Strain-Ageing of INCONEL 718 and Data Analyses of Compression Testing of INCONEL 718 at elevated temperatures using MATLAB (v7.0).

• Conducted tensile and compression tests of dynamic strain-aged INCONEL 718 and analysed the yield points of the samples using MATLAB.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Student - Aerospace Engineering (August 2011 - Present)

University of Texas at Arlington

Master of Science (M.S.) - Materials Science and Engineering (August 2011)

University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) – Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (2008)

National Institute of Technology (N.I.T), Rourkela, India

HONORS

• STEM Scholarship, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington – 2011

• Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington – 2010

• Materials Science and Engineering Departmental Scholarship, University of Texas at Arlington – 2010

AFFILIATIONS

• AIAA (Member)

• ASM (Member)

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