PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A versatile professional seeking a challenging role in technology design & management and apply my experience of multidisciplinary engineering to provide excellent solutions.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

RESEARCH FELLOW, Design System Project Lead – Cranfield-BOEING IVHM Centre, Cranfield University, UK: FEB 2010 – CURRENT

Technology development responsibilities:

·  Undertake parametric design, analysis of low bypass turbofan engine serpentine nozzle and computational analysis of designed nozzle.

·  IVHM Design system –Generic end to end solution architecture for Integrated Vehicle Health Management. Use cases for Rolls Royce and BAE Systems were used for validations.

·  IVHM design for BAE System Warship integrated with Rolls Royce power plant.

·  Implementation and modification in design tools and methods, eg QFD, MADe, PICAM and SHOAM (IVHM tool set for BOEING)

·  IVHM functionality systems and system implementations for existing EHM tools like Total care for Rolls Royce.

Project Management responsibilities:

·  Project Management of aircraft advanced technologies. Prepare statement of cases, sanctions and financial concurrence for sponsored projects.

·  Plan, organize and carry out technical review of outsourced work. Ensure compatibility and security of data transfer of sensitive material.

·  Assist in preparation of task schedule for technology specific directorates. Organize regular weekly reviews of design teams.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT – National high temperature surface engineering centre – High temperature corrosion laboratory – Surface science and engineering centre - Department of Engineering Materials, Cranfield University, UK.: May 2009 – Jan 2010

• Accelerated Furnace Cyclic Testing (AFCT) & salt accelerated Oxidation testing for high temperature alloys used in hot sections of Aero-engines (Rolls Royce).
• Development of thermal barrier coating for space applications – Tribological analysis
• High Pressure Fatigue testing and analysis for stressed turbine discs and blading
• Development of Plasma-based coating deposition and surface treatment technologies
• Development of TBC for filtering unit of rocket motors
• Wear behaviour of high performance materials - High temperature degradation mechanisms

PROJECT ENGINEER – (MECHANICAL / AERONAUTICAL) - BHR Group –The Fluid Engineering Research Centre – Cranfield University, UK: SEP 2008 – MARCH 2009

·            Stress analysis of Aircraft Structures – Static stressing for turbo machinery bladin fuselage and wing structures. Roughness and impulse testing - Aircraft landing gears

·            Stress field analysis for aero structure, modelling of crack growth, crack arrest and fatigue

·            Safe Life Structural Design Criterion Analysis for structural failures which occurs in aircraft wings, propeller blades and engine discs

ISRO SATELLITE CENTRE (ISAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), BANGLORE,

INDIA – INTERNSHIP – JAN 2006- APRIL2006

·           Developing satellite technology and implementation of satellite systems for scientific, technological and application missions.

·         Inter-planetary space mission shifting – Mission modelling

LIQUID PROPULSION SYSTEMS CENTRE (LPSC), Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO, BANGALORE INDIA - INTERNSHIP -, OCT 2005- JAN 2006

·           Research was focussed on study of Earth Storable and Cryogenic propulsion, stages, associated control systems and components for Launch Vehicle and Spacecrafts.

·           Liquid propulsion risk assessment

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE:

PhD RESEARCHER – AEROENGINE NOVEL PROPULSION SYSTEM DESIGN & PERFORMANCE

DETERIORATION MODELLING – TECHNO ECONOMIC RISK ANALYSIS (TERA) DEPARTMENT OF PROPULSION, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY, Jan 2008 – PRESENT

·         Invention and generation of stochastic probabilistic distributions to predict aero propulsion performance characteristics

·         Analysis of the aero/thermal requirements for Gas Turbine components

·         Preliminary and final design studies for Turbo-machinery (Compressor & Turbines)

·         Design methodologies for greener efficient combustors

·         Development of Techno-economic risk assessment (TERA) framework to predict possible optimized technology selection

·         Analysis of the aero/thermal requirements for Aero-engines for predicting performance

·         Aircraft trajectory optimizations & multi-disciplinary design optimisations (Boeing)

·         Design, planning and implementation of new concepts for Aero-engines (Open rotor Detonators)

·         Worked closely with Rolls Royce, AIRBUS, P&W and few leading European universities

MSc – AEROSPACE MATERIALS, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, SEP 2006 – SEP 2007 (DISTINCTION)

·         Individual Research Project based on design, manufacturing and testing for unique concept Self healing composites for aerospace applications sponsored by AIRBUS.

·         Group design project focused on stress field modelling of material for Aero-engine Integration

·         Finite element analysis & modelling was extensively used for this research project. analysis was employed to look at the bulging and fatigue crack growth behaviour fuselage pressure bulkhead and wing structures (FEM, CATIA)

·         Research study was conducted to understand the impact of nanotechnology for detecting early initiation of cracks in advanced engineering materials.

BTech– AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY, INDIA,SEP 2002- Aug 2006 - (DISTINCTION)

·         Research thesis was focussed on developing novel Ion - Solar propulsion systems shifting space activities from one planet to other using Unmanned Space Vehicle.

·         Group design project - Estimation of contact conductance for nuclear fuel bundles in Reactor for Aviation Fuel. All the experimentations were carried on at Baba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.

·         Leakage characteristics, heat transfer operations and fluid interaction impacts were modelled and analysed. CFD modelling was used for heat flux flow patterning.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

•       Design Tools & Languages: MATLAB, C++, VB, CATIA, CFD, FEA

•       Proficiency in MS-Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), VBA