• Worked as a Project Engineer for one year at ASML, Charlotte, USA.
• One year of experience as a Design Engineer at Control Tech Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India.
• Completed Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Design and Finite Element Analysis from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Certified in HyperWorks and Ansys Workbench. Proficient in software like Catia, Solidworks, Abaqus, Matlab, Creo, NX Unigraphics.
• Successfully completed the Senior Design project which focused on Vibration, Modal Analysis, Harmonic Response Analysis, and PID controller.
• Portfolio - https://vinitjagdale.wixsite.com/portfolio
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Experience
• Worked on a project with the ASML. The goal of this project was to reduce the vibration of a flexible structure to 20% of the undamped value at a lower mode in the order of 10 Hz.
• We Set up a piezoelectric sensor and actuator to sense and damp the amplitude of vibration respectively.
• My primary role was to conceptualize, design and analyze the flexible mechanical structure to which the damping piezoelectric patches would be applied.
• Performed hand calculations and iterated between more than 15 CAD designs (SolidWorks) and Modal Analysis (Ansys) to arrive at the final design.
• Performed Harmonic Response Analysis using Ansys to estimate vibration amplitude at the resonant frequency.
• The project has successfully met and exceeded the 5 times amplitude reduction goal (presently achieving 10 times reduction).
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Projects
Conductive and Convective Heat Transfer & Thermal Flux Analysis of Composite Cylindrical Pressure Vessel by Finite Difference Method. (MATLAB) Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
• Conducted Transient Thermal and Flux Analysis on the composite cylindrical pressure vessel made of two materials using MATLAB.
• Utilized computational method for the analysis of the heat flux in the cylinder.
• The temperature variation along the radius and height as the time proceeds was analyzed by the discretization.
• Achieved 100% accuracy and consistency in accuracy for the MATLAB code.
Design and Optimization of Crash Box for energy absorption Capacity (Hypermesh) Aug 2015 - May 2016
• The project was used for enhancing the efficiency of a crash box to absorb 20% more energy in an accident to reduce the damage taken by the chassis.
• Performed theoretical, practical and numerical methods on a simple crash box to validate the results of the numerical method to almost 100% accuracy.
• Developed model in Hypermesh to perform crash analysis on 16 modified designs of the crash box.
• Topography optimization was used to select the best design out of 16 proposed designs.
• Increased energy absorption capacity of plane crash box by 42% while maintaining the material cost.
Designing and Analyzing Steering Knuckle for an ATV (Catia V5 | Ansys) Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
• Designed a steering Knuckle using Catia V5 which connects suspension and steering components to wheel.
• Analyzed knuckle using Ansys against stress generated during operating condition and successfully optimized Factor of Safety to 3.5.
• CAD designs were iterated to optimize shape which eventually reduced the overall cost of the project.