• This is a part time funded role that I got along with my offer of admission as a master's student at PSU. I worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• The job role included grading quizzes, weekly assignments, projects and exams along with hosting weekly office hours for the courses titled Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer.

• As a CEAS III (Certified Ergonomic Assessment Specialist), I have worked on performing Ergonomic risk assessments majorly for remote work employees.
• Working as the Corporate Services Manager, I am also responsible for business development and maintaining corporate relationships with clients.
• Other responsibilities include interaction with different vendors to help RECOUP sell Ergonomic and other Healthcare products.
• Have gained knowledge and experience in identification of risk factors in industrial, healthcare and office sectors, even through remote means, and suggest suitable solutions for the same.
• Member of Indian Ergonomics School, the Indian Affiliation of EPM International Ergonomics School
• Obtained life membership of Indian School of Ergonomics, and hence, the International Ergonomics Association

• Learnt about the different equipments used in mineral processsing plant such as crushers, screens, conveyors, pumps and cyclones and also understood how to read process flow diagrams and plan layouts.
• Member of the engineering automation and plant engineering teams
• My major work involved designing of scalable modular structures for different sizes of crushers and screens, and building interfaces for easy selection of requirements. This was to suit a global requirement, and the structure would change accordingly to the dimensional and safety standards of the selected region.
• Have worked on selection of centrifugal pump for slurry transportation and designing layout of a piping system within specified constraints.
• Worked on designing a user interface for automatic generation of a 3D assembled model and a general arrangement drawing of pump sets of different drive arrangements, as per requirements of Weir Minerals Europe.
• Attended numerous training courses in subjects including Lean Manufacturing, Value Engineering, Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing, innovation, additive manufacturing, welding, and many more
• Skills Acquired:
  NX CAD on NX11.0 and NX8.5, Teamcenter PDM, NX-Product Template Studio, NX Teamcenter-Variant Configurator, Agile and Scrum Methodology, JIRA, Pump-set assembly, scalable structure design

• Location: TIEI, Jigani, Bengaluru
• Detailed observation of different manufacturing processes done in CNC Machines
• Learnt the safety measures to be taken in the engine plant
• Identified problems and suggested solutions in the line
• Project reported on measures to reduce coolant leakages in the production line

• The objective of this project is to analyze the near-field radiative heat transfer around different semiconductor based light emitting diodes (LEDs) subject to an applied voltage using the formulation of fluctuation electrodynamics.
• MATLAB was used for modeling and analysis.
• Prior research on this has been carried out using numerous semiconductor materials, but the ones considered by me are the ones with a relatively larger bandgap, specifically Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Gallium Indium Nitride (GaInN), since these materials are gaining popularity in daily use.
• My advisor for this project is Dr. Linxiao Zhu, an assistant professor at Penn State's Mechanical engineering department who primarily researches in nanoscale energy and radiative heat transfer.

• As a part of the course requirements, in some of my courses at Penn State, I needed to do a project with a related topic either assigned by the professors directly in some cases or chosen by me. A report and a presentation are typically the requirements.
• In the Spring semester (Jan-May 2022), I had completed a project titled Simplifying the Integral Analysis of An External Laminar Convective Flow over a flat plate with an unheated Starting Length for arbitrary Velocity and Temperature Profiles in the course titled Heat Transfer - Convection.
• In another Spring sem course titled Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Problems, I executed a project on developing a solver for the 2D unsteady, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using collocated pressure-based finite-volume methods for classical lid-driven cavity problem in the unit square. This was implemented using the FVM techniques learnt in the class and was executed on MATLAB using the explicit Euler time-advancement method.
• Another spring term project that I executed was for a course titled Mechatronics. This was a fun team project where the goal was to build an autonomous robot that could navigate a maze from start to end, and that could detect and collect tennis balls on the way. This was implemented using an Arduino used with infrared and ultrasonic sensors, a USB camera for finding tennis balls, a readymade chassis that resembled a Tank which came with motors, a motor driver and a Raspberry Pi for image detection.
• In the Fall semester (Aug-Dec 2022), I had completed a project titled Using Finite Differencing to Solve a One-Dimensional Transient Heat Conduction Problem with no Steady State Solution in the course titled Heat Transfer - Conduction.

• Due to COVID-19, since majority of the users have begun working from home, it is necessary to have a correct workplace setup at home to avoid risk of work related musculoskeletal disorders.
• This is done by doing an Ergonomic Workplace Assessment for the users by analysing their workplace setups and how they interact with their systems. This analysis is followed by identification of risk factors and recommendations on how to deal with them. All these steps are documented as a detailed report and shared with the user.
• I have completed 300+ such ergonomic assessments of computer users.
• I have also completed an ergonomic walk-through of a food manufacturing plant remotely. This involved interviewing the supervisor to understand the work processes of different sections of the plant, analysing the work based on the images and videos provided, using ergonomic tools to assess the degree of risk exposure, providing recommendations and preparing technical documentation of the same.
• I have also completed a similar assessment twice for our client in the field of Semiconductor research; once for their offices and once for their laboratories.

• Majority of the projects were carried out on Siemens NX CAD software.
• Used expressions based modelling approach to make scalable structural models for different sizes of Cone Crusher Skids, Primary Crushing Station, and Inclined Screen Skids.
• Worked on 3D assembly and general arrangement drawing of pump-motor sets of different drive arrangements using Product Template Studio (PTS) tool of NX.
• Used PTS Author to build user interfaces to allow easy selection of product specifications for various products, at the end of which the model will be scaled/selected accordingly.
• Minor projects include material costing of Cone crusher skid, selection of centrifugal pump and designing a piping system layout

• The aim of the project was to analyse a three-fluid heat exchanger using Galerkin's finite element method in terms of effectiveness-number of transfer units plots.
• It was initially done for 4 different arrangements of 3-fluid cross-flow heat exchangers and the one showing the best results was considered for further investigation.
• The considered exchanger was then optimized for a given set of fluid parameters to determine the optimal dimensions for high effectiveness and low pressure drop. This was done using Genetic Algorithhm and using Particle Swarm Optimization. This has been published in a journal as follows- Jyothiprakash, K. H., Harshith, J., Sharan, A., Seetharamu, K. N., & Krishnegowda, Y. T. (2019). Thermodynamic Optimization of Three-Fluid Cross-Flow Heat Exchanger Using GA and PSO Heuristics. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 11, 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2019.04.009
• Further analysis was carried out for the heat exchanger by including other effects such as heat interaction with the surroundings and heat loss due to conduction in the seperating walls of the heat exchanger. I have presented this at a conference called THERMACOMP-2018, which was held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The abstract is on page 55 of the proceedings. Jyothiprakash, K. H., Sharan, A., Harshith, J., Krishna, V., Seetharamu, K. N., & Krishnegowda, Y. T. (2018). Combined effect of ambient heat-in-leak and longitudinal wall conduction on the performance of three-fluid cross-flow heat exchanger. In 5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems (pp. 55–58).
• The analysis was also carried out for two-phase flow.
• Skill and Experience Acquired: MATLAB, Finite Element Analysis
  The entire project was hard coded on MATLAB without the help of any commercially available analysis tool. It included converting the governing equations to stiffness matrices, simulating it to observe element wise temperature distribution, and generating the results for various conditions.

• It was observed in the Cylinder Head Machining Line that there was a good amount of coolant being leaked from the product while getting conveyed between CNC machines and while getting loaded to and unloaded from CNC machines.
• The aim of the project was to prepare a report to suggest suitable measures which can be adopted to reduce the amount of coolant being lost.
• Different engineering and administrative solutions were suggested to reduce coolant leakages in the production line by up to 25% per shift.

• This project was done as a part of the "Unified Engineering" Course conducted by JED-I (Joy of Engineering Design and Innovation).
• Each team was given a table tennis ball, and a basket of a fixed known height. The objective was to construct a model that would shoot the ball into the given basket, automatically. The horizontal distance from the basket to the shooter was variable and the shooter was expected to adjust either the speed or the angle of projection accordingly.
• The shooter was successfully constructed with the help of foam boards, an Arduino board, an ultrasonic sensor to measure the distance between the shooter and the basket, and a DC motor whose speed was a function of that distance.
• Skill and Experience Acquired: Arduino Programming

I built this website to build on my skills on front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I shall continue to regularly update it.

• Completed courses on Engineering Mathematics, Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer by conduction and convection, Numerical analysis using finite differencing and finite volumne methods for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, and Mechatronics and executed multiple projects for the same.

The official degree reads- "B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Thermo-Fluids Engineering and minors in Electronics and Communication Engineering."
Received a medal for securing a university rank of 6 in the entire branch.

• Electives under the thermo-fluids specialization: Turbomachines, I.C. Engines, Power-plant Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Jet and Rocket Propulsion, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
• Multiple courses in the design, manufacturing, aerospace and automobile domains, including some key subjects such as Mechanical Vibrations, Heat Transfer, Applied Thermodynamics, Design of Machine Elements, Fluid Mechanics and many more.
• Certificate course on Mechanical Vibrations Analysis using Computing Techniques on MATLAB
• B.Tech Minors in the field of Electronics and Communication after clearing the subjects that include Instrumentations, Analog and Digital Electronics, VLSI Design and Communications Engineering
• Hands on laboratory experience gained in various fields such as foundry and forging, machine shop, computer aided design, material testing, welding, engine test rig, heat transfer, microprocessors
• Software Skills: MATLAB, Solid Edge, ANSYS, CNC Programming

University of Michigan has some excellent courses which have helped me learn Python from the very basics and use it in various fields. I began my journey of learning python by taking up Dr. Charles Severence's beginner level specialization on Coursera named Python for Everybody consisting of five courses. As an add-on to explore the various applications of Python, I did three other specializations - Applied Data Science with Python by Dr. Christopher Brooks and co on Coursera, and Django for Everybody and PostgreSQL for Everybody by Dr. Charles on sites which he developed for the respective courses - dj4e.com and pg4e.com.

Skills Acquired: Python, pandas, numpy, data visualization, web scraping, machine learning, text mining, network analysis, basic SQL, web design, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django framework

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This wonderfully designed course by Andrew Ng had allowed me to combine and scale my basic knowledge of mathematics, statistics, Linear Algebra and vector calculus coupled with MATLAB programming. It has allowed me to learn the different aspects of Machine Learning, beginning from the definition, the classification, the algorithms, and product development. It was a fun experience attending these lectures and solving the challenging assignments. I scored an overall grade of 95.7%.

Algorithms covered: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks (Backpropagation), Support Vector Machines, K-Means Algorithm, Principal Component Analysis, Anomaly Detection and Recommender Systems.

I have successfully completed the course on "PRACTICE & MANAGEMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL ERGONOMICS CERTIFICATION" by The Back School which has certified me as a Certified Ergonomic Assessment Specialist (CEAS) III. Additionally, I had also taken up the first University level Ergonomics course in India named "Certificate Course in Workplace Ergonomics" by Sri Sri University.

As a soon-to-be EPMIES Certified Trainer, I am currently familiarising myself with some screening and assessment tools such as ErgoCheck premapping, OCRA, Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation etc.

• Took up Computer Science as the optional subject to enhance my programming skills in JAVA and C++. Built basic projects on Flight Reservation System and Hospital Management System
• Maintained a consistently good record in Mathematics and Chemistry
• Took Hindi and Kannada as my second and third languages respectively
• Participated in multiple competitive exams and olympiads
• Enhanced my skills in physics, chemistry, mathematics and logical reasoning by attending two-year FIITJEE Integrated Program