1) Caterpillar Inc. (Electrical Engineer 3, Agency: Aditi Consulting) - July 2023 to present
Activities/Responsibilities:
. Electronic system design for a portable tester to test rotary position sensors
. Preparing Hardware Requirement Specifications and initial research for AOS project
. Noise characterization and data analysis of Inertial Measurement Units for a NPI project
. Supplier interaction, planning and revival of automated rotary test stand (ownership assigned) for in-house sensor testing
. Root cause and failure analysis of field returned heavy duty rotary position sensors
. Vibration lab testing (sine-sweep) of IMU's and configuring IMU's (Ethernet and CAN based) for bench testing
. MATLAB scripts for IMU data time synchronization and other projects in sensor development
. Building harnesses and test set-up's for sensor development (testing)
2) Michigan State University (Research Assistant) - August 2019 to August 2023
Industry sponsored Project: Early-stage Fatigue Prediction in Martensitic Stainless-Steel Samples (Part of Ph.D. thesis)
. Designed and implemented a custom electromagnetic sensor; Simulation was performed using COMSOL Multiphysics
. Designed experimental setups, data-acquisition (using LabVIEW), material selection and procurement
. Developed an algorithm to classify steel samples based on fatigue and obtained a classification accuracy of 93.75%
Industry sponsored Project: Steam Generator Management Program: Simulation model using FEM for eddy current steam generator inspection
. Implemented a data-driven parasitic compensation algorithm using MATLAB
. Validated simulation results with experimental results for different categories of defects with desired accuracy of 80%
3) National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India (Research Scholar) - July 2016 - July2019
• Led component selection, hardware system design and implementation, circuit simulation using LTspice, programming
using Arduino, PCB layout, and soldering surface mount components for the department-funded project "Human muscle
energy harvesting for low-power lighting applications in remote locations."
• Provided teaching assistance in circuit-related laboratories for Linear Integrated Circuits, Digital Electronics, and Joy of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Proposed new experiments and innovative approaches to learning in labs and conducted workshops related to circuit design and simulation using LTspice, and gave talks related to circuit design and implementation, such as "Feel for Electronic Components – A Design Perspective," "Problem Solving - A System Design Approach," and "Electronic Circuit Debugging - A Digital Electronics Lab Perspective."