Abhinav Prakash: Project Engineer
Abhinav Prakash
Project Engineer
United States
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Ford AV
Project Engineer | 01/2020 - Current
* Designed innovative mounting techniques to suspend components weighing up to 500lbs in a public area
* Design Audio-Video (A/V) systems worth $500,000 consisting of displays, cameras, racks and networking hardware
* Conducted Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on existing systems and reconfigured/replaced system elements
* Decreased design process time by 20%, by collaborating with estimators to generate sales quote
* Obtained highest customer satisfaction rating by building unique customer training program for each system
* Assisted Project Manager to liaise with vendors and customers, optimizing inventory, maintaining timeframes.
Complex Fluids Lab, University of Houston
Product Design Engineer | 03/2019 - 12/2019
* Led a team of four, to model 3 different setup ideas for an erosion-corrosion experiment using Solidworks, and fabricated optimal setup in terms of cost and material requirements
* Established a flow rate of about 2GPM by designing a hydraulic circuit to connect pump, valves and eductor
* Synthesized a system for maintaining constant water-sand mixing ratio in suspension and reduced budget by 50%
* Conducted Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and DFMEA to isolate cause for constant leaking of tank.
UH-Fluor Construction Driven Pipeline Design Challenge
Design Engineer | 09/2019 - 11/2019
* Designed a 200,000ft pipeline transporting water from an elevation of 2000ft to 4000ft using AFT Fathom
* Developed foundation design for pump stations to estimate equipment requirement and project cost
* Reiterated for design improvement by using multiple pumps, reducing material wastage, thus lowering cost by 33%
Hum Aspen Pvt. Ltd
Mechanical Design Engineer Intern | 09/2014 - 12/2016
* Designed, fabricated and shipped a variety of mechanical products worth $15,000 and led a team of 8 technicians
* Modeled design ideas for each project in Solidworks CAD software which were presented during design reviews
* Complied with customer specified guidelines to receive good customer rating by drawing models with 3D CAD
* Lowered development cost by 25% by Using DFA/DFM techniques on the mechanical design
* Estimated project costs for each project by creating a Bill of Material (BOM) and defining a procurement strategy
* Refined design producing over 100 variations by using analysis techniques such as FEA and CFD using ANSYS
Education history
Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
R.T.M. Nagpur University
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
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