Curriculum Vitae

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Personal Details
Surname / Family Name

Rajkotwala

First name

Adnan

Address

Haaksbergerstraat 82, 501 B

Postal/Zip code, City

EA 7513, Enschede

Country

Netherlands

Nationality

Indian

Telephone 1 (mobile)

+31633886096

Email address

adnan.rajkotwala@gmail.com

Date & Place of Birth

27/12/1989 Vadodara, India

Gender (M/F)

Male

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Education
Master (Currently pursuing)
University:

University of Twente

Name of program:

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Specialization:

Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Start date:

September 2013

Bachelor
University:

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology

Name of program:

Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)

Start date:

July 2007

Date of graduation:

May 2011

Nominal duration of study:

Four years

GPA:

9.33/10

Projects & Internships:

Study of heat transfer augmentation in Nanofluids

Final year thesis project to study the enhancement of heat augmentation by nanofluids at different
concentrations by experimental investigation and an analytical model.
Supervisor Dr. Jyotirmay Banerjee, Associate Professor Mechanical Department, NIT Surat

Study of hydrodynamic instabilities for the flow over axisymmetric body

Primarily involved in developing numerical algorithm for solving Boundary Layer equations for the flow
over axisymmetric body.
Supervisor Dr. Vinod Narayanan, Assistant Professor Mechanical Department, IIT Gandhinagar

Vocational Training (Alstom Power, Vadodara)

Completed one month industrial training in Alstom Power, where worked on two projects namely
1. Hydro Turbines and its manufacturing
2. Lean Manufacturing.

Seminars and Presentations:

Bachelors seminar presentation - SIMPLE and MAC algorithms for the solving incompressible Navier
Stokes equation.
In-house symposium presentation on the summer project Solution of Boundary Layer equations for
the flow over axisymmetric body.
Paper presentation Presentation on Hydrogen Fuel Cell at Mindbend, 2008 a national level technical
festival held in NIT, Surat
Innovations Presentation on grassroot innovation Spraying pump used with cycle at Pakriti, 2008 held
by National Innovation Foundation (Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad)

Computer Proficiency:

Development Tools/Languages: FORTRAN, Matlab

Design Tools/Simulation: PRO-E, Ansys Mechanical, CFX & Workbench, TecPlot

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

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Professional Experience
Company Engineers India Limited (August, 2011 July, 2013)
Post Engineer (Mechanical), Offshore Project Office, Mumbai
Worked as Project management consultant on projects where EIL were Consultants to oil companies in
India
Worked in a multi-disciplinary role as part of a team managing fabrication and installation of an offshore
gas platform
Trained in design at EIL Design Center

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Standardized Test Scores

Graduate Record Examinations : 317/340

Quantitative Reasoning 168/170 Verbal Reasoning 149/170
TOEFL iBT: 108/120
Reading 29/30 Listening 30/30 Speaking 22/30 Writing 27/30

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Fellowships and Scholarships

University of Twente Scholarship (UTS)

Awarded to only 24 international students across all the faculties to pursue Graduate studies at University
of Twente
Summer Undergraduate Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Included a research project and an in-house symposium presentation on the project.
Scholarship provided by His Holiness Dr. Syedna Taher Saifuddin Memorial Foundation
Awarded to academically proficient students

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Publications
Influence of Brownian motion of nanoparticles towards heat transfer augmentation in
Nanofluid
Published in proceedings of 21st National & 10TH ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference IIT
Madras, 2011

Influence of rheological behavior of Nanofluid on heat transfer

Published in WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer
(http://www.wseas.org/multimedia/journals/heat/2013/0356-484.pdf)

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Extra-Curricular Activities

Teacher at a non-profit organisation for underprivileged children NIRVANA

Volunteered as a Mathematics and Science tutor for high school students coming from underprivileged
families at HOPE Project ( NGO in Delhi)
Executive member of institute technical committee DRISHTI at SVNIT, India.
Took active role in management committee of different festivals of SVNIT (from Sponsorship Co-manager
to Hospitality Head)
Impact head for the SVNITs annual magazine As We Are of the academic year 2009-10
Took active role in college group I-India at SVNIT for spreading awareness about Global warming by
arranging screening of documentaries, recycle paper drives and open discussions in various colleges of
Gujarat (India).