Aditya Raghunandan raghuna@rose-hulman.

edu
888 Foxcrest Crt - Terre Haute, Indiana 47803 - United States of America
Ph: 821-229-7815
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Objective
To obtain a summer internship and apply accrued technical, analytical and research skills to contribute to
Innovative Product Development.
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Education

M.S in Mechanical Engineering September 2010 – December 2011 (expected)

Graduate Research Assistant
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
United States of America
3.83/4.0 Grade Point Average
B.E in Mechanical Engineering July 2006 - July 2010
Manipal Institute of Technology, India
(Top 1% of class)

Skills
• Advanced 3-D CAD modeling using ProE/ CATIA
• Suspension system design and modeling using ADAMS and Optimum K Racing
• Electric Vehicle Dynamics
• Combustion Engine tuning using Ricardo WAVE
• Rapid Prototyping using Z-Print prototyping software
• Advanced programming using LabView and Matlab
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Work Experience

Engineering Research Intern,

REVA Electric Car Company, January 2010 - July 2010
Bangalore, India

Project Objective: To design and manufacture a prototype of an Independent Suspension System for the REVA
NXR-2011 ( India’s latest Electric Car Model )

• Collaborated with engineers from General Motors, India to develop a new Electric Vehicle Load
Response Simulator to predict the ride quality required on Indian roads
• Assisted REVA to evaluate the drawbacks of the current system employed
• Solved the weight distribution problem by proposing to use an alternate transmission system
• Applied knowledge of Racecar Vehicle Dynamics to conceive a more sophisticated suspension
• Utilized the existing chassis to accommodate new transmission and suspension system
• Manufactured and tested prototype of the new Semi-Trailing Arm Suspension System
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 Team Captain,
Formula Manipal, January 2007 - September 2008
Manipal University Formula SAE Team
Maranello, Italy

Project Objective: To design, manufacture, test and market a 600cc Racecar

• First Indian and most successful First Year team at Formula SAE as acknowledged by Michael J Royce,
Former Technical Director, Lamborghini Engineering.
• Coordinated prototype manufacture and vehicle integration
• First vehicle in the world to successfully test prototype using the "C-RIO" data-acquisition system from
National Instruments
• Assisted Marketing Team to raise over $100000 from corporate houses such as Delphi Automotive,
National Instruments and TRW Steering
• Combined with Business Team to deliver a business model for prototype discussing the feasibility of
large scale manufacture
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Summer Engineering Intern

IKIX 3-D Prints Pvt. Ltd. May 2009 - July 2009
Chennai, India

Project Objective: To validate design and manufacture a prototype of a Connecting Rod of an Industrial Cement
Mixer using 3-D Printing Rapid Prototyping Technique

• Aided IKIX to appraise mechanical and thermal design of Connecting Rod

• Proposed the use of a scaled model to prevail over limitation of company tooling configuration
• Designed a new 2:1 scale model of Connecting Rod
• Assessed, Simulated and Documented operational stress patterns on scaled model