Hoskere, Shreyas
1269 East, 100 S, Apt 5, SLC, Utah - 84102,
801-971-9998         email: shreyashp@gmail.com

http://www.mech.utah.edu/~shreyas
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Mechanical Engineer (Computer Science minor) with 5+ years experience in Design/Optimization, Six Sigma Green Belt, Plastics Engineering for Medical devices, Injection Moulding, Adv. Solidworks,/Cosmosworks, Geostar (FEA) with added expertise in .NET, 3D comp graphics, Web (Java) programming.
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Education:

M.S, Mech. Engg, Comp Sc. (minor) GPA - 3.85, University of Utah (UofU), SLC, UT, USA
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Computer Skills:

Programming: VB.NET, ASP.NET, VC++, C++, C#, Java (Client/Server/RMI/J2EE/Java3D), Tcl/Tk,VTK, OpenGL, DirectX, Shell script, XML, HTML, C++, 8086 Assembly, VB/Java Script.
Mechanical Engg Software: Adv. Solidworks, Cosmosworks, GeoStar, ANSYS, ALGOR, Pro-Engineer (WF)/Mechanica, AutoCAD.
Other: Matlab, MathCAD
DBs: MS-Access
O/S: Win9x/2000/ME/XP, Unix, Sun-Solaris, Linux, BSD, BeOS.

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Experience - Work / Research (Summary):

1. R&D Engineer, Product Development, “BD Medical Systems”, Sandy , UT       [2005-2006] •  Project Leader - extension sets slide clamp change. Saved the product line, about 500$k/year.
•  Six Sigma Green Belt, Project Planning/Management Mastery, Feasability , Adv. Eng. Statistics.
•  Sustaining engineering - Optimization of medical devices, Precision design, R&D engineeing.
•  Design of Experiments, Design Verification, Measurement System Analysis, Noise Testing, FEA.
    Software used – Minitab, MS Projects, Solidworks, Cosmosworks, Geostar

2. Design Engineering Intern, R&D, “Bard Access Systems”, Salt Lake City , UT [2004-2005]
•  Product design of innovative medical devices – Catheters, Ports, Feeding tubes, PICCs etc.
•  Mold cavity/Core pin design for injection molding silicone/plastic products.
•  Injection Molding silicone/plastic products on the NISSAE, AutoJECTOR IM machines.
•  Tooling/Testing equipment/Fixture design for mechanical testing of medical devices.
•  CFD (heat transfer/flow analysis) of medical electronic devices.
•  Built machine control software design and development (GUI driven G code applications).

3. Assistant Engineer, Plastics Division, “M/s MECON, LLC”, Bangalore , Kar.    [2001-2002]
•  Process optimization for injection molding plastic products on the JLE-II IM machines.
•  Objective analysis of molding process and products, process window generation.
•  Mold evaluation for improvements on mold cavity, core pins, gating, venting etc.
•  CAD drafting of detailed engneering drawings.

4. Mechanical Engineer, “M/S Zycon LLC”, Bangalore , Kar.                                    [2003-2005]
•  ProEngineer computer aided design engineer.
•  Experience with operations and CNC programming (Haas Lathes and Mills, etc)
•  Managed and coordinated CAD drafters.

5. CAD Engineer, “Enviro Consultants and Eng, LLC”, Bangalore , Kar                   [1998-1999]
•  Drafting engineering drawings for material handling projects of gantry cranes, warehouse material
    handling layout, conveyor systems, etc.

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Publications and Patents:

6. CoM-SiM CAD Project, “UofU”, SLC , UT                                                                     [2002-2004]
•  Published in the 5 th international conference proceedings of “EUSPEN” – European Society of
    Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, May 2005.
•  CoM-SiM patent pending

Previous Research Experience:

7. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Research Assistant                                        [2003-2003]
•  Designed electrostatic microgripper, specially for the assembly of micro gears using conventional
   MEMS techniques. The microgripper was designed, built and tested on ‘intellisuite'.
•  Designed and built and tested micro transformer and micro heater arrays.

8. Heat Transfer, Research Assistant.                                                                           [2002-2003]
•  Designed the test section of a transonic wind tunnel to study heat transfer characteristics of a
   specific gas turbine aero foil. It also involved design of Zn-Se windows to photograph infrared
   images of the heated aerofoil from IR cameras. [Heat transfer Lab, UofU]
•  Conducted experiments at the ‘Propulsion Lab', National Aerospace Labs, to evaluate the
   “Effects of Heat Transfer on rotating square ducts of gas turbine blades”. (32 weeks)

9. Scientific Data Visualization, Research Asst., UofU                                                [2003-2003]
•  Built programs to convert 3D MRI scan data to visualize it as color mapped contour maps.
•  Developed tools to manipulate ‘Visual Human' data and applied isosurfacing, volume rendering and
    cutting planes to separate and visualize skin and bones individually.
•  Tensor/Vector visualization to map critical points in complex fluid flow fields using glyphs.

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References (Work):

•  Steve Thoresen, Engineering Manager, R&d Dept, “BD Medical Systems”, Sandy , UT.
•  Bret Hamatake, Staff Engineer, R&D Dept, “Bard Access Systems”, SLC , UT.
•  Randy Barron, Sr. Design Engineer, ‘Bard Access Systems”, SLC , UT.

References (Academic):

•  Dr Eberhard Bamberg, PhD [M.I T], Mechanical Engg Department, UofU. (mech.utah.edu)
•  Dr Charles Thomas, PhD [M.I.T], Mechanical Engg Department, UofU. (mech.utah.edu)

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