SUMMARY
MS in Mechanical engineering with 3+ years’ industry experience in consumer product design, electromechanical design, and end-to-end engineering -- www.sahilpisharody.com
EDUCATION
Northeastern University, Boston, MA May 2024
Master of Science in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering CGPA: 3.84
Manipal University, Manipal, India May 2019
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering
TECHNICAL SKILLS
CAD: SolidWorks, CATIA, Creo, AutoCAD, Onshape, Siemens NX, Fusion 360, Inventor
Manufacturing: Sheetmetal, machining, additive mfg., molding, composites, fabrics, hand tools Drafting: Engineering Drawing, GD&T, 2D drafting
Software: MS Office, Python, R, Outlook, Excel
Analysis: ANSYS Workbench & Fluent, Risk Analysis, FMEA/DFMEA, Root cause analysis, Minitab, DoE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA Research Engineer – Mechanical Sept 24- Present
• Designed and developed microfluidic cartridges for a blood analysis medical device aimed at reducing testing time from 3 days to 20 minutes, taking the concept from sketches to clinical studies
• Formulated, pipetted, & lyophilized custom biochemical assays for use in microfluidic systems
• Overhauled internal design of a medical device to improve thermals, reducing temps from 88 C to < 65C using active cooling and creative material selection
• Designed & fabricated experimental tooling to quantify microfluidic mixing efficiency, including an optical imaging setup to capture fluid dynamics
• Developed image analysis code in Python, calculating pixel homogeneity & color variance to evaluate mixing performance
Future Factory, Mumbai Mechanical Design Engineer June 19 – April 22
Consumer product design
• Collaborated with industrial designers to develop aesthetic consumer electronics like speakers, power adapters & game controllers for a client, using foam & 3D printing to fabricate 10+ unique mockups
• Designed 3 iterations of aesthetic consumer products, utilizing injection molding and assembly optimization to reduce manufacturing cost from $100+ for prototypes to < $6, reducing part count & cost
• Utilized 3D printing to rapid prototype designer lighting solutions, household appliances and water purifiers
Medical Device Design and engineering
• Led design & R&D of a robotic medical device for the pharmaceutical industry with autonomous feed, scan and sortation mechanisms, over 7 iterations of novel design and engineering with a cross-functional team
• Drove innovation by conceptualizing, designing using 3D modeling software (Solidworks), and rapidly prototyping (3D printing) 70+ unique electro-mechanical mechanisms using machine design principles
• Designed, modeled, and assembled 7 iterations of design of the pharmaceutical robot, utilizing optomechanical & electromechanical design, to take precise reproducible images of Petri dishes
• Designed a robotic feed mechanism with intersecting ranges of motion to separate individual entities from a stack, and insert them autonomously into a rotating conveyor with sensing, redundancy and error recognition
• Designed and iterated on a sortation mechanism to segregate petri-dishes for disposal/further analysis
• Designed a geartrain implementing a Geneva mechanism, a cam and follower system to actuate a rotating conveyor, guaranteeing mechanical backstops for precise positioning, reducing control software complexity
Manufacturing & Root cause analysis
• Designed and fabricated sheet metal chassis for the medical device, leveraging design for manufacturing & assembly (DFM/DFA) principles - reducing assembly time and cost by 50%
• Optimized manufacturing by creating comprehensive BOMs, 2D manufacturing drawings using GD&T, and procedures for assembly, maintenance, and testing - reducing rework & accelerating time-to-market
• Problem-solved issues using FMEA, risk analysis, and established a product lifecycle management framework
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
AerospaceNU, Boston MA Mechanical Design Engineer September 23 – May 24
• Engineered an actuator-free non-destructive mechanism of stage-separation for a sounding rocket
• Performed hand-calculations & used FEA tools (ANSYS), ensuring structural integrity of internal structures
• Tested mechanisms of guided descent for a rocket using parafoils, reducing recovery time by 4 hours/launch
• Built deployment mechanisms for cameras, parachutes, parafoils, & aerial recovery
