Shreyas Chavan 306 E Clark St. Apt 103, Champaign, IL 61820 • schavan2@illinois.edu • (217) 979-5373 Education University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Master of Science, Mechanical Science and Engineering, GPA 4.00 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Bachelors of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department, GPA 8.34/10.0 May’16 (expected) Aug’14 Research Projects Investigation of Frost Formation and Durability of Scalable Jumping-Droplet Aluminum Surfaces Guide: Prof. Nenad Miljkovic, MechSE, UIUC (Aug’14-present)  Investigating nanostructure designs that promote jumping droplets with enhanced frost reduction capabilities  Developing and fabricating scalable and robust superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces  Modelling condensation and frosting processes on SLIPS and jumping droplet surfaces - Simulating heat transfer through water droplet using ANSYS to validate above models Air to Air Heat Recovery System (Jul’12-Sep’13) Guide: Prof. M V Rane, Heat Pump Laboratory, IIT Bombay  Designed and simulated a novel, simple, cost-effective and easy to manufacture corrugated heat and mass exchanger  Applications include: Dedicated Air to Air Heat Recovery Systems, Indirect Evaporative Cooling, Pervaporation, Liquid Desiccant Regeneration, Desalination, Potable Water Generation  Experimentally investigated the performance of heat exchanger in DOAS & Indirect Evaporative Cooling to validate its advantages over prior art  Filed a patent on this design at Indian Patent Office Designing of HVAC system of Solar Powered House (Dec’12-Dec’13) Guide: Prof. Rangan Banerjee, Energy Science and Engineering Department, IIT-Bombay  Team Leader of HVAC subsystem of IIT Bombay Solar Decathlon team  Team aimed to design and build an efficient, sustainable solar powered house representing Indian context for Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 competition, organized by US Department of Energy Powertrain for Formula Student Car (Jul’11-Dec’12) Guide: Prof. C Amarnath, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-Bombay  Design Engineer at IIT Bombay Racing Team which designs and manufactures an Electric Formula Race Car for the Formula Student, UK competition  Designed, modeled and simulated gearbox of the car with maximum power to weight ratio Internships Skoda Auto India Private Limited (Jun’12-Jul’12)  Project aimed at convenient selection of parts for different car models on assembly line  Engineered and successfully implemented an Arduino microcontroller based “Pick to Light” and “Pick in Sequence” system Videocon Industries Limited (Jun’11-Jul’11)  Modified and optimized a design of a LCD TV, making it slimmer Technical Skills Programming Languages: Packages: Simulation Tools: C/C++, Python, FORTRAN Solid Works, Pro-Engineer, Auto Cad ANSYS, Simulink, Adams, Hyperworks, Mathcad, MATLAB, Scilab