Abdul Raheem Shaik Email & Phone Number

Lawrenceville, GA, US

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Created heat transfer model of all company cabin wall designs and compared R-values to demonstrate improvements in updated wall design
• Implemented Aerogel insulation in current LGSF model to tackle thermal bridging, improving R-value threefold and decreasing electricity costs in cabin by 68%
• Optimized Fiber Cement Board wall cladding installation to limit material waste only 6% of material, reducing material waste and corresponding monetary loss by 67%
• Selected thermal imaging camera and drafted procedural document to detect cabin air leakages
• Catalgoued building flashing materials and conducted cost analysis on materials to identify low costing material that meets cabin lifetime rating
• Educated team on advanatges of ridge vents in providing natural ventilation and conducted CFD analysis to determine appropriate ridge vent design

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Master's Thesis titled "Next Generation Heat Exchangers for Atmospheric Water Collection"
• Researched methods to enhance heat transfer capabilities of heat exchangers and heat sinks
• Created a thermodynamic and heat transfer model of atmospheric water collection system utilizing a novel micro bare rod heat exchanger in Engineering Equation Solver (EES)
• Validated model observations in ANSYS Fluent by creating simplified model of heat exchanger system
• Budgeted and purchased necessary sensors and equipment to build experimental setup
• Fabricated novel micro bare rod heat exchanger via additive manufacturing

Purdue University

• Mentored first-year engineering students in utilizing Excel/MATLAB as a problem-solving tool
• Guided students to learn unique problem solving and teamwork techniques to solve real life engineering problems

West Lafayette, Indiana

• Researched methods to improve or maintain vented clothes dryer performance while reducing energy input
• Generated thermodynamic model of vented clothes dryer utilizing fin-and-tube heat exchanger in waste stream using EES software
• Coordinated with graduate mentor to construct experimental setup by attaching fin-and-tube heat exchanger along with thermocouples and relative humidity probes to the waste stream of the vented dryer
• Conducted multiple test runs and analyzed data in EES to yield a heat exchanger effectiveness of 55% and 0.1 kWh of energy recovery

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Researched powder and particles dynamics to design screw feeding system for biomass pyrolysis
• Analyzed present screw feeder and determined design parameters that lead to powder choking
• Proposed alterations to screw design specifications that would prevent choking

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

• Shadowed the building maintenance to learn about the equipment (HVAC System, Fire Fighting System, Solar Lighting Panels) used to run the facility
• Introduced to machinery used in Mechanical Testing laboratory to test fatigue, tensile strength, and bending.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Engineering, 3.66/4.00

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.24/4.00

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering, 3.64/4.00