Ashok Thyagarajan Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

1) Designed and developed a novel dynamic flash evaporation and phase separation apparatus for desalination and water remediation applications. (Advised by Prof. Vijay Dhir and Prof. Debjyoti Banerjee through the HEEP Fellowship Program)2) Demonstrated feasibility with adiabatic and phase change experiments under vacuum conditions through lab scale experiments.3) High speed data acquisition and control using NI LabVIEW.4) Experimental data analysis and estimation of system thermal performance.5) Image processing (MATLAB) to analyze gas/vapor core geometry.

College Station-Bryan Area

Head TA for Materials, Manufacturing and Design Lab

San Francisco Bay Area

Design for Reliability - Thermal Hardware

College Station, Texas, United States

Lab TA for Materials and Manufacturing in Design Laboratory (MEEN 361) for three sections (over 50 junior students)

College Station, Texas, United States

1) Performed one step chemical synthesis to enhance mechanical properties of soft polymers.2) Analyzed sample chemical composition using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and imaged them using SEM.3) Conducted simple mechanical tests to verify enhancement in the sample's mechanical strength.

College Station, Texas, United States

1) Designed (SOLIDWORKS) and fabricated Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers (HX) using advanced manufacturing2) Experimentally tested and compared thermal performance of 3D printed shell and tube HX with metal plate HX using organic Phase Change Material (Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System)3) Data acquisition using NI LabVIEW.4) Analyzed thermal performance of the PCM heat exchangers through experiments.5) Performed transient CFD analysis (ANSYS FLUENT) of heat exchanger to predict melt and freeze front propagation.

College Station, Texas, United States

Designed (SOLIDWORKS) and fabricated microfluidic lab on a chip device to study electrical impulses from mini brains (asteroids) at Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI)

College Station, Texas, United States

1) Designed (SOLIDWORKS) and fabricated normally open soft polymer (Polydimethylsiloxane) microvalve using soft lithography.2) Performed structural analysis (ANSYS structural toolbox) on the microvalve (Stress & deformation analysis during thermal actuation).3) Trained in photolithography.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering