Mugdha Joshi Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Towson, Maryland, United States

• Handled the mechanical design of multiple electro-mechanical tools by collaborating with global cross-functional teams.• Successfully met performance, durability, ergonomics CTQs on 2 types of laser levels using CAE analyses, GD&T, tolerance stack-ups and hand calculations.• Created and revised 50+ 3D parts, assemblies, and drawings employing CAD Software CATIA V5 & updated design changes in Windchill PLM ensuring attention to detail.• Created comprehensive test plans to evaluate the laser level designs according to industry standards for safety and compliance.• Reduced total test time for holding torque testing by 50% by re-designing test fixture and improving the test procedure using Arduino Uno.• Innovated and prototyped multiple laser level accessories, successfully confirming their feasibility through proof of concepts.• Pitched innovation ideas in front of higher leadership team utilizing power point presentation skills.• Recognized with 'WIN Award' for most innovative design solution for laser level accessory – ‘Laser Detect and Mark’.• Acted as a technical liaison between suppliers and manufacturing teams to troubleshoot design and manufacturing issues in the abandoned laser detector and re-implemented the detector program.• Conducted user research to closely understand user needs and enhance the design for better ergonomics.

St Joseph, Missouri, United States

• Performed comprehensive testing for special machinery & Innovated multiple test fixtures according to ASME Y 14.1.• Led component level endurance testing conforming to OSHA standards along with ISO 9001 and participated in full unit strain gage testing.• Designed slave cylinder replacer weldment by applying DFMA techniques for Waterjet cutting and MIG welding.• Optimized the design and reduced material by performing mechanical stress analysis for required load conditions in SolidWorks.• Brainstormed ideas for designing cylinder fixture cover and modeled the optimum design with 60% weight reduction and 33% reduction in assembly time using SolidWorks.• Leveraged Microsoft Office to prepare and maintain technical documentation including detailed reports, presentations, and spreadsheets.• Simplified sensor configuration procedure and reduced configuration time by 40% for Kvaser CAN interface by creating new user interface (UI) in Python

Rolla, Missouri, United States

• Automated support generating process for powder bed additive manufacturing process (metal 3D Printing).• Built deep variational autoencoder using Keras and TensorFlow for Powder Bed Metal Additive Manufacturing• Created a dataset of 15k voxel representations of 3D CAD models in STL file format for research in 3D printing• Presented a poster on ‘Applications of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms in Additive Manufacturing- A Review’ at ‘Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2019,’ an additive manufacturing conference in Austin, TX

Pune Area, India

• Spearheaded the mechanical design ‘Stair Skipper’, a special mobility solution from conception to fruition.• Pioneered support structure using SolidWorks and contributed in the design of carriage• Created detailed part drawings and assembly drawings using SolidWorks and followed design safety standards ISO 9386-1• Employed project management principles navigating through manufacturing issue resulting in 20% sooner completion of project.

Pimpri, Pune, India

• Engineered spot-welding electrode cap tip dresser to re-enable 6 robotic spot-welding stations.• Improvised cutting blade shape using CATIA V5 for optimal tip dressing with minimum dressing time of 3 sec for BIW framing stations on Safari assembly line.• Achieved ~$350 cost reduction per dresser by introducing replaceable blades for in-house manufacturability and easy blade assembly (DFMA)

Master Of Science - Ms, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering