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.

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.

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