Sagar Suresh Srikant

 Lead Engineering Development for Refrigerant Sub-System to meet Green House Gas Regulations.  Hands-On troubleshooting component sub-system and vehicle issues. Notable Achievements:  Resolved the customer complaints related to odor issues by minimizing the discharge air temperature fluctuations by less than 5°C during compressor cycling.  Completed test setup for Heater Core and identified yearly cost savings worth $24,000.00

1. Test Rig Building, Design and Development 2. Control Related activities 3. Skills/Tools :- Do-More Designer Programming Software, C-More Micro Graphic Programming Software.

Notable Achievements:  Examined hydraulic expansion of thermostat valves on 1.4L Multi Air Turbo Dodge Vehicle.  Tested 2.4L Alfa Romeo Jeep METS cart for warm-up improvement.  Instrumented Sensors and Actuators to facilitate vehicle thermal management and testing.  Tools utilized for effective instrumentation are MS Excel, Etrap2 for Data Analysis, IBox Hardware, Campbell CR9000 Data Acquisition System.

 TVS Motor Company is one of the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India.  Model to analyze the combustion phenomenon in gasoline engines. Notable Achievements:  Developed combustion model for gasoline engines using Matlab software.  Developed emission model to understand the pollutant formation in gasoline engines.

Notable Achievements:  Developed graphical interface program using Lab-View to detect Nucleate Boiling.  Analyzed fluctuations in Pressure Transducers during the nucleate boiling stage.  Developed Labview based combustion analyzer tool for engine research.  Developed Matlab code to detect peak cylinder pressure for every engine cycle.  Computed Mean Effective Pressure using trapz command in Matlab.  Tools utilized are NI-Labview, Matlab, DSP ACAP Combustion Analyzer Tool

I.C. Engines-1, Advanced Heat Transfer ,Advanced Combustion ,Advanced Thermodynamics, Dynamic Meas/Signal Analysis ,Regression Analysis ,Dynamic Systems and Controls , Computational Fluids Eng , I.C. Engines-2

Design of Machine Elements, Thermodynamics, I.C. Engines, Automotive Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer, Manufacturing Processes, Project Mangement, Total Quality Management, Strength of Materials. Degree Project: - Design of Thermo-Acoustic Refrigerator