Abhra Chatterjee's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Abhra Chatterjee is currently a Summer Intern at South Eastern Coalfields Limited from June 2005 to July 2005 (2 months) in West Bengal, India. Studied pumps, supply systems, and other mechanical machinery. Process TD Engineer at Intel Corporation from August 2013 to November 2013 (4 months) in Hillsboro, OR. • Engaged in trouble shooting and product quality improvement for various processes involved in wafer manufacturing. Senior Thermal Engineer at SF Motors Inc in San Francisco Bay Area. • E-drivetrain thermal design, research and development• Thermal modeling at system and component level (1D and 3D)• Efficient thermal and cooling design• Optimizing and developing new methods for cooling and temperature prediction• Design of Experiments, tests, instrumentation, Data Acquisition, correlation and validation• Modeling component temperature and thermal durability damage• Evaluating the performances of heat exchangers, fans, pumps, etc• Developing models, design of experiments and tests, validation, proof of concept, driving development work, designing coolant loop routing and circuits, pressure Drop/Pump Power optimization. Thermal Engineer at General Motors from November 2013 to 2018 (5 years) in Pontiac, MI. • Thermal calibration, temperature prediction of electric components and systems• 1D/3D thermal modeling at system and component level• Overseeing thermal correlation analyses• Motor thermal damage estimation• Drive Unit level cooling and thermal analysis• Optimizing and developing new methods for cooling and temperature prediction• Design and analysis of cooling methods for electric motors, defining requirements• Heat transfer enhancement• Coolant routing• Design of Experiments, tests, instrumentation, Data Acquisition, correlation and validation• Thermal calibration, optimization, heat transfer and liquid cooling design, developing models. Research Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from August 2009 to July 2013 (4 years) in Troy, NY. Pursued doctoral degree in the area of heat transfer for condensation which has its applications in cooling high performance and compact electronic devices, large scale industrial cooling systems, etc.An experimental investigation to enhance heat transfer for condensation was conducted. Improvement in heat transfer rate was achieved by exploiting the surface energy of the condensation surface. Patterns of hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions on the condensation surface have been designed yielding enhanced heat transfer coefficients. Master's Student at Indian Institute of Science from August 2007 to July 2009 (2 years) in Bangalore, India. Drag and lift forces with varying dimensions and nature of the flexible surface on bluff bodies were investigated. Successfully reduced drag forces on a bluff body by 50% by appending flexible surfaces on it.particle image velocimetry (PIV) of the flow was undertaken.

🎓 Education

Abhra Chatterjee, who has been working in the Mechanical and Aerospace industries for the last few years, has a B.Tech degree from Haldia Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in2009. She is currently working on her Master of Engineering with Distinction from the Indian Institute of Science. Her previous education has focused on Mechanical and Aerospace engineering, and she has been working in the field for the past few years.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Abhra Chatterjee has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2007 and a Master's degree in Heat Transfer from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2009. After doing his undergraduate and Masters course in Mechanical Engineering, he worked as an experimental engineer with US based Intel Corporation from August 2013 to November 2013 (4 months) in Hillsboro, Oregon. From November 2013 to 2018, he was a senior thermal engineer at General Motors in Pontiac, Michigan. There he focused on thermal calibration, temperature prediction of electric components and systems, 1D/3D thermal modeling at system and component level, overseeing thermal correlation analyses, motor thermal damage estimation, drive unit level cooling and thermal analysis, and optimization and developing new methods for cooling and temperature prediction. He also developed models for heat transfer and liquid cooling design, developing models for large scale industrial cooling systems, andPsuedo-D. He is currently a research assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.