Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

Aditya Dabas

West New York,NJ

Summary

Mechanical Product Design Engineer with 2.5 years of experience designing and developing products from customer specifications and sales department requests. Proactively communicated with manufacturing team to plan materials and tools necessary to build specified designs. Well-versed in Mechanical design applications and products.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Engineer

Humanscale
06.2022 - Current
  • Manage & Engineer a wide portfolio of Sit-Stand products by creating/editing complex CAD assemblies & drawing packages aiding in manufacturability of products with overseas suppliers.
  • Interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and computer-generated reports for product conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
  • Design and test cost effective solutions (~20+ monthly) for custom orders while closely collaborating with customers closing sales contracts worth over $500,000 annually.
  • Supervise testing and author test plans for product compliance with industry standards (UL/ANSI/BIFMA).
  • Address supplier quality issues working with quality engineering counterpart including material deviation requests, Evaluate and control production processes.
  • Brainstorm cost savings (~$60K Savings annually) ideas and ways to use SLOB inventory. In 2023, Reduced 14 hardware SKUs by consolidating fasteners and hex keys for all Sit-Stand Products.
  • Implemented SolidWorks PDM across company's product database by conducting training sessions, establishing custom automated workflows ensuring seamless collaboration between cross-functional teams resulting in 15% shorter lead times for changes
  • Initiated a project tracking call in Q1 2023 to overcome significant product launch challenges, ensuring timely coordination across all departments. Developed a project tracker that contributed to the successful on-time product launch.
  • Provided technical support to sales teams, enabling them to better communicate product benefits and features to customers.

Product Engineering Intern

Humanscale
01.2022 - 05.2022
  • Enhanced parts with issues in form/fit/function, engineered assets for products using SolidWorks & peer reviewed ~5 special order requests monthly. Performed FEA on structural parts ensuring intended performance.
  • Investigated for Out-of-Specification parts reducing customer returns & assisted Quality Engineering in returns material assessment practicing root cause analysis strategies.

Systems Design Engineer

Multi-Mode Hybrid Drone Delivery System Project
09.2021 - 05.2022
  • Optimized a quadcopter for ideal components, computed flight profile parameters in MATLAB, performed preflight checks and authored numerous custom test plans to verify successful integration of multiple systems.
  • Modeled a docking winch mechanism and used FEA to eliminate weak spots in the frame reducing failure rate improving stability and flight time (+1 minute from initial prototype).

Aerospace Engineering Intern

HawaiAdda Aerial Innovations Private Limited
04.2021 - 07.2021
    • Designed an effective thrust-to-weight ratio drone by shifting to lighter graphite and carbon fiber composite materials, switching the propulsion to a Hybrid multi-rotor system resulting in 12% longer flights
    • Optimized drone manufacturing automating fastener assembly.

Assistant Teacher

Rutgers Learning Centers
09.2019 - 05.2021
  • Tutored ~20 students in weekly workshops with engaging lectures, experiments & quizzes, assisted in coping with unique obstacles of remote learning
  • Attended weekly peer leadership sessions through a series of workshops gaining managerial decision making skills.

Rocket Science Intern

Brahmastra Aerospace Systems
02.2021
  • Simulated 2 rockets with 2kg payload, 2km range & 2kN avg
  • Thrust, conducted exit velocity tests to find optimal type of engine nozzle
  • Blueprinted a 3rd rocket with excellent burning time and thrust coefficient using the prior analyses.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Concentration)

Rutgers University, School of Engineering
Piscataway, New Jersey
05.2022

Skills

  • SolidWorks, AutoCAD, COMSOL, Ansys
  • Product Conceptualization-to-Launch
  • Engineering Drawings Evaluation
  • Forming and Machining
  • Product Lifecycle & Data Management
  • Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
  • New Process Implementation
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • Technical Presentations
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Vendor Collaboration
  • Operations Planning

Timeline

Product Engineer

Humanscale
06.2022 - Current

Product Engineering Intern

Humanscale
01.2022 - 05.2022

Systems Design Engineer

Multi-Mode Hybrid Drone Delivery System Project
09.2021 - 05.2022

Aerospace Engineering Intern

HawaiAdda Aerial Innovations Private Limited
04.2021 - 07.2021

Rocket Science Intern

Brahmastra Aerospace Systems
02.2021

Assistant Teacher

Rutgers Learning Centers
09.2019 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Concentration)

Rutgers University, School of Engineering
Aditya Dabas