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Sourav Das (born 1991 in Bhopal, India) is a Ph.D. student of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Education and career
Sourav receives his master’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the year 2016. He is a pioneer in the field of materials, Graphene, Computational fluid dynamics and Evolutionary Computation. During his masters, his work was essentially focused on the area of High strain rate deformation of graphene-reinforced aluminum alloy cellular material used for crashworthiness application which had a huge impact in the automotive and aerospace industries. He did his bachelor’s from India he had been experienced with the companies namely Altair Engineering, M/s Ashok Leyland India, DUCOM industries focused on tribology.

Honors and achievements
Sourav was awarded for best design of the Year 2015 by the American Wind Energy Association his design was recognized by AWEA for power saving and more efficient by 87.7%, North Carolina. He was also awarded for Best Product Design of the year by Vanmoof and Splinter for smart Bikes design. He was also awarded for the best student poster 2017-Student Choice Award by the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His Bachelor thesis was adjudged Best project of the year award by TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES which was awarded to top 50 students from India his project was based on Evaluation of aluminum alloy brake drum for automobile application which helped in automotive industries to advance in brake drum application and increasing its efficiency.

Research papers published
·   Evaluation of Aluminium alloy brake drum for automobile application

·   Design and weight optimization of Aluminium alloy wheel for sports utility vehicle

·   Analysis of knuckle joint 30c8 steel for automobile application (published in

·   Investigation of Mechanical Properties of AA8011 Aluminium alloy-based Fly ash particle Metal Matrix Composites (Published in Research & Reviews: Journal of Material Sciences

·   Graphene Reinforced Aluminium Hybrid Foam: Response to High Strain Rate Deformation (Under Review) Journal of Material Engineering and Performance ASM Journal

·    Analyzing Distances Based on Pixels using MATLAB: An Image Analysis Study (published in Engineering Technology Open Access Journal Volume 2, Issue 3)

·    Impact Toughness of Closed Cell Aluminum foam (Advance Materials Proceedings)

Books Published
·      Graphene Reinforced Aluminium foam for Automobile and Aerospace, Category: Mechanical engineering, manufacturing technology,  Omni Scriptum and LAP Publishing. ISBN-13:

978-620-2-05946- EAN: 9786202059466.

·      Graphene- Growth, Synthesis and Functionalization”, WILEY-Scrivener Publishing LLC, USA

Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee                                                                         

·   Design of Machine Elements

·   Computational Tools for Engineers (MATLAB)

·   How things work

University of Missouri-Columbia                                                                            

Teaching Experience in Mechanical Engineering Design (January 2015 -July 2016)

Area of Emphasis
Composite Materials, Computational fluid dynamics, Nano materials, Graphene Al Foam, F.E.A (Finite Element Analysis), Design optimization

Technical Skills
Hyper-mesh, Optimization, Abrasion /Air jet erosion tester, Hopkinson bar, MATLAB, Radioss, Magma Soft Software, SEM, COMSOL Multiphysics, ANSYS