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Prashant Panneerselvam

Windsor,Canada

Summary

Passionate engineer with 15 years experience in Automotive NVH and Durability Engineering. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager

Isuzu Technical Center Of America Inc.
06.2023 - Current
  • Developed a strong company culture focused on employee engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities
  • Facilitated successful cross-functional collaborations for the completion of key projects, fostering strong working relationships among team members
  • Streamlined workflows by identifying bottlenecks in existing systems and proactively addressing these challenges through appropriate solutions implementation
  • Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives
  • Reduced operational costs through comprehensive process improvement initiatives and resource management.

Supervisor

Isuzu Technical Center of America Inc.
06.2021 - 05.2023
  • Conceptualized and developed vehicle test for frame mounted component durability to improve accuracy of Data driven FE modeling.
  • Establish 100% virtual vehicle tests utilizing legacy data for new programs with over 90% accuracy in correlation to vehicle data.
  • Mentored junior staff members in their career development, sharing knowledge from years of experience in the field
  • Championed continuous improvement efforts within the organization by promoting best practices for processes, tools, or technologies
  • Led major initiatives within the department that drove innovation or addressed critical business challenges
  • Monitored workflow to improve employee time management and increase productivity.

Senior Engineer

Isuzu Technical Center of America Inc.
04.2018 - 05.2021
  • Lead project scheduling and budgeting to successfully and quickly complete engineering projects
  • Coordinated internal and external resources, for NVH and Durability related powertrain and vehicle evaluations
  • Developed accelerated rough road durability test patterns and lead durability evaluations for EV architecture for usable life validation
  • Organized and participate in supplier discussions for subsystem durability
  • Established, correlated and implemented CAE durability methodologies at accuracy level 4 (~10% deviation from physical measurements)
  • Calculated load levels and material stress factors using FEA to identify design constraints and countermeasure feasibility.

Engineer II

Isuzu Technical Center of America Inc.
09.2015 - 03.2018
  • Performed root cause analysis for field issues and propose countermeasures with minimum impact on cost and manufacturing protocol
  • Performed Non road/ Off highway diesel engine and engine mounted parts NVH evaluations for conformance customer requirements
  • Evaluated noise performance of the vehicle to establish and to validate product level targets
  • Processed and tracked engineering change requests for design/target revisions
  • Reported and documented, findings and recommendation/countermeasures for a variety of issues and quality gate sign offs.

Product Engineer

Ford Motor Company
04.2013 - 09.2015
  • Performed root cause analysis of system level NVH issues and diagnostics of Automotive NVH issues
  • Implemented System level NVH development activities through test-based hardware evaluations, modal impact testing and analysis, collection and analysis of sound and vibration frequency response functions
  • Performed System level NVH CAE analysis of sound and vibration frequency response functions for various C/D car and Medium-sized SUV platforms
  • Led door-closing sound quality benchmarking and correlation project, to correlate physical testing and CAE analysis
  • Proposed design alternatives for lift gate to resolve squeak and rattle issues for medium SUV platform using NASTRAN
  • Estimated the effect of fuel tank mounting bolt preload over point mobilities on vehicle hard points
  • Optimized engine mount location of sports-coupe for better vibration performance in cabin
  • Documented findings/conclusions through summary reports.

Infra Engineering Co-op

GE Aviation
10.2012 - 02.2013
  • Involved in CAE evaluation of existent design for modes and optimize the response to avoid resonance by optimizing design
  • Experimentally correlated the effect of a honeycomb boundary wall on the acoustic frequencies in linear and annular cavities based on the CAE studies for the optimized design.

Research Assistant

University Of Michigan-Dearborn
08.2011 - 12.2013
  • FEA for Weld durability in spot welded lap joints
  • Studied constitutive material models to evaluate springback prediction accuracy
  • Estimated material spring back on dual phase steel (DP590) for effective compensation in die design.
  • Correlated measured test results to FEA prediction with error tolerance within 20%

Education

Master of Science Automotive Engineering -

University of Michigan - Dearborn
12.2013

Bachelor of Technology Mechanical Engineering -

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli
05.2011

Skills

  • Predictive CAE for product development
  • Commercial truck NVH/Durability
  • Establish/Improve test methods
  • Develop real world CAE processes
  • Vehicle chassis mounted subsystems
  • Supplier interactions
  • Cross functional leadership
  • Complex Problem-Solving
  • Mechanical design and optimization
  • Root cause analyses

Certification

  • Vehicle Dynamics of heavy trucks, NEXUS University of Michigan Ann Arbor
  • FEA in vibration analysis, SAE International
  • NVH Academy, Powertrain& Vehicle Noise Track, SAE International
  • NVH Aspects for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, SAE International
  • Fatigue, Durability and Life Assessment, ISIFS Bengaluru India
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, I cert Global
  • Fault tree analysis, SAE International
  • ADAMS Advance Education, Isuzu Motors Limited, Japan

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
Japanese
Elementary

Patent

SURGE SUPPORTER (AN ALTERNATIVE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMOBILE) - INDIA PATENT 2409/CHE/2012 · Issued Dec 29, 2022

Timeline

Manager

Isuzu Technical Center Of America Inc.
06.2023 - Current

Supervisor

Isuzu Technical Center of America Inc.
06.2021 - 05.2023

Senior Engineer

Isuzu Technical Center of America Inc.
04.2018 - 05.2021

Engineer II

Isuzu Technical Center of America Inc.
09.2015 - 03.2018

Product Engineer

Ford Motor Company
04.2013 - 09.2015

Infra Engineering Co-op

GE Aviation
10.2012 - 02.2013

Research Assistant

University Of Michigan-Dearborn
08.2011 - 12.2013

Master of Science Automotive Engineering -

University of Michigan - Dearborn

Bachelor of Technology Mechanical Engineering -

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli

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