VAIBHAV VIJAYKUMAR PRASAD

ADDRESS: 506 Garnet Street, Houghton, MI-49931, EMAIL: vvprasad@mtu.edu, MOBILE: +1 (906) 370-8698

OBJECTIVE: Power system and renewables enthusiast seeking an Electrical Engineering full time position

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Passionate, persistent learner and having a very broad perspective, right attitude towards new technologies

1.5 years of experience as an Electrical Design Engineer in designing electrical facilities

5 months of experience in Solar Plant design and development

Demonstrated strong leadership skills, organizational qualities, co-ordination and communication with team members,

conducted meetings, maintained cordial relation with the clients & co-employees at work place

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS

Michigan Technological University, MI August, 2014 - May, 2016

M.S. Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) 3.88 GPA

Courses: Transients in Power Systems, Advanced Methods in Power Systems, Power System Protection, Power

System Protection Lab, Computer Modelling of Power System, Energy Storage System, Wind Power, Sustainable

Future, Advanced Power Electronics, Power System Dynamics and Stability

Mumbai University (SPCE), India Aug, 2008 - May, 2012

B.E. Electrical Engineering 3.6 GPA

With Full Tuition Fee Waiver Scholarship

CERTIFICATIONS

Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) – Michigan PE

Advanced Electric Power Engineering Certificate

FULL TIME WORK EXPERIENCE

Electrical Design Engineer (Power Delivery) - Aker Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India Jan 2013 - July 2014

Experience of leading a task force & cognizant with inter-departmental co-ordination in electrical facility design field

Hands-on experience on Power System Studies like Load flow, Short Circuit; designed interior and exterior lighting

Performed sizing of DG Set, transformer, Grounding & Lightning, breaker & switchboard rating, Voltage drop, cable &

Fault calculations; familiar with switchgear & motor schematics and hazardous area classification for enclosure selection

Conversant and hand-on experience with Single Line Diagram, panel & feeder schedule, load summary, shop drawings,

P&ID; power, lighting, grounding, lightning plans & SLD; equipment, cable tray plans, cable routing, cable schedule

Prepared data sheets for HV & LV switchgears, panels, busways, transformer and motors

INTERNSHIPS

Solar Intern - Tata Power Co. Ltd, India Aug-Dec, 2015

Designed 1 MW solar plant

Conversant with SLD, equipment layout

Sizing of DC cable, string inverters, transformer

Calculations for fixed, seasonal & progressive seasonal tilts, inter-row spacing, battery sizing, rooftop PV plant

Optimization of string combiner box, central & string inverter positions in solar plants to reduce DC losses

Transformer testing Intern - EMCO Ltd, India June-July, 2011

Gained familiarization with transformer winding & Core assembly, Erection, Tanking, Drying methods

Knowledge of transformer accessories, protection equipment and indication devices

Witnessed preliminary, routine and special tests

Visited SF6 substation

VAIBHAV VIJAYKUMAR PRASAD

ADDRESS: 506 Garnet Street, Houghton, MI-49931, EMAIL: vvprasad@mtu.edu, MOBILE: +1 (906) 370-8698

TERM PROJECTS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Michigan Technological University Aug 2014 – May 2016

Power System Protection: Effect of CT saturation on the distance relay setting with relay settings tested in the Protection Lab

Basic relay setting and co-ordination of motor feeders, transformer I/C & O/G, Switchboard I/C with largest motor

O/G

Lab testing of SEL 551C, SEL 311L and SEL 387E relays using Doble test kit

Power System Transients:

Transient effects of capacitor bank switching to determine short time CB rating & current limiting reactor size

Reactor Bank Switching transients

Synchronous machine dynamic stability analysis – magnitude of Loss of Load and fault clearing time effect

Design & Analysis of Renewable System:

Installed Rooftop Solar Panel for a house with retrofit solution for existing inverter

Solar powered Microgrid design with battery storage of Michigan Tech Electrical Engineering building

Solar & Wind Power integration analysis

Power Electronics:

Designed Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), DC Bus voltage controller & DC-DC Converter design

Sustainability:

CO2 emission & Life Cycle Assessment of Incandescent bulb & Fluorescent Bulb; hand dryer & paper hand towel;

Heterojunction Monocrystalline-Amorphous & Polycrystalline Silicon module

Mumbai University (SPCE) July 2011 - May 2012

Multi-application control using PLC

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

ETAP, Aspen, Cyme, ATP, Doble, AcSELerator, Chalmlite (Photometrics)

Auto-CAD

PVsyst, SimaPro, Smart Plant Electrical

Mathematica, Matlab, Simulink, System Modeler, RS Logix (PLC)

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

FAMILIAR WITH CODES & STANDARDS

NEC/NFPA 70E

IEEE Std. 242 – Protection and Co-ordination of Industrial and commercial Power Systems

IS 325 - Three Phase Induction Motors, IS 7098 – Cables, IS 2309 – Lightning Protection, IS 3043 – Earthing (Grounding)

IEEE C37.2/IEC 617 – Relay Symbols and Device numbers

IS 2026 – Power Transformer

IEEE 399 – Power System Analysis

ADDENDUM

MASTERS DEGREE ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Subject: Power System Transients - Transient effects of capacitor bank switching Spring, 2016 Description: Transient voltages and inrush currents due to single/back to back capacitor bank switching was demonstrated on ATP software. Other effects like voltage magnification on the distribution end; transient recovery voltage and outrush current due to external faults was obtained. This helped to determine the current limiting reactor rating.

Subject: Power System Dynamics & Stability - Effect of Loss of Load & Fault clearing time on Synchronous

Machine Dynamics and stability of system Fall, 2014 Description: Dynamic simulation and analysis of Synchronous Machine simulated on Matlab to demonstrate the effect of Loss of load from the bus on machine dynamics and critical clearing time during three phase fault was determined.

Subject: Power Systems Protection and Relaying - CT Saturation Phenomena and Distance Relay Protection

setting with lab testing of 311L SEL relay Spring, 2015 Description: Performed Load flow analysis on Matlab to obtain the actual bus voltages and fault level, setting of distance relay was done on ASPEN, the relay settings were fed into the 311L SEL Relay.

Subject: Advance Methods in Power System Analysis – Impact of Solar Power Integration Fall, 2014 Description: Performed Load Flow, Short Circuit and Harmonic analysis using Cyme software to analyse the effect of solar generation into the existing power system. This demonstrated that the solar plants do not contribute significantly towards short circuit while it increases the harmonics content into the grid.

Subject: Advanced Power Electronics - Designing of Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) Fall, 2014 Description: Designed Proportional and Integral controller (PI) based MPPT of Solar Photovoltaic applications on System Modeler software. The project demonstrated that the MPPT worked on the principle of Thevenin’s maximum power transfer theorem and satisfied the equation for maximum power transfer.

Subject: Advanced Power Electronics - DC Bus Voltage Control based on PI controlled DC-DC Converter design

Fall, 2014 Description: Designed & simulated two unequal voltage sources in parallel, connected to variable load. Voltage sources were controlled using PI controlled DC-DC converter in such a way that the DC bus voltage remains within +/- 10% limit.

Subject: Energy Storage Systems - Micro-Grid design for Electrical Engineering Research Centre Building of

Michigan Tech University Spring, 2015 Description: Designed a model on Simulink with solar powered load and energy storage during which calculations for sizing of Valve Regulated Lead Acid Battery was done based on the load requirement and autonomy hours

Subject: Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Assessment of Heterojunction Monocrystalline Amorphous Solar Module

Vs. Polycrystalline Solar Module Fall, 2015 Description: This project aimed at performing the life cycle assessment of two solar technologies and comparing their energy demand during each life cycle stages. Through this project, it was found that the Czochralski process in mono crystalline results in higher energy demand in case of heterojunction solar modules as compared to equivalent polycrystalline solar modules. Hence, Continuing with polycrystalline is a sustainable solution.

Subject: Wind Power - Impact of Wind Power integration Fall, 2015 Description: The integration of DFIG type 50 MW wind plant into the IEEE 14 Bus system was studied using load flow analysis tool on CYME. This project demonstrates how the reactive power compensating capability of DFIG wind turbine reduces with reduced wind plant output which demands the use of a capacitor for a wind plant.

BACHELOR DEGREE ACADEMIC PROJECT

Subject: Automation - Multi-Application Control Using Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) 2011-12 Description: It involved controlling various processes like bottle filling process, temperature control and level detectors using PLC. For that purpose, ladder logic diagram was built and executed on RSLogix Software to control these processes.