Department of Aeronautical Engineering (AE)

Sakshar Chowdhury

Teaching Assistant, Department of Aeronautical Engineering (AE)

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) , Dhaka, Bangladesh

(Feb-2018 - April 2022)               

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Aeronautical Engineering (Aerospace)

CGPA: 3.83/4.00 (Merit position-3rd in the class and 1st among the boys)

Awards & Honors: Dean List of Honor 2021 (For achieving overall CGPA >= 3.80); University Merit Scholarship (2019-2020);

Sylhet Cadet College, Sylhet, Bangladesh

(Jan 2016 - Dec 2017)                                                                                                                                           

Higher Secondary School Certificate

GPA: 5.00/5.00 (Merit Position-Stood 8th in Sylhet Education Board)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant

Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)

Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh

Duration: August 2022 - Present  

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

  • Collaboration with Group Captain Atul Golani, Senior Instructor (Foreign faculty), Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Military Institute of Science Technology for Design and Fabrication of Target Drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for testing Air Defense System.
  • Collaboration with Group Captain Atul Golani, Senior Instructor (Foreign faculty), Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Military Institute of Science Technology for Identification, Integration and Testing of Autopilot and Avionic Equipment in a fixed-wing (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Target Drone for testing Air Defense System.
  • James Webb Space Telescope Origami Design under the supervision of Mohammad Zaman, Leader Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services.
  • Line Follower Robot and PID algorithm usage under the supervision of MIST Robotics Club.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Proficient at MATLAB and basic programming familiarity with C, C++, Arduino.
  • Skilled at performing simulations using Ansys.
  • Proficient at SOLIDWORKS.
  • Very good Presentation, Communication and Management Skills.
  • Skilled at Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
  • Research, Design thinking and product development.

PUBLICATIONS

1.Identification, Integration and Testing of Autopilot and Avionic Equipment in a Fixed Wing (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Target Drone for Testing Air Defense System in 1st Jamal Nazrul Islam National Conference for Young Researchers 2022.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Vice-President-MIST Aeronautics and Astronautics Club

MIST, Bangladesh (Feb 2020 - April 2022)

Senior Supervisor-MIST Robotics Club

MIST, Bangladesh (Sept 2020 - Feb 2022)

AWARDS and ACHIEVEMENTS

  1. NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2021-Champion (10/2021 - 11/2021)
  2. International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition 2021-Gold (05/2021 - 07/2021)
  3. Three-minute Thesis 2022-Special Award Winner (06/2021)
  4. MIST COIN 2020 (03/2020)
  5. Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award-*Silver-2017, *Bronze-2016 (01/2016 - 12/2017)
  6. MIST Robofest Competition-2018 (06/2018)
  7. National Innobotics Competition-2nd Runner-up (02/2020 - 02/2020)
  8. Solidwars Competition-Runner-up (06/2020 - 06/2020)

INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT

Industrial Trainee (Feb 2021 -  Mar 2021)

216 Maintenance Repair and Overhauling Unit, Bangladesh Air Force

  • To identify different maintenance and repair work
  • Learning Theoretical knowledge related to MI 17 series helicopter
  • Doing practical work related to MI 17 series helicopter

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Astrodynamics and Orbital Mechanics
  • Aerospace Vehicle design
  • Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Applied Aerodynamics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computational Structural Analysis