My profile: ------------------------------------------- Name: Aarushi Bhargava Branch: Mechanical Field of Interest: Material Science, Fracture mechanics Degree Goal (MS/PhD): MS/PhD(preferable) UG Institute: BITS,Pilani (Pilani Campus), India CGPA/Percentage (Do not Convert to US Scale): 8.14(out of 10) Topper's Percentage (or GPA): Your rank in your class: top 25 -------------------------------------------- GRE: 324[ 157(verbal) + 167 (quant)] AWA -4.0 Toefl: Yet to take --------------------------------------------- Internships: (If applicable) 1) Hetero Drugs Ltd., India – Study of the Heat ventilation and air conditioning system necessary for manufacturing of pharmaceutical medicines( I don’t think this one is relevant) 2) National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore,India – Development of Ni-W-P ternary coatings on carbon fibers to obtain better electrical conductivity -------------------------------------------------- Submitted or Accepted Publications: 2 papers in progress Conference: N/A --------------------------------------------------------- Projects: (If applicable) 1) Thesis Project: Residual Life Assessment of Super-Heater Coils in Supercritical Thermal Power Plants due to Erosion by Fly-Ash and Oxide Scale Growth 2) Simulation of heat transfer in gas turbine blade (Elective Project) 3) Thermomechanical and creep analysis of a gas turbine blade(Elective Project) 4) Fem modelling and simulation of actuation of nanorobots (Elective project) --------------------------------------------------------- Recommendations: Any three of these 1) Associate Professor, BITS Pilnai (Strong) 2)Principal Research Scientist, NAL bangalore (Strong) 3)Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani (Moderate) 4) Assisant Professor, BITS Pilani -------------------------------------------------------- Shortlisted Universities · Northwestern University · University of California- Santa Barbara · Georgia tech · Purdue University—West Lafayette · University of florida · EPFL · Penn state · North carolina university · University of Pennsylvania · University of Washington · Boston University Rice university