Rohan Gokhale — Mechanical Design Engineer
Pune, Maharashtra
Mechanical design engineer with two years on powertrain brackets and sheet-metal assemblies for commercial vehicles. Redrew an eleven-part bracket family onto three common blanks, cutting machining time 34% and removing ₹18 lakh of annual scrap. Designs in SolidWorks and Siemens NX with GD&T applied to ASME Y14.5.
Experience
Design Engineer, Drishaan Mobility Systems · August 2025 – present
Chassis and powertrain mounting group of six, supplying two commercial-vehicle OEM programmes.
- Redesigned a family of eleven engine-mount brackets onto three common blanks, cutting machining time 34% and removing ₹18 lakh of annual scrap.
- Ran topology optimisation on a gearbox cross-member in Ansys, taking 2.3 kg per vehicle out of the part while holding the 1.8 mm deflection limit.
- Closed 47 supplier drawing queries in twelve months by rewriting datum schemes that three vendors had each read differently.
- Built the first reusable fastener and hardware library in the group, taking a new bracket model from two days to four hours.
Graduate Engineer Trainee, Ketara Precision Works · July 2024 – July 2025
- Detailed 120 sheet-metal parts for a bus-body programme and corrected the bend allowances that had caused 9 of the first 30 flat patterns to be rejected.
- Reduced die-change downtime on a press line 22% by standardising locator pin heights across four progressive tools.
- Wrote the drawing-release checklist the design office adopted; drawings returned for rework fell from 18% to 5%.
Projects
- Regenerative Suspension Damper — Final-year project: an electromagnetic damper that recovers energy from suspension travel.
- SUPRA SAEINDIA — Chassis Subsystem — Two seasons on the university formula team, owning the tubular space-frame chassis.
Education
- B.Tech Mechanical Engineering · COEP Technological University · August 2020 – June 2024
Skills
- CAD & drafting: SolidWorks, Siemens NX, AutoCAD, GD&T (ASME Y14.5), Sheet-metal design, Tolerance stack-up
- Analysis: Ansys Mechanical, Static & modal FEA, Topology optimisation, Hand calculations
- Manufacturing: Press tooling, CNC machining, Weld fixtures, DFM reviews, PPAP documentation
Certifications
- Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) — Dassault Systèmes
- GD&T Fundamentals (ASME Y14.5-2018) — ASME
