Vijay Anand Velmurugan is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at UIC specializing in Mechanical Design and Mechatronics. He has 2.5 years of experience as a design engineer at Volvo Group handling projects from concept to production. He has a proven track record of managing diverse, global projects for Volvo trucks. His portfolio highlights experience in product design and development, CAD software, finite element analysis, and cost improvement programs.

1. ENGINEERING PORTFOLIO
Vijay Anand Velmurugan
vvelmu2@uic.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayanandvelmurugan/
(312)439-8468

2. ■ Graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC) specializing in Mechanical Design and Mechatronics
■ Experienced design engineer with 2.5 years’ experience at Volvo Group from concept
generation to production, resolving supplier and production issues
■ Proven track record of handling projects in product development, design for both long
haul and construction trucks. Handled projects with diverse, cross functional teams
from around the globe within Volvo Group
■ Key member for Volvo’s cost improvement program (CIP) in Vehicle Engineering
Department
■ A master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering has helped further leverage my core
competencies

3. CORE COMPETENCIES
■ Product Design and Development
■ CAD design: CATIA V5/V6, Solidworks, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
(GD&T)
■ Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Design Failure Mode and
Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
■ Product Data Management: Enovia and Windchill
■ Design and Analysis: Finite Element Analysis (FEA), ANSYS, MATLAB/ SIMULINK,
SIGMA SAMS (Systematic Analysis of Mechanical Systems)
■ Product Cost Improvement
■ Computer Aided Manufacturing, CNC Programming
■ Programming Languages: C/C++, MATLAB
■ Mechatronics: Arduino programming, PID controllers, Micro controllers, DC Motor
■ Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Systems

4. • Product development, modification of vehicle front components for
UD brand Trucks (Quester and Croner)
• Single point of contact for Mack and Volvo US brand trucks for
maintenance activities. Slashed maintenance issues by 30%
UD Quester (heavy duty truck)
UD Croner (medium duty truck)
Vehicle front (Exterior of a truck)
Mack Truck
Volvo US Truck
Maintenance activities include
resolving production, assembly, design
and supplier issues

5. CAD DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
DESIGN OF SNOW SHOVEL FOR JEEP CHEROKEE
• The individual parts, assembly and validation of the snow shovel done in solidworks
• Snow shovel designed to clear 2-6 inches of snow from driveway
• Cost of snow shovel is estimated to be $450 well within the project budget of $500
• Decision making matrix used to evaluate various concepts of snow shovel before finalizing on the
current design
• Evaluated design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA)

6. CAD DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF 4040 ALUMINUM T- SLOT BRACKET
• Designed aluminum T-slot bracket, obtained deformed shape
under the loading conditions and analyzed the stresses that may
cause yielding (Von Mises Stress)
• The max. stress for yielding (Von Mises Stress) was found to be
well within the yield stress for aluminum

7. CAD DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
DESIGN, SIMULATION AND DEFORMATION ANALYSIS OF A PLANAR SLIDER CRANK MECHANISM
• Modelled a slider crank mechanism as a flexible connecting rod and a rigid connecting rod to study its
deformation
• Analyzed the motion of the slider block both as a flexible connecting rod and a rigid connecting rod
• Studied the various modal shapes of the connecting rod

8. ANALOG PID CONTROL USING OP-AMPS
• Built a PID circuit using OP-AMPS and tested its working using Arduino
• PID response against an input square signal analyzed
• In this project, Arduino used acts a micro-controller for the PID circuit