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The "Engineering with Rubber" short course is designed for both engineering and nonengineering rubber industry professionals. It will provide the knowledge to understand rubber as an engineering material. The sessions in the course will focus on such varied subjects as linear and non-linear elasticity, design concepts applied to developing rubber components; besides providing an overall subject matter view of static and dynamic material and product testing.
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Shubham Kumawat is seeking an administrative job in research and development in the automobile industry. He has a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Roorkee and experience as a management trainee at Western Coalfields Limited and internships at JCB India Limited, Maruti Suzuki, and Kota Thermal Power Plant. His education included developing a test rig to evaluate hydrostatic thrust bearings, studying organic Rankine cycles, and earning good grades. He has skills in MS Office, C/C++, Autodesk Inventor, Matlab Simulink, and DS Solidworks and is fluent in English and Hindi.
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