Aaqil Firaas

I am a passionate and dedicated individual who believes in continuous learning and developing technical skills for personal development and a rewarding career. I am adaptable, resilient and a good communicator striving to be a well rounded technologist to bring about tangible and positive changes in and around me.

Constantly looking to self-upgrade and become a better version of myself.

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1. Postgraduate Final Project

Title: Wear behaviour of oxidised indefinite chill roll material using water-based nano lubricant

Location: University of Wollongong (UOW), Wollongong, Australia

Duration: August 2022 to June 2023

Brief Description:

• To prepare water-based lubricants containing TiO2 nanoparticles for hot steel rolling.
• Examining the coefficient of friction in ball-on-disc tribological tests using the prepared lubricants.
• Investigating the effect of nanolubrication on the wear behaviour of the ball that represents the work roll material.
• Proposing the anti-wear mechanism of the oxidised indefinite chill roll material under water-based nanolubrication conditions.

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2. Undergraduate Research Project

Title: Study of Mechanical Properties of Ternary Borides

Location: Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, TN, India

Duration: January to May, 2019

Brief Description: Detailed investigation of phase purity, homogeneity, morphology, hardness and elastic modulus of boride samples.

Individual Role: Testing hardness and elastic modulus by nanoindentation, X-Ray Diffraction to determine phase purity of samples, data acquisition and graphical representations for further analysis and reporting.

Tools/Machines Used: X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), nanoindentation machine, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), Origin (for graphical representation), Latex (for documentation)

• Australian Workplace Career Program, University of Wollongong (UOW) – August 2023
• NSW Government Virtual Internship Program, Forage – August 2023
• Study Australia Industry Experience Program (SAIEP), Australian Government – April 2023
• Invest in Yourself - Exploring Money and Self Employment, Sydney School of Entrepreneurship – Dec 2022
• Mechanical Engineering Virtual Experience (Engineers Australia), Prosple – Dec 2022
• MATLAB Onramp, MathWorks – Oct 2022
• Certified Solidworks Associate (CSWA), Udemy – Sep 2020
• Introduction to Solidworks, Udemy, – Sep 2020
• PH125.8x: Data Science: Machine Learning, HarvardX – Jul 2020
• Manufacturing of Composites, NPTEL – Sep 2018

Poster Presentation

Title: Mechanical properties of perovskite-type RRh3B (R=rare earth) compounds

• Poster presented in 5th International Conference on Nanostructuring by Ion Beams (ICNIB 2019), November 6-8, 2019, IGCAR, Kalpakkam
• Received certificate of participation

• Certification of Participation from International Conference on Nanostructuring by Ion Beams (ICNIB-2019) for Poster Presentation on Mechanical Properties of Perovskite-type RRh3B (R=Rare Earth) Compounds.
• Certificate of Appreciation from AARUUSH (National Level Techno-Management and Cultural, Multi-University Fest), SRM IST, September 2017 for notable contribution as Head of Quality Assurance Committee (QAC) in organising the fest.
• Certificate of Participation from AARUUSH, SRM IST, November 2016 for membership in Quality Assurance Committee.

• 5th International Conference on Nanostructuring by Ion Beams (ICNIB-19), IGCAR, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, November 6-8, 2019
• Workshop on Additive Manufacturing and its implications, SRM IST, Kattankulathur, Chennai, January 25, 2019
• Workshop on Experimental Vibration, SRM IST, Chennai, September 7-8, 2018
• National Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (NCAME), SRM IST, Chennai, October 30-31, 2017
• International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), SRMIST, Chennai, May 5-6, 2017