Manish Chandra
About
Manish works in the following industries: "Semiconductors", "Renewables & Environment", "Research", "Oil & Energy", and "Automotive". Manish is currently Engineering Manager at Tesla. In Manish's previous role as a Engineering Manager at GlassPoint Solar, Manish worked in until Sep 2020. Prior to joining GlassPoint Solar, Manish was a Member of Technical Staff at Solyndra and held the position of Member of Technical Staff. Prior to that, Manish was a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Novellus Systems from Apr 2006 to Sep 2009. Manish started working as Lead Engineer at GE Energy in Jan 2001. From Jan 1998 to Jan 2001, Manish was Scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
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Manish Chandra's current jobs
Commercial Energy & Industrial Storage
Manish Chandra's past jobs
- Mechanical design and FEA of solar structure components like bearings, ribs, hangers, alignment jigs and fixtures, frames and platforms, machined, plastic & sheet metal components - Conceptual design and prototype testing of film house components. DFM study and optimization of solar structure components. - Perform various types of analysis like steady state and transient thermal analysis, stress, buckling, creep and fatigue analysis, pipe thermal expansion analysis, - Conceptual design and project management of next generation Thermal Energy Storage system - Managing a team of seven ME, EE and prototype engineers
Design and analysis of solar panel IV test equipment for Solyndra's next generation panels. - Mechanical Design and packaging of new Lamp and LED based IV measurement system - Designed various machined parts, alignment jigs and fixtures, performed FMEA and CIP projects as part of Fab 2 ramp up. Worked with overseas vendor on design of back end equipment for Fab 2
Design and analysis of mechanical equipment including packaging of static and dynamic components. Some of the salient projects include, - Design of Ar injection hardware, innovative UV resistance material and special cleaning methods that helped Novellus qualify G-XT tool at customer site. - Project lead for 12” source upgrade tool which got Novellus more than $1.5 million in revenue. - Worked on design of Wide Temperature pedestal for G400 tool which has stringent temperature uniformity requirement. Worked with FEA team in validation and optimization of design. Extensively used Pro-E in design activities.
Mechanical and thermal design of static and rotating turbine components. Activity involved performing structural, thermal and design optimization using commercial FEA software. - Thermal Design of 9H Stator Tube for all startup and shutdown cycle decks using ANSYS. - DOE study for 9H stator flange geometry optimization. - Investigation of thermal saw-cut effect on horizontal joint leakage. - Conduction analysis of Inner Turbine Shell using FEA. - Transient thermal analysis of 9H DLN combustors and development of error-proofing scripts using ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL).
Worked on packaging and design of heavy duty mechanical components. Design required extensive usage of CAD software for 3D modeling, assembly and finite element analysis. - Thermal design of various aircraft vision device mechanical components using commercial softwares like Ansys, IDEAS. - Automation of different steps involved in sighting system component analysis. - Generation of VB code to create a tool for carrying out DOE study.