Contact Information

Status: Master's Student in Mechanical Engineering Office: Manufacturing Research Center (MaRC), Room 266                            Georgia Institute of Technology 813 Ferst Drive, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405 Phone: (404) 894-#### Fax:      (404) 894-9342 Email:   ashah61@mail.gatech.edu URL:     www.srl.gatech.edu/Members/ashah

Research Interests

I am interested in the integration of design tools and methods between the different engineering domains. This also involves the increasing use of models during the project lifecycle process, known as model-based engineering. From a systems engineering perspective, one of the tools that can be used is SysML, which forms a part of my current research.

Currently, my research involves investigating the applicability of constraint satisfaction solvers to algebraic system models and catalogs of components to provide the designer with potential solutions early in the design phase. These solutions can then be used as a guide when conducting more complex analyses and simulations on particular alternatives. An important part of this research will be to automate this process by integrating a solver such as GAMS within SysML to reduce the burden on the designer.

Publications

Conference Papers

• Shah, Aditya A., Schaefer, Dirk, Paredis, Chris (2009) "Enabling Multi-View Modeling with SysML Profiles and Model Transformations" in International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, July 6-8 2009, University of Bath, UK (pdf)
• Shah, Aditya A., V. Prajapati, P. Patel, A. Pandey (2007) "Development of Pulsed Power DC Supply for Micro EDM" in UGC National Conference on Advances in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (NCACIM) Jodhpur, India (pdf)

Awards

• NSF/ASME Design Essay Award at ASME IDETC 2009 Conference (San-Diego): "Achieving Success in 2030: Identifying Characteristics and Challenges for a Global High-Tech Manufacturing Enterprise" (essay) (poster)
  

Class Reports

• A. Shah, Fall 2008, "Design of a Competitive Self Contained Trash Compactor", ME6105: Modeling and Simulation in Design, Final Project Report, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Project Web Site
  
• A. Shah, Fall 2008, "Domain Specific Modeling of an ECAD System", ISYE8813: Systems Modeling in SysML, Final Project Report, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Master of Science Thesis

• Your Thesis

Other Information

I am interested in mechatronics as well as software programming.  I am an avid reader, both fiction and non-fiction.  I like to travel and recently visited China and Hong Kong as part of an internship. A hardware remote control resulted from the internship and the resulting software used to control PC applications like Winamp and Powerpoint are available from sourceforge.net at: