Shahid Ameen Khan

Experience

• Aircraft Structures Engineer Leap Aeronautics · Full-time Aug 2019 – Present 5 yrs 3 mos Bengaluru, KA, India - Working on the design of 5-Seater electric VTOL aircraft.
  - Designed and built 3 subscale aircraft prototypes to test the proof of concept.
  
  - Working on preliminary design and structural hand calculations (static) of aircraft structures (wing, fuselage, and horizontal and vertical tail).
  
  - Developed Python codes to compute the bending stresses and shear flows in the wing, horizontal tail, and vertical tail.
  
  - Developed Python codes to size the aircraft structural components for carbon fiber composite materials based on the classical laminate theory of composites.
• Design Engineering Intern Gloinnt Solutions Pvt. Ltd. · Full-time Mar 2019 – Aug 2019 5 mos Bengaluru, KA, India • Designed a low-cost e-bike having 33% more range than the existing products in the same segment in the market.
  • Contributed to the project: ‘Airport Baggage Handling Systems (BHS)’
  • Performed structural analysis on the ‘Aircraft Simulator’ using ANSYS 18.0
  • Learned the importance of GD&T, ANSI and ISO Standards in the engineering drawings.
  • Performed structural analysis using Hypermesh and ANSYS and optimized the frame of the bicycle.