Pradyumna Mangal

Experience

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  Mehta Tubes Ltd.

  Apr 2018 - Apr 2018

  Trainee

  Studied and performed various destructive and non destructive tests on various specimen mostly made of but not limited to Copper alloys manufactured by the company and experienced the role of quality control in an enterprise.

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  Defence Avionics Research Establishment

  Apr 2019 - May 2019

  Internship Trainee

  In the 40 days role as an intern in the institute, got exposure to the control theory applied in real systems and especially in aircraft systems and simulation and finally studied and constructed a climbing and descending control system and autopilot for a modern transport Jet aircraft.

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  VELLON SPACE

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2021

  Mission design and Space Dynamics intern

  Designed Launch vehicles with mass ratios, their trajectories and the required controls for different space missions.Extensive research on atmospheric and space flight modelling and simulations using tools like MATLAB, Simulink, and GMAT (NASA).

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  TATA Advanced Systems Limited

  Sept 2021 - Jul 2022

  Flight Dynamics and Control Engineer

  Worked in the Airborne platforms and systems division, as Flight control systems Engineer.System Identification: Performed data compatibility test on flight data to determine instrumentation bias and errors to estimate the aerodynamic derivatives of MALE UAV.Autopilot development: Implemented waypoint navigation and contributed to the controller development for Small UAVs. Performed flight analysis to analyze the aircraft's performance.Morphing Wing Aircraft: Working in the design and development of Hand-launched UAV to perform deep stall landing and developed mechanism to change its wing geometry. Show less

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  Aeronautical Development Agency

  Aug 2022 - Jul 2024

  Aircraft Performance Engineer