Design Engineer / Mechanical Systems
I design mechanical systems from the engine block outward, then think about how they are modeled, manufactured, costed, improved, and experienced.
Auto Components
Engine Systems
3D Modeling
Industrial Design
3D Printing
Aerospace
Product Cost
This version frames Kaustubh as a design engineer who can move from mechanical geometry to manufacturing constraints, cost realities, aerospace analysis, 3D printing experiments, and product-facing design thinking.
Project renders and company-specific examples can be added later without revealing confidential drawings, costs, supplier data, or proprietary details.
This section can stay high-level for confidentiality while still showing the breadth of the work.
Working around engine-block systems, packaging constraints, fit, function, serviceability, and manufacturable geometry.
Turning requirements into CAD models, design revisions, drawings, and production-aware decisions.
Thinking through material choices, process limits, assembly realities, tolerance impact, and iteration cost.
Looking at how products are made, how costs move, and how design choices connect to product finances.
Constraints, interfaces, failure modes, users, assembly, and cost signals.
CAD, packaging, surface transitions, mechanical geometry, and design intent.
3D prints, prototypes, fixtures, samples, revisions, and practical testing.
Material, manufacturing process, cycle time, scrap, margin, and tradeoffs.
Placeholder case study for mechanical components designed around engine-block systems, packaging interfaces, manufacturing needs, and cost implications.
Feed-system design work connecting thrust requirements, fluid delivery, thermal concerns, and calculation-driven tradeoffs.
MATLAB tool for non-ideal ramjet and scramjet flow-path studies with a fixed-geometry converging nozzle.
Placeholder for functional prints, printer upgrades, prototypes, fixtures, failed experiments, and lessons from additive design.
IoT-enabled buoy for bathymetry and weather monitoring, including CAD work in PTC Creo and CFD simulations in ANSYS.
YOLOv5s-based model with multispectral attention and lightweight up-sampling, reaching 93.7% prediction accuracy.
This is where the site can feel personal: objects, forms, fixtures, printer mods, and design ideas that do not need to be corporate case studies.
Borrowing from industrial design: proportion, edge transitions, affordance, touchpoints, and how a part should feel.
Functional parts, experimental geometries, printer improvements, quick prototypes, and prints that teach design limits.
Fast ideation loops where loose visual ideas become modeled, measured, manufacturable forms.
A useful engineer sees more than geometry. This section can show how material choice, process selection, cycle time, scrap, assembly labor, supplier cost, and margin shape the final product.
These are review concepts, not necessarily final public content.
A workbench-style homepage: CAD viewports, print-bed experiments, engine-component callouts, and cost-sheet fragments arranged like a living desk.
A scroll story that moves from sketch to CAD to prototype to manufacturing cost, showing how design ideas become real products.
A technical hero centered on an abstract engine block, with orbiting interests: auto components, aerospace, 3D printing, industrial design, and economics.
Component design, packaging, CAD, GD&T, manufacturability, engine-adjacent systems, and production context.
Propulsion, thermal engineering, CFD, FEA, structural and dynamic modeling, and system sizing.
Python-based modeling, computer vision, data analysis, notebooks, and technical automation.
Kaustubh pairs graduate-level aerospace work at Arizona State University with hands-on mechanical design, current automotive component work, additive-manufacturing curiosity, and entrepreneurial experience.
Automotive components, engine-adjacent mechanical design, product and cost awareness.
Master's in Aerospace Engineering, Tempe, Arizona.
Founded an e-commerce website and an engineering community with 2,000+ members.
Blog posts do not need to be the headline. They can sit here as a personal archive for writing, observations, and technical notes.
A future post on material choice, manufacturing process, and why tiny geometry decisions can become business decisions.
Notes from prints, failures, tolerances, and the weirdly honest feedback of the build plate.
A small reading list and visual library for form, interaction, serviceability, and product feel.