Rahul
Venkatesh Dev
M.S. Structural Engineering Candidate, UC San Diego — Steel Connection Design
Graduate student in structural engineering at UC San Diego, building on professional experience designing steel connections for American construction projects at SANRIA Engineering. Background spans seismic lateral-force design, BIM modeling, and connection-design automation — grounded in civil engineering fieldwork across highway, metro, and bridge infrastructure in India.
Education
S1.0University of California, San Diego
3.566 / 4.00
Maharaja Institute of Technology
8.86 / 10.00
Experience
S2.0BIM and engineering-software services for structural steel connection design, preconstruction planning, estimation, and risk management.
- Designed steel connections using DesconBrace, DesconWin, and RAM Standalone for American construction projects.
- Interpreted contracts, developed test cases, and finalized connection designs — presenting deliverables directly to clients.
NH-17 six-laning project, Neeleshwaram–Thaliparambha section, executed under the Bharatmala Pariyojna on a Hybrid Annuity Mode.
- Rotated through Planning & QS, Survey, Highways, Bridges, and QA/QC.
- Gained on-site exposure to infrastructure delivery and quality-control protocols for large-scale highway construction.
RVNL implements fast-track rail infrastructure projects under the Ministry of Railways.
- Studied design and construction of sub- and super-structures for a metro-rail project.
- Observed casting and launching of precast girders, alongside on-site safety and quality-control measures.
Projects
S3.0Advance Structural Steel Design — SCBF, BRBF & SMF
Full lateral-force design of SCBF, BRBF, and SMF systems for a Los Angeles commercial structure, per ASCE 7 and AISC 341 — seismic demand calculations resolved into component designs balancing economy with required ductility and energy dissipation.
Design of Steel Plate Girder Bridges
Analyzed impact loads on steel plate girders for metro-rail locomotion using analytical software; finalized the plate-girder design across a 10 km span with intermediate supports at 40 m centers.
Extensive Survey
20-day field expedition supported by MIT Mysuru, covering highway, old-tank, new-tank, and layout-planning surveys — core fieldwork practice for infrastructure development.
Research
S4.0Connection Design Automation Tool
- Actively developing an automation tool that extracts geometric data directly from 3D structural steel models.
- The module recommends the most economical, viable connection combinations — beam-to-column, bracing junctions, and similar member joints.
- Goal: hold to industry standards while significantly reducing manual design time spent on member joints — demonstrating both process automation and cost-effective structural output.
Skills
S5.0| Mark | Category | Items |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Graphic Software | |
| 02 | Analysis & Interpretation Software | |
| 03 | Programming & Computation |