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Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi

Shaurya Agarwal

Mechanical Engineer building intelligent engineering systems.

I'm a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at IIT Delhi who enjoys understanding how things work — breaking down complexity, learning by building, and questioning assumptions along the way.

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About

Engineering, from first principles

I'm a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at IIT Delhi who enjoys understanding how things work.

Whether it's a physical system, a design problem, or a computational model, I'm interested in the process of breaking down complexity, understanding the underlying principles, and building solutions that work in practice.

I enjoy exploring ideas across disciplines and learning by building, testing, and questioning assumptions. For me, engineering is less about finding answers and more about understanding why those answers make sense.

Understand first. Build second.

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Selected Work

Engineering projects

Problems I've spent real time on — a race car's battery pack, a drone that lands itself, a chimney that runs quieter.

Formula Student · Axlr8r Racing

EV Battery Pack & Enclosure

I was Senior Engineer on Axlr8r Formula Racing's battery team, leading a group of 60+ people through the full build of our EV pack — from cell characterization and cycle testing, to designing a 2,150-part battery enclosure on SolidWorks, to wire-bonding busbars and building a custom BMS. We manufactured and integrated the finished 400V, 7.8kWh pack, 17% lighter than the year before, and coordinated our 3D-printing sponsorships along the way. It all came together at Formula Bharat 2025, where we placed 5th in the EV category.

SolidWorksManufacturing3D PrintingCell Testing
Research

Battery Digital Twin

A Python model that tracks how a cell degrades, charges, and heats up over time, checked against PyBaMM. Used it with ANSYS Fluent to rework the pack's cooling and cut power draw by 38%.

PythonPyBaMMANSYS Fluent
Autonomous VehiclesIn progress

Self-Driving Perception & Control

CNNs for lane and sign detection, plus EKF and MPC for trajectory tracking. Also ran a behavioral-cloning model over 10,000+ driving frames to see how well it could predict steering from video alone.

OpenCVCNNEKFMPC
Product Design · Internship

Silent Chimney & Hybrid Cooktop

Interned at Isler Infra redesigning kitchen chimneys for noise. Tested acoustic fixes that cut noise by 5–9dB, then designed and built a hybrid cooktop prototype from scratch.

DFMAAcousticsPCB Integration
Thermal Systems · CarrierIn progress

CO2 Refrigeration & Thermal Storage

Simulating a transcritical CO2 supermarket refrigeration system paired with ice-water thermal storage. Sizing the heat exchangers and running real load profiles to shave peak demand.

EESHeat Exchanger DesignThermal Storage
Autonomous Systems

Autonomous UAV Landing

Trained DQN and PPO agents to land a drone under gravity and fuel constraints, then benchmarked them against classical controllers across 20 test environments.

PyTorchReinforcement LearningGymnasium
Machine Learning

Acoustic Metamaterial Design

Trained ML models on 10,000+ COMSOL simulations to predict how unit-cell geometry affects sound transmission loss — accurate to within 0.33dB, and fast enough to run in reverse for design.

COMSOLXGBoostMachine Learning

My Journey

Experience

  1. 2023

    B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

    IIT Delhi

    • Began undergrad at IIT Delhi — mechanics, thermodynamics, and design fundamentals.

  2. 2024

    Axlr8r Formula Racing

    Executive · Formula Student Team

    • Led a 60-person team (4 coordinators, 10 executives, 50+ trainees) building the car's battery and electrical systems.
    • Wrote the SOPs, BOMs, and DFMEA reports that got the car through technical scrutiny.

  3. 2025

    Formula Bharat 2025

    Axlr8r Formula Racing · Independent Research

    • Designed and built our 400V, 7.8kWh battery pack — 17% lighter, 5th place in the EV category at Formula Bharat 2025.
    • Trained reinforcement-learning agents to land a drone autonomously and benchmarked them against classical controllers.
    • Won a ₹2,00,000 research grant and kicked off a Carrier-sponsored CO2 refrigeration project.

  4. 2026

    New Product Development Intern

    Isler Infra · Independent Research

    • Interned at Isler Infra, redesigning a kitchen chimney and building a hybrid cooktop from scratch.
    • Working on perception and control for self-driving cars, plus an ML model that predicts acoustic metamaterial performance.
    • TA'd Thermodynamics; placed 3rd in a campus brake-pedal design competition.

Skills

Tools I reach for

A working toolkit spanning simulation, scientific computing, and the software that turns a model into something real.

Engineering

CFD
Heat Transfer
Thermodynamics
Battery Systems
DFMA
Vehicle Dynamics

Languages

Python
MATLAB
C++

Software

ANSYS Fluent
SolidWorks
COMSOL

Contact

Let's talk engineering

Always open to discussing engineering, research, and interesting ideas.

agarwalshaurya7@gmail.com+91 88009 15770LinkedInGitHub