Harshini S R

I am Harshini S R, I hail from a small rural town Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. I hold a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from NIT Trichy class of 2022. I am a passionate climate enthusiast, with an ardent desire to serve the community using my education. I am a researcher with an interest in venturing into social entrepreneurship to combat climate change and achieve sustainable developmental goals. I am a polyglot, who loves speaking many languages. I always consider books as my best friends, so I am a voracious reader which makes me a bibliophile too.

Prerna Baranwal, Eugene Rotherama, Simran Mardhani, Harshini S R, Diya Jose, Oussema Jouini, Vineel Judson, Bhoopathi Sai Naik Eslavath, Alexander Hope Ferdinand Ferguson, Joshit Mohanty, Hamed Gamal, Alison Waterman, Daniel Wischert, Analysis of Space Debris Mitigation and Removal Techniques for Small Satellites in Low Earth Orbit in Purview of the Guidelines Issued by the FCC. As a part of the (SGAC) Space Generation Advisory Council's Small Satellites Project Group. I worked on a remote International team project, which was published as a conference paper at the 74th International Astronautical Congress held in Baku, Azerbaijan. I contributed majorly to the Active debris removal (ADR) method and research sub-topics like the Re-entry of Space objects into Earth's atmosphere, the Acceleration of natural spacecraft decay, and Space debris mitigation laws and policies. I was involved in tasks like presentation-making, conducting in-depth literature surveys on the above-mentioned research sub-topics, and devising
several analytical approaches.                                                                           Feb 2023 – Oct 2023                     

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT)                                  Feb 2022 –May 2022 

Final year project thesis

• Vortex-induced vibration of circular cylinder suspended using springs in a subsonic wind tunnel:
  Under the guidance of Dr. Kaushik, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Strouhal number of a circular cylinder was measured experimentally by varying the velocity of the free stream air inside the wind tunnel, the air is made to pass around the circular cylinder, which was attached to low stiffness springs inside the test section.
• Studied the change in behavior of the oscillating cylinder, when its vortex is being disturbed using another bluff body kept at a certain distance from the center of the vibration-induced cylinder.

President                                                                                                              June 2021–May 2022

• Led a 41-member club that has domains like Aero and Tronix. Led various teams and sub-teams to win in major national-level competitions like AT-VTOLA IITB, Albatross NITC, Sangam NITT
• Defined strategic objectives and provided actionable feedback to teams
• Coordinated with the various sub-teams and formulated the action plans to achieve various events
• Executed decisions to maintain the unity, work ethics, and morale among the members, was instrumental in growing the club in its core expertise, financially and culturally