Greetings, I am Karthik Dhanabalan (aka KD). I am an Aerospace Engineer with strong Research, Presentation, and Analytical skills demonstrated by 7+ years of experience in the Aerospace Industry. I am a Master's graduate in Aerospace Structures & Composites from McGill - Concordia joint Aerospace program in Canada. I am currently working as a Project Manager & Structures Engineer in the Aircraft Certification Engineering (ACE) Department at FLYHT Aerospace. I have demonstrated research experience from India and Canada, Few of my research projects include, Developing a low-cost novel subsonic Ramjet engine design using CFD, Fabricating the engine setup and Testing it with an alternate biofuel, Designing and Developing a natural composite plate using coconut Fibre and natural resin, Various graduate level projects involving stress analysis and vibrational analysis of composite structures. My long-term goal is to develop a Research organization that could provide innovative solutions to improve and economize Aircraft Structures & Gas Turbines. Apart from being an Aerospace Engineer and doing awesome stuff. I started volunteering from November 2015. I started applying for my Master's in Canada in the month of June 2015, By September 2015 I was already aware of the complete application process by researching websites and reaching out to professors & students in Canada. A few of my college juniors came to know that I had applied to Canadian Universities and they got in contact with me to evaluate their profile's so that I could suggest/classify universities for them. I started doing this for 10 more peeps, after initial calls with them they all had similar questions so I created a WhatsApp group and added all 10 to respond to their questions. The WhatsApp group reached its limit in 4 days and then I had to create 2 more groups to fit in others. Then in the month of January 2016, I received admits from all 4 universities to which I had applied for my Master's, and the group count increased to 5 already. It was difficult to answer the same question, again and again, and that's when I started this group Canadian Association for International Students (MEng / MASc / PhD / PGD) on Facebook. Now the group has 15k members, and I would happily say I should have mentored more than half the people in it. I am always passionate about research and developing new stuff in science. The research project that I did during my bachelor's thesis is my best work to date and seeing that my undergrad professors pass on my contact info to every final year student who is trying to do something innovative. I have been guiding a lot of students in their final year and have also collaborated with a few to help them to achieve in their research work.

My Mentoring Topics

• Project Management
• Leadership
• Team Management
• Guiding Students pursuing Masters in Engineering branches.
• Mentoring Students interested in Research.
• Mentoring New Graduates to get into the Industry.
• Guiding Students to apply for Higher Education in Canada.
• Evaluating SOP and CV for Higher Studies.
• Core Engineering Skill Development.
• Guiding New Grads from Aerospace, Mechanical and Electrical disciplines align their skill development according to the industry requirement and their area of interest.