UROP Student Profile - Preshit Tambey
Preshit is currently working on a project investigating the exposure of virtualization and cloud computing systems in information technology services used primarily in academia. As a second year student with UROP, he has also been involved in a project examining flow dynamics.
Meet Preshit:
| Please describe your UROP project. |
| I am investigating erosion in a 90 degree elbow bend. I am using software programs such as Fluent and Gambit to create and analyze these models. I am working with three other people on this project. Our job is to create a virtual elbow and analyze it to determine erosion if the particles are flown at a certain velocity. I am an Engineering Science major and my faculty advisor is Dr. Quamrul Mazumder. |
| How did you get involved in research? |
| This is the first time I am getting involved in a research project. I was always interested in research programs because I wanted to have an experience using the powerful software which are used in creating virtual diagrams. |
| How has participating in research impacted your education? |
| Participating in research has impacted a lot on me; it has taught me time management and qualities such as being patient and being optimistic. Sometimes if a method didn’t work for me after a long time, I would give up. However in this research project, the software I am currently working on didn’t work for at least continuous 2 weeks. But one day, it finally worked! So it has taught me a quality of not giving up quickly. |
| What has been the most satisfying aspect of your research experience? |
| My advisor is always there to help me if I am stuck. Generally if something doesn’t work well, the advisors tend to scold you but Dr. Mazumder was very kind to give me more time to work on it. Eventually his patience has paid off. The part which I am working on is working well. |
| What are your future plans? How has participating in research helped you in preparing for those future plans? |
| My future plans in education would be to get a degree from UM-Flint and then go on to gain a Masters degree in science. If I get another chance to get involved in a research project, then I would certainly do it again. Research has already had a strong impact on my resume because my major is engineering, so it is great for me to get involved in this type of research which will help me throughout my life. Getting exposure to software programs such as Gambit and Fluent is also great because these programs are not user friendly and there are very few people in the world who know how to run them effectively. So at a very young age I have started to learn something which is very demanding for the future. |