MSc Aerospace Vehicle Design · Newell Prize · Cranfield University

Vikram
Pratap Singh

Mechanical & Aerospace Design Engineer with 8+ years at Honda, Suzuki & Aerotrope, taking products from concept to validated prototype. Today I augment that experience with AI — building tools that automate the repetitive parts of engineering and cut design-cycle workload dramatically.

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CATIA V5 Siemens NX SolidWorks ANSYS Workbench NASTRAN / PATRAN OpenFOAM CFD GD&T & DFM Composite Layups Python & Automation AI-Assisted Tooling Cloud Deployment CATIA V5 Siemens NX SolidWorks ANSYS Workbench NASTRAN / PATRAN OpenFOAM CFD GD&T & DFM Composite Layups Python & Automation AI-Assisted Tooling Cloud Deployment

About Me

Engineer · Innovator · Award Winner

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Mechanical & Aerospace Design Engineer with 8+ years driving products from concept to validated prototype — from the structural design of the flagpoles at JPMorgan Chase's New York headquarters to Suzuki's first sunroof (leading a team of 5), eVTOL aircraft and cryogenic hydrogen tanks — with an MSc from Cranfield University (Newell Prize, top of cohort) and 2 patents. What sets me apart today is how I work: I build my own AI-assisted tools that automate the slow, repetitive parts of the design cycle, so I deliver more, faster, with the same rigour.

I'm a design and development engineer at heart — CAD, FEA, CFD, GD&T, and the discipline of turning a requirement into a manufacturable, validated product. That's the work I love and the roles I'm targeting in mechanical and aerospace.

What makes me unusually effective is that I build tools to do the tedious work for me. Using AI-assisted development I've created real, working engineering applications that compress tasks which used to take specialists days into jobs anyone can run in minutes — the kind of automation that removes up to 80% of the manual effort from an analysis loop.

The proof is live and hands-on. DFDC Cloud turns a legacy command-line aerodynamics solver into a one-click web tool. CFD Studio puts an early-stage wind-tunnel check in the browser. An employer gets an engineer who not only does the work, but continuously makes the whole team faster.

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Cranfield University, UK

MSc Aerospace Vehicle Design · 82%+ · Newell Prize Winner

Honda · Suzuki · Aerotrope

8+ years automotive BIW & aerospace structural design · led teams of 5

2 Patents Held

Solar e-rickshaw design · Roof rail reinforcement — Maruti Suzuki

Augmented by AI

Builds AI-assisted engineering tools that automate design tasks and cut manual workload by up to 80%

What I Do

Core engineering discipline · sharpened by AI-assisted tooling

Design & CAD

Parametric product design in CATIA V5, Siemens NX & SolidWorks — from automotive BIW structures to full aircraft assemblies

Simulation & Analysis

Structural, modal, fatigue & buckling analysis in ANSYS Workbench; aerodynamics with Fluent, OpenFOAM & XFLR5

Manufacturing & GD&T

Tolerance & stack-up analysis, design for manufacturing, and structural analysis for production-ready parts

AI-Assisted Automation

Builds custom tools with AI that automate meshing, solving & reporting — turning specialist, days-long tasks into minutes

Engineering, Automated with AI

My edge: I build tools that take the grind out of the design cycle

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less manual engineering effort. These are real, working tools I built with AI-assisted development — collapsing specialist, multi-day analysis setups into jobs anyone on the team can run in minutes.
DFDC Cloud — ducted fan design web tool
Aerospace AI-Assisted Build Live

DFDC Cloud — Ducted-Fan Design Tool

Before: DFDC, a specialist aerospace solver, ran only as a 40-year-old command-line program each engineer had to install and wrestle with locally. After: a clean web tool anyone can open in a browser and run in one click — same trusted solver, with an AI assistant to explain inputs and results. Design iterations that meant fighting the toolchain now take minutes.

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CFD Studio — browser aerodynamics tool
Aerodynamics AI-Assisted Build

CFD Studio — Early-Stage Aero in the Browser

Before: an early aerodynamics check meant a CFD specialist, manual meshing and days of case setup. After: upload a 3D model and the tool auto-meshes it, runs an OpenFOAM solve and returns drag/lift numbers with a pressure-mapped 3D view — a first-pass answer in minutes, freeing specialists for the analysis that truly needs them.

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Resume

Full career history at Honda, Suzuki & Aerotrope — plus education & key achievements

Projects

Engineering case studies — eVTOL, LH₂ tanks, sunroof & more — plus my AI-assisted tools

Contact

Discuss opportunities, collaborations, or engineering projects. Based in Brighton, UK

About & FAQ

Quick facts about Vikram Pratap Singh

Who is Vikram Pratap Singh?

Vikram Pratap Singh is a Mechanical & Aerospace Design Engineer based in Brighton, United Kingdom, with more than eight years of experience. He has worked on automotive body structures at Honda and Maruti Suzuki, and on aircraft and wind-energy structures at Aerotrope. He holds an MSc from Cranfield University (Newell Prize) and two patents.

What does he specialise in?

Structural analysis and product design: static, modal, fatigue and buckling analysis in ANSYS Workbench and MSC NASTRAN, with CAD in CATIA V5, Siemens NX and SolidWorks, and CFD in ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM.

What has he built with AI?

He builds AI-assisted engineering tools. DFDC Cloud puts a legacy ducted-fan aerodynamics solver on the web, and CFD Studio runs an early-stage aerodynamics check in the browser. Both are live at connectvikram.com/DFDC and connectvikram.com/CFD.

Where is he based and how can you contact him?

He is based in Brighton, United Kingdom, and is open to mechanical and aerospace engineering roles. Contact: vikramjuly13@gmail.com, or through the contact page on this site.