Raghu Varma Sagi
About Raghu Varma Sagi
Raghu Varma Sagi is a Technical / Project Team Lead at IHI (QuEST Global) in Bangalore, with extensive experience in aerospace engineering and computational fluid dynamics.
Company
Raghu Varma Sagi currently holds the position of Technical / Project Team Lead at IHI (QuEST Global) based in Bangalore.
Previous Employment at GE India Technology Center
From 2011 to 2016, Raghu Varma Sagi worked as a Lead Engineer at GE India Technology Center Pvt Ltd in the Bengaluru Area. His responsibilities included leading the validation of transient data for the complete GEnX-1B LPTR module, ensuring data match analysis, and suggesting novel ideas to improve temperature prediction accuracy during validation.
Previous Employment at Pratt & Whitney Canada
From 2008 to 2011, Raghu Varma Sagi was employed as an Aerospace Engineer at Pratt & Whitney Canada (Infotech Enterprises Ltd). During this period, he developed 3D models for the certification of the C-sump region and conducted mechanical analysis for life assessment and certification of 3D C-sump components.
Education and Expertise
Raghu Varma Sagi holds a Master of Science (MS) in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2006-2008). He also earned a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Thermal Engineering from Anna University (2003-2005) and completed a Mechanical Engineering degree at Andhra University (1998-2002).
Patent Filings
Raghu Varma Sagi has filed two patents: one for an impeller tube carrier arm design and another for a multi-slotted orifice plate. The impeller tube carrier arm design has been successfully implemented in GE engines.
Lean Six Sigma Study
Raghu Varma Sagi executed a Lean Six Sigma study that resulted in a 50% reduction in cycle time and generated savings of approximately $35,000.
Key Projects and Contributions
Raghu Varma Sagi developed a CFD 3D sector model for ISS cavity location, improved the quality of deliverables by creating the first project management plan at IHI, and worked on NC tasks for clearance assessment and DR tasks of LPT components.