Mr Apurva Patil

Apurva Patil is the Research Assistant at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia. He graduated from his Master of Engineering degree with the specialisation in Telecommunications in 2016. Also, obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Mumbai, India in 2015 and the same degree has been accredited by Engineers Australia.

As time went on, Apurva has developed expertise in research. Apurva has undertaken research leading to the development and demonstration of Wi-Fi control of heliostats, designed and manufactured the single and dual axis Wi-Fi control solar tracker. He built a working dual axis scale model – ‘POWER FLOWER’ and designed a control system for it. As a part of Heliostat-SA Project Team, Apurva has received Research Excellence: Industry and Academic Impact and Uptake Award from Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment – 2017 for the research achievement in an area of strategic importance to the University of South Australia.

He is currently working on hard-coating process development for the bare polycarbonate to protect it and characterisation of the thin film hard-coatings on polycarbonate for extended performance. Also, he focuses on making the coating process automatic by designing and developing automated process engineering.

Qualifications

• Master of Engineering (Telecommunications) University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Engineering University of Mumbai