Rahul Bhatia

Hello, I’m Rahul Bhatia, currently, a project engineer in Dallas, Texas. I design alternative fuel systems for gasoline powered vehicles so that they can also run off of compressed natural gas. I collaborate with a team of engineers to ensure the products we design are production friendly and provide good value for the company's customers. I strive to protect our good reputation and ensure our solutions are known for their quality and reliability. I challenge the team to raise-the-bar, break the norm, and evolve the standard.

I’ve been designing products since elementary school when I starting sketching out sports car designs for my own car fictional company, Bhatia Motors. Along the way, I dabbled in consumer electronics when I made design concepts for laptops and MP3 players. My passion for forward thinking ideas, intelligent design, and my desire to contribute to the environment around me drove me to pursue a career in mechanical engineering.

Starting off my career as a contract mechanical engineer exposed me to the aerospace, defense, controls, and HVAC industries. I gained experience designing and building electrical panels, programming PLC ladder logic, and retrofitting an old 1990s DirectTV satellite dish into a 4-axis, gyro stabilized, military grade communications antenna. I then joined a manufacturing firm which produces revolutionary composite service truck products where I spearheaded an effort to modernize the company’s engineering data and standards, brought in new revenue streams by adapting the product to new vehicles, and tore down the communication barriers between the sales and engineering departments. After earning the role of engineering manager, and gaining experience across the broad spectrum of a company’s engineering, sales, procurement, quality and manufacturing divisions, I decided to join a clean energy company to help grow the product portfolio.

In the short term, I want to enter the world of business and begin influencing the executives of international corporations both big and small to grow and improve their businesses by becoming a management consultant. For the long term, I would like to build my own engineering design firm which can be used by growing companies to take their new products from concept to production.

In my free time, I am learning how to code in multiple programming languages. I started a small business making instrument cluster gauge faces for older cars.