Jai Karnik: Master of Engineering

Jai Karnik was born in India and grew up in Dubai. Since a young age he has been passionate about playing and watching Cricket and played during his undergraduate career for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also looks forward to representing Cornell University in future cricket tournaments. Jai is an avid poker player – after completing his undergraduate degree, he spent 8 months playing poker both online and live. This involved studying theories, developing strategies, bankroll management, and most importantly focusing on his mental game. This taught Jai how to be calm in stressful situations, and not be too results oriented but rather believe and invest time in the process (goals). 

Utilizing his Master of Engineering degree from Cornell, Jai aims to leverage skills in the Aerospace and Additive Manufacturing Industries, as he believes these two industry are still in their infancy and have tremendous growth potential. Space exploration is one of mankind's greatest mission and he seeks to be a part of it. On the other hand, Additive Manufacturing is slowly disrupting the manufacturing industry in ways never imagined before, which is truly inspiring!

Jai’s project for the MEng program was for Incodema3D. His project “Mechanical Property Benchmarking for 3D Printed Alloys, will add to the future of 3D engineering. One of the industries for which Incodema3D manufactures parts is the Laser Powder Bed Fusion Technology (LPBF). The material datasheets provided by equipment manufacturers are not always sufficiently accurate to represent the results of Incodema3D’s overall work-flow. Thus, the objective of the project is to identify what information has already been obtained on materials properties and then identify and fill in the gaps through testing and publishing datasets that can be given to clients with confidence. The project deliverables include consolidating existing mechanical property data at Incodema3D, designing and executing experiments to gather mechanical property data, statistically analysing the test data, publishing material property datasheets, and assisting with numerous other R&D project at the company. Mr. Karnik’s work will surely inspire confidence for future Incodema3D clients.

Beyond his academics, Jai loves to travel and has visited 30/50 US States. He lived in Hawaii for a brief period before the volcano erupted up earlier this year and looks forward to a climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro with his best friend in the summer of 2020. Jai loves talking about philosophy and spirituality.