Chemical Engineering · UT Austin · Class of 2029

I build hardware for chip packaging and thermal.

Chemical engineering student with a minor in Semiconductor Science and Engineering. I'm looking for Summer 2027 internships in semiconductor packaging, process engineering, and thermal hardware.

manish.n.chander@gmail.com LinkedIn Resume (PDF)

Nanoscale Design & Manufacturing LabUndergrad researcher, additive microsystems

Professional Development ChairTexas Materials Scientists & Engineers

GPA 3.9 / 4.0B.S. ChemE, minor in Semiconductor Sci. & Eng.

Selected work

Custom DLP printer frame with projector, motion stages, and build platform

Jan 2026 to present · Nanoscale Design & Manufacturing Lab

Custom DLP printer for printing chip interconnects

Advanced packaging needs fine metal wiring (redistribution layers) between chips. I'm building a digital light processing printer from scratch to print those structures with conductive resins.

BUILT: Designed the printer in SolidWorks, machined parts in-house, measured flatness with a CMM, and wrote tip/tilt correction code to level the build platform.
MATERIALS: Worked on silver/acrylate photopolymer resins for printing interconnects.
MODELING: Modeled the light-curing chemistry and trained a PyTorch model that predicts print resolution from exposure dose, development time, and composition, then used it to find recipes with fewer defects.

SolidWorksMachiningCMM metrologyPython / PyTorch

From print to working conductor

**1 · Printed** Circuit pattern right after printing

**2 · Silver cured** After curing the silver in the print

**3 · Annealed** After heat treatment to make it conductive

3D surface scan Height map of a printed pad and trace

**Electrical testing** Four-point probe on a printed film

Fine features Longhorn logo printed at sub-millimeter scale

Hot/cold plate prototype: Peltier modules on the lid of an insulated liquid reservoir — The build: Peltier plates on top, liquid-cooled reservoir below

A student's hand-drawn concept for Templates, plates that keep food hot or cold — The original concept, drawn by a K-8 student

Sep 2025 to present · TMSE · UT Girl Day

Templates: turning a kid's invention into a real hot/cold plate

Women in STEM runs a competition where K-8 girls across Texas invent contraptions on paper. Our TMSE team takes those designs, builds working versions, and showcases them at UT Girl Day.

One student drew "Templates," plates that keep your food either hot or cold. I was the thermal hardware engineer turning that drawing into a working device.

BUILT: Two plates driven by independent Peltier modules, separated by an insulating barrier, so one side runs hot while the other runs cold.
COOLING: Added heat sinks and a recirculating liquid-cooling loop to pull heat away faster and keep temperature even across each plate.
RESULT: Stable, well-separated hot and cold zones on one platform.

Thermal designPeltier controlLiquid cooling

Leadership

Aug 2026 to present

Professional Development Chair

Texas Materials Scientists & Engineers (TMSE), UT Austin

Run the org's professional development program for members.
Host hands-on CAD, FEA, and welding workshops, plus soft-skills sessions.
Building out career and networking resources that connect members with industry.

Training & coursework

Aug 2026 to May 2027

U-STARS semiconductor manufacturing program

Run by Austin Community College and the Texas Institute of Electronics. Hands-on cleanroom training covering the CMOS process flow (oxidation, ion implantation, lithography, etch, CMP, metallization), vacuum and gas delivery, plasma processing, and statistical process control.

Spring 2027

Packaging and thermal coursework

Advanced Packaging, Thermal Management for Microelectronics, Transport Phenomena, and Applied Statistics.