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Professional Experience

  • Aug 2020 – Till Date
    Professor
    Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee
  • April 2014 – July 2020
    Associate Professor
    Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee
  • Nov 2010 – April 2014
    Assistant Professor
    Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee
  • July 2009 – Nov 2010
    Associate Professor
    Mechanical Engineering Department, SVIT Gujarat
  • Sep 2003 - June 2009
    Assistant Professor
    Mechanical Engineering Department, SVIT Gujarat
  • Aug 1998 - Aug 2003
    Lecturer
    Mechanical Engineering Department, SVIT Gujarat

Prizes/Medals/Awards/Honours

  • Best Paper Awards in ASME-2012 IDETC/CIE, August 12 - 15, 2012, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
  • Selected as one of the Biographees of The Marquis Who’s Who in the World in the Edition 2014
  • Best Poster Paper Presentation Award in ICIT, 2008, New Delhi

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Life Member - The Indian Society for Technical Education, ISTE
  • Life Member - American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
  • Associate Member - The Institution of Engineers (India)
  • Member - Tribology Society of India (TSI)
  • Member - Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM)
  • Life Member - Space Society of Mechanical Engineering (SSME)

Conferences/Workshops/ Courses /Seminars organized

  • Organized National Seminar on “Inflatable Structures and Materials for Space Applications (ISMSA-2019)" at Greater Noida Extension Center, IIT Roorkee. (November 7– 8, 2019)
  • Organized “National Ambient Noise Monitoring network-Design, Implementation and control techniques" short term course under the aegis of Continuing Education Center & Central Pollution control Board at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee. ( 17th to 19th February, 2016)
  • Organized one day QIP workshop on "Advanced Material and Structure for Space Applications" AICTE sponsored at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee. ( 14th February 2016)
  • Organized “Modeling & Simulation of Dynamical Systems” AICTE sponsored short term course at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee. (30th December 2013 - 4th January 2014)
  • Organized “Noise Monitoring and Control Techniques” short term course under the aegis of Continuing Education Center & Central Pollution control Board at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee. ( 21st to 23rd December, 2012)
  • Organized “Dynamics and Controls of Mechanical Systems” AICTE sponsored short term course at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee.(26th to 30th December, 2011
  • Treasurer, 23rd International Conference on Processing & Fabrication of advanced Materials (PFAM-XXXIII) at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee. 05-07 December, 2014
  • Treasurer, National Conference on Fire Research & Engineering: FIRE 2014 at Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee. (01-02 March, 2014)
  • Coordinator in Student Mechanism Design Contest- iNaCoMM 2013 at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department , IIT Roorkee. (18th -20th December, 2013)
  • Organized "National Tribology Conference NTC-2011" as a Joint Organizing Secretary Under the aegis of Tribology Society of India at Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee. (8-10th December,2011 )
  • Organized National Level technical meet and competition “PRAKARSH-06” under ISTE student chapter as chief convener at SVIT, Gujarat
  • Developed a Course forPost Diploma in CAD/CAM (PDCC) at Indo German Tool Room Ahmedabad. (2005)
  • Developed a Course for Machinery Fault Diagnostics And Signal Processing Pedagogy - National Mission Project on Education through ICT (in progress)

Other Activities/Responsibilities

At Institute Level (IIT Roorkee)

  • Head, Centre for Space Science and Technology, April 2023 to till Date.
  • Coordinator ISRO-IIT Roorkee Space Technology Cell, October 2021 to till Date.
  • Associate Dean of Students' Welfare (Bhawans & Mess), March 2017 to Jan 2021.
  • Chairman, Coordinating Committee of Bhawans (CCB), July 2017 to Jan 2021.
  • Member-“Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), Uttarakhand, IIT Roorkee, January 2016 to Till Date
  • Member, Institute Hospital Advisory Committee, June 2017 to Dec 2020
  • Member- Security Advisory Committee (SAC), January 2018 to Dec 2020.
  • Member- Ordinances and Regulations on Unfair means issues for UG, PG and Ph.D. programme
  • Coordinator, COGNIZANCE-2017
  • DOSW Nominee, Community Dairy Committee, May 2016 to April 2017.
  • Central Purchase Officer (CPO), Coordinating Committee of Bhawans (CCB), June 2016 to June 2017.
  • Chief Warden, Govind Bhawan, June 2015 to June 2017.

At Department Level (MIED, IIT Roorkee)

  • Coordinator, Time Table Committee, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department IIT Roorkee, July 2017 to July 2018.
  • Co-coordinator, Time Table Committee, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, July 2016 to June 2017.
  • Superintendent, Examination Cell, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department , IIT Roorkee, July 2014 to July 2015.
  • Dy. Superintendent, Examination Cell, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department , IIT Roorkee, July 2013 to July 2014.
  • O.C. Dynamic of Machine Laboratory, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department , IIT Roorkee, July 2011 to till data.
  • Member Faculty Search Committee, July 2014 to July 2016.
  • Member, Planning, Information and Special Event Cell, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department , IIT Roorkee, July, 2012 to July 2015.
  • Member, Departmental Research Committee (DRC), Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department , IIT Roorkee, July 2012 to July 2014.

Editorial Member / Reviewer of International Referred Journals

  • Associate Editor of Spacecraft and Satellites, SNS Editorial Board, World Scientific, from 2023
  • Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Vibration Analysis, Measurement, and Control, from 2014
  • Member of Editorial Board of IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, from 2014
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation
  • Reviewer, Nonlinear Dynamics (Springer Publication)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Vibration & Control (Sage Publication)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, ASME
  • Reviewer, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (Elsevier Publication)
  • Reviewer, Computational Material Science (Elsevier Publication)
  • Reviewer, Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition IMECE2010, November 12-18, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Reviewer, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME IDETC/CIE), August 30-Sptember 2, 2009, California, USA
  • Reviewer and Member of Local Organizing Committee of 1st International and 22nd All India on Manufacturing Technology Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR),(21-23 Dec. 2006), IIT Roorkee

Invited Talks

  • Fault Diagnosis by using soft computing techniques, Workshop on Fundamentals of Tribology & its Industrial Application, SVNIT Surat, 6-10th July , 2015
  • ​Fundamentals of Vibrations: IIT Roorkee, 7th March, 2011
  • Non linear Dynamics of Rolling Element Bearings: IIT Roorkee, 8th March, 2011
  • Fault Detection Techniques: IIT Roorkee, 9th March, 2011
  • Vibration Analysis of Rotor Bearing System, National Seminar ,GEC Bikaner (Rajasthan) 23 March., 2011
  • Fault Detection Techniques, Research Week, Gujarat Technological University, 9th & 10th April, 2014
  • Identification of Ball Bearings Faults in Rotating Machines, IIT Delhi, May 2014
  • Fault Diagnosis of High Speed Rolling Element Bearings, Workshop on Industrial Tribology & Application, SVNIT Surat, 14th &15th November 2014
  • Inflatable Antenna for Space Application, Research Week, Gujarat Technological University, 17th & 18th March, 2015
  • Wrinkling analysis of Membrane Structures, Key Note Speaker, 6th National Conference of Emerging Vistas in Technology in 21st Century on the subject “Advances in Mechanical & Automobile Engineering” , Gujarat, 4th April, 2015

Courses Taught

UG level

  • MI-301 Dynamics of Machines
  • MI-108 Mechanical Engineering Drawing
  • MI-211 Theory of Machine
  • MI-203 Mechanics of Solids
  • MI-261 Machine Drawing

PG level

  • MI-511B Modelling and Simulations
  • MI-563 Mechatronics
  • MI-565 Smart Material, Structure and Devices
  • MI-559 Computer Aided Mechanism Design

Where to find me

Office no. 235
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (East Block), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247667,
Uttarakhand, India

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