Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering: Select Proceedings of ICRAME 2020

Prof. K.M. Pandey obtained B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from BHUIT, Varanasi now known as IIT BHU in 1980. Dr. Pandey also did M.Tech in Heat Power from the same institute in 1987. Prior to joining REC Silchar, Dr. Pandey served in BIT Mesra, Ranchi, as associate lecturer for a period of 3 years and 6 months. Dr. Pandey did his PhD in mechanical engineering in 1994 from IIT Kanpur. He has published and presented more than 325 papers in international and national journals and conferences. Dr. Pandey has also served in Colombo Plan Staff College Manila, Philippines, in the year 2002 as faculty consultant seconded by Government of India. Currently, he is working as professor in department of mechanical engineering of National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India. He has also served the department in the capacity of head for two terms of 3 years. He has also served as member of Board of Governors of BIT Silchar for two terms. His research interest areas are combustion, high speed flows, technical education, heat transfer, internal combustion engines, human resource management, gas dynamics and numerical simulations in CFD area from commercial softwares. Dr. Pandey has got more than 70 SCI-indexed journal papers and more than 150 research articles are indexed in Scopus. His h-index in Scopus is 17; and 23 in google scholar. He has guided 14 students for PhD and 89 students for M.Tech so far.

Prof. R.D. Misra received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Jorhat Engineering College under Dibrugarh University in 1991, M.Tech. in Energy Studies from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1996, and Ph. D. in Thermal Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2004. He has joined as faculty in Mechanical Engineering in the National Institute of Technology Silchar in 1992. He has served NIT Silchar as Lecturer from 1992 to 2003, as Assistant /Associate Professor from 2004 to 2009, as Professor from 2010 to 2018and as Professor (HAG) from 2018 till date. He has published around 40 papers in referred international journals. Presently He is a professional member (life) of the Indian Society for Technical Education and The Institute of Engineers (Fellow).

Prof. P.K. Patowari is currently a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam. He obtained his B.Tech degree (Mechanical) from NERIST, Itanagar, and M.E. (Prod.) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His major areas of research interests include Advanced/Non-traditional Manufacturing Processes Micro-Manufacturing, Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Computer Numerical Control (CNC), Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). He has published more than 30 papers in referred international journals. Currently, he is the life member of professional bodies like Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS) and The Institute of Engineers (Fellow).

Prof. Uday Shanker Dixit received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the erstwhile University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee) in 1987, his M.Tech degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1993, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1998. He has worked in two industries―HMT, Pinjore, and INDOMAG Steel Technology, New Delhi, where his main responsibility was designing various machines. Dr Dixit joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, in 1998, where he is currently a professor. He was also the Officiating Director of the Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar (February 2014-May 2015). Dr Dixit has been actively engaged in research in various areas of design and manufacturing over the last twenty-five years. He has authored/co-authored 115 journal papers, 109 conference papers, twenty-seven book chapters, and six books on mechanical engineering. He has also co-edited seven books related to manufacturing. He has guest-edited eleven special issues of journals. Presently he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Series C, and the Regional Editor (Asia) of the International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems. He has guided twelve doctoral and forty-four masters’ students. Dr Dixit has investigated a number of sponsored projects and developed several courses. Presently, he is the Vice-President of the AIMTDR conference