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Professional activities

 

Professional responsibilities

 

1. Warden, Rajendra Bhawan, IIT Roorkee. Duration: July 2016-June 2017. Our mess got “Best Mess Award” among all messes.

2. Coordinator, Maintenance, MIED. Duration: July 2019-continuing

3. Member for Departmental Administrative Committee, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, Duration: August 2020-continuing.

4. Member for Departmental Research Committee, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, Duration: August 2020-continuing.

5. Member for Departmental Academic Program Committee (DAPC), Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, Duration: July 2018-August 2020

6. Lab-in charge for Fluid Mechanics Lab, IIT Roorkee. Duration: October 2012-Continuing

7. Coordinator/Co-coordinator, Examination time table, MIED. Duration: July 2017-June 2020

8. Member for Departmental Administrative Committee, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, Duration: July 2016-June 2017.

9. Member for Departmental Research Committee, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, Duration: July 2014-June 2017.

10. Faculty-in charge, MIED, Training and Placement centre, IIT Roorkee. Duration: July 2015-June 2018

11. Installation of “Temperature sensors calibration lab” at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore

12. Lab-in charge for Hydraulics Lab, NIT Calicut

13. Programme Officer for NSS for NIT Calicut

14. Reviewers for journals:

1. Physics of fluids

2. Renewable and sustainable energy reviews

3. International J. Heat Mass Transfer

4. Applied Thermal Engineering

5. Experimental heat transfer (Taylor and Francis),

6.  Heat and Mass Transfer (Springer),

7.  ASME-Micro/Nanoscale heat and mass transfer conference, March 3-6, 2012, Atlanta, USA

8.  2013 ASME Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Nov. 15-21, 2013, Sandiego, USA

9. ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, June 30-July 2, 2014, Boston, USA

1. Editor for “Trends in Mechanical Engineering”-STM journals.

2. Member for Doctoral Committee of Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Calicut.

3. Member for Monitoring Committee for the DRDO project “Design and Development of Electro-magnetically Driven Miniature Cryocooler for IR Sensor Array”.

4. Member for Final year B.Tech Project Evaluation Committee of Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Calicut.

5. Faculty Advisor for B.Tech Mechanical students.

 

Organization of Conferences/Short Term courses

 

1. Organizing Secretary for 49th National and 9rd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2022) to be held at IIT Roorkee from 12th to 14th  December 2022.

2. Co-organizing Secretary for 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019) held at IIT Roorkee from 28th to 31st December 2019.

3. Coordinator for AICTE-sponsored workshop on “Recent Development of Power Plant Engineering”, 23th January, 2016, IIT Roorkee.

4. Coordinator for AICTE-sponsored short term course on “Heat transfer on chemically reacting systems”, 8th December -12th December, 2014, IIT Roorkee.

5. Coordinator for 2-week ISTE Workshop on "Computational Fluid Dynamics", June 12-June 22, 2012, NIT Calicut.

6. Coordinator for AICTE-sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Advanced Flow Measurements and Visualization Techniques” conducted from 10th July to 16th July, 2011 at Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Calicut.

7. Coordinator for Two days National Workshop on “Energy Efficient Buildings” conducted from 14th October to 15th October, 2011 at Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Calicut.

8. Member of the Programme Coordination Committee of forthcoming 22nd NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON I. C. ENGINES AND COMBUSTION (22nd NCICEC, 2011) 10-13, December, 2011, NIT Calicut.

9. Developed a new course titled “Experimental methods in fluid flow and heat transfer” in the year 2011 at NIT Calicut for UG level.

 

Professional training received

 

1. 2-week ISTE Workshop on "Heat Transfer", November 29-December 10, 2011, IIT Bombay.

2. AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on "Advances in Hybrid Energy Systems", June 26- July 2, 2011, NIT Calicut.

3. 2-week ISTE Workshop on "Thermodynamics in Mechanical Engineering", June 14-24, 2011, IIT Bombay.

4. AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Alternative Energy options for IC Engines", June 28-July 3, 2010, NIT Calicut.

5. AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on "Renewable Energy", June 21-26, 2010, NIT Calicut.

6. 2-week AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on "Numerical Methods",May 22- June 2, 2010, NIT Calicut.

7. A NITC-NITK Joint Initiative Workshop on “Strategies to attain excellence in impact making research and development (SAEIMRD)”, February 3-4, NIT Calicut.

8. 2-week ISTE Workshop on "Computational Fluid Dynamics", March 12-16, 2012, IIT Bombay.

 

 

Professional Recognition/ Award/ Prize/ Certificate, Fellowship

 

1. Indo-US S&T Forum Bhaskar Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship and visited to University of Notre Dame, USA, 2014

2. Best paper award for the paper titled “Fluid mechanics and heat transfer of Natural Ventilation”, 8th  ISHMT-ASME conference, January3-5, 2008, Hyderabad, India.

3. OUAT Merit Scholarship in B.Tech (It is given to first ten top rankers at the University)

4. Best student award in 10th standard

5. NRTS Scholarship in 7th standard

 

New Labs Installation

 

1. Climate Simulation Lab through IIT SMILE in the year 2018

2. Sustainable Power and Energy Systems Lab in the year 2017

3. Solar Simulation Room in the year 2019

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