Advances in Engineering Design: Select Proceedings of Icoied 2020 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789813340206)

Dr. Pawan Kumar Rakesh is serving as an Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, (NIT Uttarakhand) Srinagar Garhwal. Currently, he is discharging the duties of the Associate Dean (Faculty Welfare) from 2016 to till date. He has also served as Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering (2013-2016). Working in a growing organization, he has got substantial exposure of several lab developments, academic structure and student welfare. He is also the Coordinator of Design Innovation Center, NIT Uttarakhand. He has authored 36 articles published in reputed International/ National journals and conferences. He has edited one book title "Processing of Green Composites" Springer. He has contributed four book chapters in different book published by Woodhead Publishing, UK; Wiley-VCH, Verlag Gmbh, Germany; and Springer Nature Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Dr. Apurbba Kumar Sharma is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at IIT Roorkee, India. He is also the Coordinator of Design Innovation Center, IIT Roorkee. Earlier, he was holding the positions of Associate Dean, Academic Studies and Chairman, Institute Academic Performance Evaluation Committee in this Institute during July 2013 to April, 2017. He has obtained his Bachelor degree from Dibrugarh University, Assam. He has subsequently obtained his Masters and PhD degrees from IIT Madras. Dr. Sharma has filed 9 Indian Patents; 3 of them have already been granted. He has published more than 100 research papers in International Journals. He has also presented/published more than 120 research papers in various International and National Conferences. Dr. Sharma is also a reviewer of several reputed international journals. He has also edited one International Conference Proceedings and was guest Co-Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

Dr. Inderdeep Singh completed his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Hamirpur, (Himachal Pradesh) in 1998. He got first position in the class of Mechanical Engineering. He completed his Masters of Technology and Ph.D. from I.I.T. Delhi in 2000 and 2004 respectively. His doctoral research work was awarded by the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) as the "Best Industry Relevant Ph.D. Project" during the session of 2004-2005. He started his career as Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in 2004. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee as Lecturer in 2005 and is currently working as Professor. He has served as the Associate Dean of Students Welfare from July, 2013 to February, 2017. He has published over 180 research papers in journals and conferences. He has contributed 15 chapters in different books published by internationally renowned publishers. His current research focus is in the direction of developing fully bio-degradable green composites.