Process Intensification: Faster, Better, Cheaper (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032254777)

Dr. Nagarajan is currently a Professor and the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras, having stepped down in September 2018 after two terms as the Dean of International & Alumni Relations. He obtained his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering in 1981 from IIT Madras, and a Ph.D. in the same field from Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) in 1986. From 1986 - 1988, he served as Research Faculty in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; during this tenure, he served as coordinator for research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Navy. From 1988 - 2003, Dr. Nagarajan was a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Storage Systems' Development Laboratory in San Jose, CA, where he oversaw elimination of ozone-depleting chemicals from IBM's manufacturing operations and directed many ground-breaking efforts in the areas of chemical integration & micro-contamination control for hard disk drives.