Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering

1. Thermal engineering.- 2. Aerospace and automobile engineering.- 3. Fluid mechanics.- 4. Bio mechanics.- 5. Robotics and mechatronics.- 6. Design and optimization.- 7. Tribology.- 8. Materials engineering and metallurgy.- 9. Manufacturing.- 10. Industrial engineering.- 11. Production and production management.- 12. Rapid prototyping.- 13. MEMS.

Dr. G. S. V. L. Narasimham is a Chief Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He received his M. Tech. from IIT Madras and his Ph.D. from IISc Bangalore, both in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include solar thermal engineering, HVAC, refrigeration, cryogenics, heat and mass transfer, CFD, and simulation of thermal systems. He has almost three decades of experience in teaching, academic and sponsored research and guiding masters and research students. He worked as an investigator in the projects sponsored by the departments of non-conventional energy sources, atomic energy, space, power, science and technology and planning commission, as well as industrial research projects sponsored by IMI, GE, Mahindra and Mahindra. He also works as a consultant from IISc for various organizations and is a Life Member of professional bodies related to heat and mass transfer and cryogenics. Dr. A. Veeresh Babu received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and M.Tech. in Heat Power Refrigeration from JNTU, Andhra Pradesh in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from Andhra University in 2013. He worked in refrigerator design, clean room technology, cold room/freezer room design and construction while he was associated with the Industry. He erected and commissioned clean rooms at DRDE, Gwalior, RCI, Hyderabad and CRDI, Lucknow. He has a research experience of more than 12 years since he joined NIT Warangal as an Assistant Professor in the year 2006. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at NIT Warangal. He has published more than 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has also presented his research in 10 international conferences. He has completed two minor research projects and two major projects are under review. He was also appointed as a course writer for certificate in Power Plant Engineering offered by IGNOU, India.Dr.S. Sreenatha