Dr. Kaushik Kumar - Associate Professor of BIT, Mesra
Kaushik Kumar, B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering, REC (Now NIT), Warangal), MBA (Marketing, IGNOU) and Ph.D (Engineering, Jadavpur University), is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. He has 22 years of Teaching & Research and over 11 years of industrial experience in a manufacturing unit of Global repute. His areas of teaching and research interest are Composites, Optimization, Non-conventional machining, CAD / CAM, Rapid Prototyping and Quality Management Systems. He has 14 Patents, 60+ Books, 30+ Edited Book Volume, 65+ Book Chapters, 180+ International Journal, 21 International and 1 National Conference Publications to his credit. He is on the editorial board and review panel of many International and National Journals of repute. He has been felicitated with many awards and honours.
Dr. Gulshan Kumar
Dr. Gulshan Kumar is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani-Dubai Campus (BPDC), UAE, Since 2019. Before joining BPDC, he had worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India, for more than 3 years. He has teaching experience of more than 8 years. He received the Doctorate degree with entitled “Residual Stresses in Zirconium: A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study”, from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India.
He has been awarded with a Gold Medal by Haryana State Governor for standing 1st position in B.Tech. He has published the papers in various reputed international journals. His research field includes Manufacturing, Metal forming, Residual stress, Structure-property correlation, Materials characterization, Thermo-mechanical processing of metallic materials, Stress relief annealing and FEM based simulations.
His other research interests are in the field of manufacturing management: operations management and industrial engineering, total quality management, quality control and lean manufacturing.