Recent Innovations in Mechanical Engineering : Select Proceedings of ICRITDME 2020

This book presents the select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Innovations & Technological Development in Mechanical Engineering (ICRITDME 2020). It focuses on recent innovations and technological developments in the area of mechanical engineering to solve real-life problems occurring in different domains. Various topics covered in this book include machinery and machine elements, automotive engineering, aerospace technology and astronautics, nanotechnology and microengineering, control, robotics, mechatronics, dynamical systems, control, fluid mechanics engineering, thermodynamics, and heat and mass transfer. The book will be useful for students, researchers and professionals working in the area of mechanical engineering and allied fields.

Dr. Meghanshu Vashista is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), India. He was awarded prestigious BOYSCAST fellowship from Govt. of India to carry out advance research in School of Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University (United Kingdom). Department of Science and Technology (India) also funded him a project under esteemed fast track scheme for young scientist. He holds a Master degree in Welding Engineering from University of Roorkee (India) and a Ph. D degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India). He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Vashista is a member of editorial board in various reputed international journals. His area of interest is grinding and machining.  Dr. Om Prakash Verma is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar. He holds a PhD from IIT Roorkee; M.Tech from Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar and B.Tech from Dr B R Ambedkar University. Prior to joining IITR, he has served extensively in academia (Graphic Era University, Dehradoon; Banstahli Vidyapith, Rajasthan and KIIT Bhubaneswar). Dr. Verma research interests are in the areas of process dynamics, modelling, simulation, control and optimization, nonlinear and adaptive control and application of soft computing and machine learning. He has a credit of publishing more than 15 research articles with highest impact factor 10.55 in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. He has published more than 10 book chapters and more than 5 conference proceedings. He is editor of several books. He is Life Time Member of Instrument Society of India, Bangalore, and reviewer of many reputed peer-reviewed journals including Energy Journal, Elsevier; Pattern Recognition Letter, Elsevier; International Journal of Computers & Technology; International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice; Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, Springer; International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer; International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering . He is Editorial Review Board Member on Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, USA. He also has credit to organize an International conference SoCTA 2018 in department of ICE partially funded by CSIR New Delhi and MIR Lab, USA. Dr. Verma recently has received ISRO Projects.