1. Manufacturing

1. Additive Manufacturing

2. Sustainable Manufacturing

3. Smart Manufacturing

Teaching

1. Associate Professor in School of Mechanical and Building Sciences at VIT University, Vellore, India (Aug 2009 - Aug 2012)

Research

1. Guest Researcher in Systems Integration Division at National Institute of Standards Technology, US Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, USA (Sep 2012 - Nov 2014)

1. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

1. Editorial Member, ASTM Journal of Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing

1. Basic Concepts in Manufacturing Processes

2. Product Realization Practice

3. Sustainable Design

4. Product Design and Prototyping

5. Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

6. Design for X

7. Additive Manufacturing

8. Sustainable Manufacturing

9. Manufacturing Processes I & II

10. CNC Technology and Programming

1. Finite Element Simulation of a Flow forming process, in Machining: Operations, Technology and Management, Nova Publishers, USA, 2013. (with Madan Kishore Gara, G. Gopi, K. Rama Sharma, Bikramjit Podder, Dasharath Ram)

1. A Classification Scheme for Smart Manufacturing Systems’ Performance Metrics, Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 52–74, 2017, (with Lee, Y. T., Jain, S., Robinson, S., Helu, M., Hatim, Q. Y., Rachuri, S., Dornfeld, D., Saldana, C. J., and Kumara, S.)

2. Methods and Tools for Performance Assurance of Smart Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Vol. 121. 2016. (With Kibira, Deogratias, Katherine C. Morris)

3. Developing a virtual machining model to generate MTConnect machine monitoring data from STEP-NC, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 54. No. 15. pp. 1-19, 2016, (With Seung-Jun Shin, Jungyub Woo, Duck Bong Kim and Sudarsan Rachuri)

4. A faceted approach for classification of manufacturing processes for sustainability performance evaluation, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 75, Issue 9-12, pp 1309-1320, 2014, (With Sudarsan Rachuri and David Lechavalier)

5. The effect of neighborhood scan path exposures on heat buildup: Numerical investigations on the laser energy delivery in selective laser sintering process, International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, Vol. 4, No. 2-4, pp 119-139, 2014, (With Kurian Antony and D.G. Meda)

6. Numerical and Experimental Investigations on Laser melting of SS316L metal powders, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp 345-355, 2014, (With Kurian Antony and N. Arivazhagan)

7. Energy metrics for product assembly equipment and processes, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 65, pp 142-151. (With Shaw Feng, Christopher Brown and Boonserm Kulvatunyou )

8. Studies on Absorptivity and Marangoni Flow during Laser Sintering. Advanced Materials Research. 622 (2013): 531-534.

9. Statistical Modelling and minimization of form error in SLS prototyping, Rapid Prototyping Journal, 2011, Vol. 18, No. 1. (with P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao).

10. Influence of building strategies on the accuracy of parts in selective laser sintering, Materials and Design, 2009, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 2946-2954. (With P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

11. New model for shrinkage compensation in Selective Laser Sintering process, Virtual and Physical Prototyping Journal, 2009, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 49-62. (With P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

12. Hot Corrosion Behavior of Friction Welded AISI 4140 and AISI 304 in K2 SO-60% NaCl Mixture. Journal of Materials Science & Technology 28.10 (2012): 895-904. (With N.Arivazhagan)

1. Energy assessment methodology for product assembly processes, In Proceedings of ASME 2015 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2015), June, 2015, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. (With Shaw Feng and Xiufang Sun)

2. Real-time, continuous performance management system for smart manufacturing, International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), September, 2014, Agaccio, France. (With Boonserm Kuvantunyou and KC Morris)

3. Mechanical behavior of bone tissue engineering scaffold under degradation in spatial and temporal domain, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering (CAE2013), IIT Madras, India. (With Khadar Basha Abdul)

4. Energy Information modelling in Product Assembly Processes, in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), September, 2013, State College, PA, USA. (With Shaw Feng, Boonserm Kuvantunyou)

5. Use of rapid tooling for development of centrifugal pump casing for military aircraft, in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Manufacturing and Building Sciences (ICAMB2012), January, 2012, Vellore, India. (With B. Vasantharaju and B. Ashok)

6. Computer aided fixture design in a virtual environment, in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Manufacturing and Building Sciences (ICAMB2012), January, 2012, Vellore, India. (with E. Rajkumar and K. Annamalai)

7. PLM as a tool for shortening design cycle time and cost reduction in military aerospace industry, in Proceedings of International Conference on Trends in Product Life Cycle, Modeling Simulation and Synthesis, December, 2011, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. (With B. Vasantha Raju and B. Ashok)

8. 3D Digitization of sub surface features using 3D GPR, accepted for publications in Proceedings of ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), August 28-31, 2011 in Washington, DC. (With V.S. Mahesh and P.C. Jha)

9. Shrinkage compensation along single direction dexel space for improving accuracy in Selective Laser Sintering process, Proceeding of 4th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Washington DC, USA, pp. 827 - 832, August 2008. (With P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

10. DFM and Process planning issues in Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) process, Proceedings of International Conference on Manufacturing Automation, National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp 386-401, May-2007. (With P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

11. Automatic evaluation of alternate tool access directions (TADs) using STEP for minimal setup changes, Proceedings of International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, September 2004. (Later selected for publication as SME Technical paper, TP04PUB315) (with V. Dhanalakshmi and K. Sankaranarayanaswamy)

12. Advances in Materials for powder based Rapid Prototyping, In Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Processing, at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, December-2006, section 14.6. (With Jain P.K., P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

13. Study of the effect of process parameters on shrinkage in SLS, Proceedings of Indo-US workshop on Rapid Manufacturing, April-2006. Bangalore, India, pp.109-121. (with Ragunath N., P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

14. On the strength and accuracy of SLS prototype, Proceedings of Indo-Russian workshop on topical problems in solid mechanics, 2008, BITS, Pilani, Goa, India. pp. 283-298. (With Jain P.K., P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

15. Studies on selective laser sintering of polyamide, Proceedings of Indo-Japan workshop, 2008, Pune, India (With Jain P.K., P.M. Pandey and P.V.M. Rao)

16. Development of Automatic Feature Identification system for prismatic parts using STEP part 21 file, Proceedings of National conference on Modeling and Analysis of Production System, Tirichirappalli, India, 2004. (with V. Dhanalakshmi and K. Sankaranarayanaswamy)