Debi Prasad Mishra Editor

Dr. Debi Prasad Mishra,a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Design Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) Kanpur, India, is currently working as the Director of the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR), Kolkata. He had held the Indian Oil Golden Jubilee Professional Chair in IIT Kanpur. He has been conferred with several awards and recognitions. His major areas of research interests are propulsion, combustion and atomization. He has written five textbooks and six edited books in the field of combustion and propulsion. He has published 238 research papers in international/national journals and has five patents to his credit. He has undertaken more than 37 research and consultancy projects from various agencies, research labs and industries. He has developed six online courses under the Swayam platform, a national initiative of MHRD. Besides this, he has designed and developed a unique MOOC course, "Introduction to Ancient Indian Technology" on the Swayam platform of NPTEL. He has written several articles to popularize science and technology among common people and delivered several lectures and discussions on TV and radio related to ancient science and technology and other different topics. He is well known as a motivational speaker and is very popular among youth circles.