Rajesh Goel Editor

Dr. Ajay is currently serving as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Technology, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Advanced Manufacturing from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India after B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. (Distinction) from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His areas of research include Artificial Intelligence, Materials, Incremental Sheet Forming, Additive Manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Waste management, and optimization techniques. He has over 60 publications in international journals of repute including SCOPUS, Web of Science and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has also co-authored a textbook: Incremental Sheet Forming Technologies: Principles, merits, limitations, and applications, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis. He has recently edited a book entitled Advancements in Additive Manufacturing: artificial intelligence, nature inspired and bio-manufacturing,Elsevier. He has organized various national and international events including an international conference on Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI-2021) as conference chair. He has more than 15 national and international patents in his credit. He has supervised more than 8 M.Tech, Ph.D scholars and numerous undergraduate projects/ thesis. He has a total of 13 years of experience in teaching and research. He is and Guest Editor and Review Editor of the reputed journals including Frontiers in Sustainability. He has contributed many international conferences/ symposiums as a session chair, expert speaker, member of editorial board. He has won several proficiency awards during the course of his career, including merit awards, best teacher awards, and so on.

He has been adviser of Association of Engineers and Technocrats (AET) and has also authored many in-house course notes, lab manuals, monographs and invited chapters in books. He has organized a series of Faculty Development Programmes, International Conferences, workshops, and seminar for researchers, PhD, UG and PG level students. His area of research include additive manufacturing, die less sheet forming, intelligent manufacturing systemsHe teaches the following courses at the graduate and post graduated level: Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Smart Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Material Science, CAM, Operations Research, Optimization Techniques, Engineering Mechanics, Computer Graphics, Design of Experiments and research Methodology and so on. He is associated with many research, academic, and professional societies in various capacities.

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Mr. Parveen is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rawal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, India. Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He completed his B.Tech. (Hons.) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India and M.Tech. (Distinction) in Manufacturing and Automation from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His areas of research include Materials, Die less Forming, Additive Manufacturing, CAD/CAM and optimization techniques. He has over 20 publications in international journals of repute including SCOPUS, Web of Science and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has 5 national and international patents in his credit. He has supervised 4 M.Tech. scholars and numerous undergraduate projects/ thesis. He has a total of 12 years of experience in teaching and research.

He has organized a series of Faculty Development Programmes, workshops, and seminar for researcher, UG level students. His area of research include additive manufacturing, die less sheet forming, material characterization techniques, intelligent manufacturing systems and optimization techniques. He is associated with many research, academic, and professional societies in various capacities.

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Dr. Ashwini Kumar is currently working as Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, SGT University, Gurugram, India. Prior to joining the university Dr. Kumar has gained a 11+ Years of experience as holding the different academic and Research responsibilities in different organizations. He has completed his research in Optimal Thermohydraulic Performance of Three sides Artificially Roughened Solar Air Heaters at National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He received the Doctor of Philosophy from Department of Mechanical Engineering in National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He has authored several scientific articles in high Impact Journals. His research contribute includes articles in Artificial Roughness, Heat Transfer, Composites, Solar Air Heaters, Coatings, CFD Analysis, Fins and Flow Analysis and Thermal Optimization Techniques. He has received Best Session Paper Award in International Conferences, 2016 in NIT Patna and "Academic Excellence Award" for the session 2018-19 by Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur, during the international conference ETCDWP-II, 2019, 12-14 Feb 2019, Jaipur, India. Dr. Kumar is associated with many Universities, along with that; he is an Editorial Board Members of Reputed Journals and also a Reviewer of International Journal (SCI & Scopus Index). He has published total 93 research items till date, which includes 20 papers in SCI/Scopus, 18 International /national conferences, books and book chapters with a total Google scholar citation of 1150. He has 13 Patents in his credential, till date. Also looks forward to guiding many research scholars often developing his own interest in the field which he is expediter. He believes that Science, Engineering, and Technology are advancing at a fast pace and obsolescence of physical infrastructure, skills, and competence take place rapidly. He is keen on taking steps to improve the existing infrastructure, investment, and intellectual strength wherever they exist and network them so as to utilize them effectively and optimally for meeting the changing needs. Not only does he profess the values of Indian culture but also does he practice many of the fundamental principles of humanity and society. While dedicating himself to the cause of creating a world class infrastructure, he has also undertaken many community services in various parts of India out of his quest to contribute more to society.

Research interests:

Artificial Roughness, Solar Air Heaters, Heat Transfer, Electronic Thermal Cooling Systems, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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Prof. (Dr.) R.K. Mittal began his academic career at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), India, one of the top universities of India, in 1975 and retired from there as Senior Professor in 2018. He headed the offshore campus of BITS Pilani at Dubai, UAE, as Director; and was the Vice-Chancellor of a private university, K.R.Mangalam University, Gurugram, India. In his academic endeavour, he has introduced, developed and taught a wide spectrum of courses in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and in emerging and interdisciplinary areas, at the graduate and postgraduate levels, including product design, reliability engineering, control systems, systems modelling, robotics & intelligent systems, Mechatronics, MEMS and nanotechnology. He is life member of international professional societies IEEE and ACM.

Prof. Mittal is author/co-author of over 85 technical papers and has co-authored popular textbooks: Elements of Manufacturing Processes, PHI Learning; and Robotics & Control, McGraw-Hill; Incremental Sheet Forming Technologies: Principles, merits, limitations, and applications, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis and edited book: Advancements in Additive Manufacturing: artificial intelligence, nature inspired and bio-manufacturing, Elsevier (in Press). He was editor of two international conference proceedings and has also authored many in-house course notes, lab manuals, monographs and invited chapters in books. Seven students have completed Ph.D. under his supervision and His research interests include robust robot design, robot-path planning, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology, software engineering, software testing and e-waste. He has guided more than sixty M.E./M.S. Dissertations and numerous undergraduate projects/theses.

At BITS Pilani, he held a series of leadership positions including, Director (Special Projects); Director BITS-Pilani Dubai Campus, Deputy Director Administration; Dean, Academic Registration and Counselling Division and founder Chief, Computer Assisted Housekeeping Unit, IEEE Student Branch Counsellor, amongst others. He was instrumental in establishing BITS Alumni Association (BITSAA) and was its Founder President. He received B.E. (Hons.) & M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. degrees from BITS Pilani, India. He obtained the highest rank in order of merit in M.E. and was awarded the Institute’s Gold Medal.

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Mr. Rajesh Goel completed Mechanical engineering from Regional Engineering College (NIT Kurkushetra) in year 1998. Started career as design engineer. Completed M.S. in Quality Management from Birla institute of technology (BITS), Pilani. Continue grow in Industrial carrier and worked for 14 years in different vertical of quality and environmental function. Worked in business excellence for year and worked on a project of Business excellence sustainability task (BEST), where the integration of all management system has been done (QMS + EMS + OHSAS+ Social Accountability). The project has been awarded for Siemens Excellence Award.

For Industrial technology transfer travelled and stayed in Japan for Six month in OSAKA and Toyama and learned Japanese language. For continue learning and knowledge upgradation joined Senior Management Program from IIM Calcutta in 2012. Participated and presented research paper on Integrated Management/ Energy efficiency/ Sustainable development /Sustainable Manufacturing/ Behavior based Safety in International conference. 2 Research paper has been published in research journal and Around 6 paper has been published in conference proceeding.

Worked In different vertical of industries and having leadership roles in different function of manufacturing and still continue the learning approach joined PhD from Swiss school of Business Management (SSBM) Genava, doing research on Sustainable Manufacturing for MSME in India Industries. Currently working at Sage Metals Ltd as Vice President and heading all India Operation handling a revenue of $65MN. Managing 3 manufacturing facilities in India and along with continue learning approach.