S Seetharamu Editor

S. Seetharamu received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science in 1982 after obtaining M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from IISc in 1976 and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University in 1974. Dr. S. Seetharamu worked in CPRI since 1985 till his retirement as Director in 2015. His areas of research interests are energy technology and materials engineering. Prior to joining CPRI, he had also worked in the industry and served as a faculty member at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. 
Thimmarayappa Jagadish is the Technical Head of DHIO Research and Engineering Pvt Ltd., Bangalore. He completed his B.E, M.E and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from UVCE Bangalore University in the year 1983, 1986 and 1994 respectively, and worked as a Lecturer at RVCE, Bangalore from 1986 to 1996 and as an Assistant Professor at School of Post Graduate Studies, NTTF, Bangalore. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Head, Competence Design Center, Federal Technologies, Bangalore, and then at GE India Technology Center (now known as JFWTC, Bangalore) as CAE Specialist from 2000 to 2002. From 2002 to 2019 worked as Professor for Post Graduate studies, Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
Dr. Ravindra R Malagi is a Professor in Visvesvaraya Technological University,India. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in 2010 after obtaining M.E. in Design Engineering from Karnataka University Dharwad and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka University Dharwad and has previously worked as a Professor in the Department of Product Design & Manufacturing in Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi. His research interests include finite element method, design for manufacturing, rapid prototyping, tribology, advanced theory of vibration and the theory of elasticity. He has worked as a member of B.O.E, Mechanical Engineering at VTU and Deputy Chief Coordinator for VTU Digital Valuation.