Dr. Basil Kuriachen

Dr. Basil Kuriachen is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut from 2020. His vivacity and dexterity towards abiding commitment to sublime work ethic conferred him with the Ph.D. and M. Tech degrees from NIT Calicut (2015) and Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam (2011), respectively. His resolute research niches are in the field of metal additive manufacturing, micro/nano-machining processes, precision and ultra-precision machining, modeling and analysis in the machining of “difficult to machine” materials, tribology of manufacturing processes, nano-tribology, surface coatings, nano-lubricants, advanced machining processes, friction stir welding & processing and surface characterization. He is the principal investigator (PI) for many currently active projects from DST-SERB, ARDB, DRDO, Govt. of India, UGC, DAE, TIH_IITG, SERB-IMPRINT, and ISRO. Excellency in academics and research enabled him to be the recipient of several prestigious national awards/fellowships including of IEI Young Engineers Award 2019-20, SERB-International Travel Fellowship 2017, Early Career Research Award of DST-SERB 2016 and SERB’s International Research Experience (SIRE) fellowship. He has organized five GIAN programs (in collaboration with foreign faculties), and is the reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals of repute associated with various publishing houses such as ASME, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, etc. He has to his credit, 110 research publications in international refereed journals and conferences alongside two patents. Presently, he is guiding 7 Ph. D scholars (three theses completed) to carrying out research work in the distinct fields of electrical discharge machining assisted alloying, friction stir welding & processing, laser surface texturing and so on. He has organized many national and state level programs such as conferences (1), short term courses (3), and state level seminars (4) and has participated in 17 short term courses in his career so far.

Current Courses Taught

Even Semester (2025-26)

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Courses Taught

• Modern machining Processes

• Manufacturing Process-I

• Advanced Machining Science

• Manufacturing Science

• Machining Technology

• Manufacturing process-II

• Advanced Manufacturing Processes

• Advanced Machining Processes

• Manufacturing Laboratory-I

• Manufacturing Laboratory-II

• Manufacturing Laboratory-III

• ME3302E Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Technologies

• ME6331E Metal Additive Manufacturing: Technologies and Practice