Teaching, invited lectures
Invited Lectures
2. Invited Lecture on Non-Linear Spectral Analysis at ARDB Workshop at IIT Bombay, 2008, as a part of IIT Bombay Golden Jubilee Celebrations. This topic was also presented at IIT Madras, and at IIT Chicago.
3. Invited Lecture on Basic Thermodynamics at a Short Term Course at IIT Madras, 2009. Similar lectures were delivered to Industry Engineers at Technology Appreciation Programmes conducted by ICSR, IITM.
4. Keynote Lecture on Jet Noise and Acoustical Measurements at ARDB Workshop at MIT, Chromepet, Chennai, 2011. Also presented this topic at other invited seminars and short courses on Acoustics. A shorter version of this talk was delivered to school children, organized by Aeronautical Society of India, Chennai Chapter, during the summers of 2008, 2009, 2010.
6. Invited Lecture on Passive Strategies for Control of Aeroacoustic Noise at the 12th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP 2015), held at IIT Guwahati, Dec 14-17, 2015.
7. Invited Lecture on Challenges in Jet Noise Mitigation at the 60th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM 2015) held at Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, Dec 16-19 2015.
8. Invited Lecture on Basics of Acoustics and Jet Noise Control at National Productivity Council, Chennai, 21 Aug 2018.
9. Invited Lecture on Research Process in Engineering at Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, 15 Sep 2019, for motivating engineers towards master's and doctoral research and introduce them the processes in research.
10. Invited Lecture on "Basics of Noise in HVAC Systems" at QIP Short Term Training Programme on Air Delivery Systems and Indoor Environment Quality (Sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi), Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, March 3, 2020. Same topic delivered online as an invited lecture for FDP at Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Chemperi, Kannur, Kerala on Aug 31, 2020
Lectures in regular courses
During my tenure at IIT Guwahati, a web course on Mechanical Measurements was developed with the generous support from the Curriculum Development Cell, IIT Guwahati, and hosted on IITG Intranet. For the benefit of students, I am providing the hand-outs of these slides.
Mechanical Measurements
Lectures 1-5: Introduction, basic concepts, static characteristics
Lectures 6-8: Review of Laplace transforms
Lectures 9-12: Dynamic characteristics
Lectures 13-17: Displacement measurement
Lectures 18-20: Force measurement
Lectures 21-24: Measurement of pressure
Lectures 25-28: Measurement of Flow
Lectures 29-31: Temperature measurement
Lectures 32-35: Signal Conditioning
Lectures 36-39: Introduction to Metrology
Jet Flow and Acoustics
Gas Dynamics
Thermodynamics
Old Thermodynamics course website
Applied Thermodynamics
Feedback from students over the last few years