Plasma Science and Technology

Plasma assisted nanoparticle synthesis and characterization

Magnetron Sputtering Discharge - Dusty Plasmas

Laser Material Interactions

Pulsed Laser (ns, ps & fs) laser material processing 

Micro channels machining and characterization

Micro-nano hierarchical surface structures / LIPSS (Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures)

Synthesis and Characterization of nano-particles by pulsed laser ablation

Pulsed Laser micro drilling 

CAD Modelling and Analysis | Simulation

Solid works, Solid Edge, Auto CAD, Pro - E 5.0, 

ELCAM Software for wire EDM, 

MiniTab for Design of Experiments

ANSYS 14.0 (Used for B.Tech Project) - (Basics), COMSOL (Basics)

Machining/Manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing

3 Axis CNC Machine (FANUC i series), 

Wire EDM - Cutting

Sinker EDM - Drilling

Rapid Prototyping Machine (FDM) 

Robotic - Wire Arc Metal Additive manufacturing 

Metrology & Computer Aided Inspection 

Hot and Cold Mounting

Surface Polishing (manual and automatic) 

Optical Microscope

Scanning Electron microscope (SEM) 

Hardness Tester (Vickers) 

Surface Roughness Tester (Mahr)

Farm Tester (Mahr Form)

Programming Languages & Computer Proficiency  

Programming : C / C++, Python, MATLAB

Computer proficiency: All versions of MS Office, All kinds of operating Systems

(Using Computers since 15 years age at Senior High School, all time active programmer at university in class)

Web Technologies/ Web Design Skills:    HTML4 & HTML5, JavaScript (Basics), PHP (Basics), CSS3 (Finished courses in Coursera for additional understanding)

• Created a faculty webpage for my supervisor at IIT Hyderabad click here 

• helped for developing co supervisors too click here 

• Involved with Faculty (https://home.iitm.ac.in/samuelgl/index.html), Department profile fully wordpress (https://mech.iitm.ac.in/)

• Conference platform for COPEN at IIT Madras, purchased domain and still maintaining occasionally.

• Personal google site been there for a while now https://sites.google.com/site/mmurugeshme

• Personal own domain (https://nimbleprerana.com/)  for blog along with this profile of professor (https://gowdalab.com/), bought server space and developed using wordpress.

• Using wordpress almost from 2012 with small blogs and used engage with local on pc servers XAMPP, onsite servers etc (hfs, XAMPP-htdocs)

Co- Curricular & Extra-curricular activities

• Received MEXT Govt. Scholarship Japan for PhD research studies at Hokkaido University, Japan.

• Selected as student speaker to share experiences at Hokkaido University during the event Indo Japan Student Workshop organized by Hiroshima University, Japan (Sep 2020).

• Received photography appreciation award from IIT Madras during 2018-19.

• Secured admission with scholarship for Secondary education & Bachelor of Engineering (2008-14)

• TTD Education trust scholarship awardee for merit in high school exams ( TTD Trust Meritorious Scholarship for 1000 students each year. (2007-08))

• Discipline and National Service Training: Received NCC A Certificate in high school (2007)

• Secured all India rank 472 in 10th Nationwide Education and Scholarship Test (Jan’13)

• Stood Gudupalle Mandal 1st rank in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examinations (2008)

Seminars & Workshops

• Presented paper entitled “Future Economy – Fuel Cells Economy”, Mini Conference ‘ICMIE’ Bangalore (Oct ’13)

• Presented various seminars at national level tech fests in local engineering colleges which includes Stirling Engine Mechanism, Compressed Air Engine, Ecological and Environmental Imbalance, Safety Mechanisms in Automobiles.

• Participated in competitions such as Quiz, 2D - Drafting, Cad mania, Energy Live during technical fests in various engineering colleges

• Presented seminar during online Japan-Indo Student Workshop (Technologies for Future) organized by Hiroshima University Japan (Sep, 2020)

• One heart for Peace, International Conference by United Nations World Peace Association (UNWPA) held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan on 16 June 2019

• 3 days Intensive automation training on PMAC controller at OMRON Automation Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (11-13 June 2018) 

• 1 Day workshop “ Creative Engineering” - Powered by principles of design thinking & “Solar Powered Cooking” by Onio Design Pvt. Ltd, Pune at IIT Bombay (03/2014)

• 5 Days workshop “Automobile Anatomy” Hands-On Session By HELIOS Training & Consulting Services, Chittoor at RGUKT-RK Valley(12/2012)

• 2 Days workshop “AUTONOVA” by INDROYD LABS, GOA at NIT Calicut (10/2012)

• Program for Aspiring College Teachers (PACT), a one-day workshop by Teaching Learning Centre (TLC), IIT Madras on Feb 24, 2018.

• How to write Papers/Thesis using LaTeX a one day workshop, organized by Research Affairs Council (RAC), IIT Madras on 4 Feb 2018

Positions of Responsibilities (POR) / Leadership skills / Organizing Experiences

• Overall Core Member of International Conference COPEN 10 during 6-9 December 2017 at IIT Madras

• Volunteered with Disaster Prevention Team in Japan for children English camp, water camp and forest camp during STSI program in 2019 at Hokkaido University

• QMS Core (Head) for Research Scholars Day (RSD) 2018 annual Research scholars’ event in IIT Madras.

• Volunteered for AIMTDR 2018, International conference held at College of Engineering (CEG), Guindy Campus, Anna University, Chennai during 13-15th Dec 2018

• Working as Media & Design Coordinator for Research Scholars Day (2018) at IIT Madras

• Working as CMGFS Coordinator for well maintenance of the facilities in Students Facility Centre at IIT Madras

• Worked as Coordinator for Shaastra 2018, IIT Madras (An ISO certified technical festival)

• Worked as QMS Manager for Saarang 2018, IIT Madras (An ISO certified cultural festival)

• Worked as Assistant Warden at Chirman Council of Wardens (CCW) IIT Madras for 5 Months (Mar-July 2017)

• Involved as a Core Member for the 10th International Conference on Precision, Meso, Micro and Nano Engineering (COPEN 10), 2017 during 6-9 December 2017 at IIT Madras

• Assisted as Campus Ambassador for fests Helios’14, Radiance’14 at IIT Bombay(03/2014)

• Assisted as Campus Ambassador for techfest IGNUS’14 at IIT Jodhpur

• Assisted twice as Web Casting Engineer for E.C.I in Andhra Pradesh (2012)

• Organized an event named Impact in my Village under supervision of Agastya International Foundation

Others / Social Activities 

• NWEY 2018 – National workshop on Empowerment of youth by Ramakrishnamath and Vivekananda Jonaththana Trust Chennai during 15 Sep 2018.

• Participated in N.C.C Annual Camp (CATC) – 2 in SPSR Nellore, A.P.(2006)

• Life Goes On, 5 km Marathon held in IIT Madras by Samanvay, DOMS on 14 Oct 2018  &   Be the eye marathon by Shaastra 2017, IIT Madras in association with WD

•  Active participation in science fares, quizzes and essay competitions.. etc  and won various prizes in schooling