Academics

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering from Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University (2014-Current)

Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering with minor in Operations Management from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2010 - 2014)

Technical Skills

Important Course work ( & useful textbooks)

Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences

• Heat Transfer ......................................................(Introduction to Heat Transfer, Incropera)
• Wind Power ........................................................(Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application, Manwell)
• Computational Fluid Mechanics*
• Foundation of Fluid Mechanics* ......................(Incompressible Flow)
• Boiling Condensation and Two phase flows* (Convective Boiling and Condensation, Collier )
• Radiative Heat Transfer* ..................................(Essentials of Radiation Heat Transfer, Balaji)
• Thermodynamics .............................................(Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Moran & Shapirov)
• Thermal Power Engineering
• Turbomachines ...................................................(Fundamentals of Turbomachinery, Peng)
• Foundations of fluid mechanics .......................(Fluid Mechanics, FM White)
• Introduction to turbulence ................................(Turbulence, Davidson and Turbulent Flows, Stephen Pope)
• Combustion engineering ...................................(An Introduction to Combustion, Turns)
• Internal combustion engines ............................(IC Engine Fundamentals, John Heywood)
• Simulation of IC engine processes* .................(Computer Simulation Of Spark-Ignition Engine Processes, V. Ganesan)
• Rocket Technology* ............................................(Rocket Propulsion, Ramamurthy)
• Refrigeration and air conditioning

Machine design and related

• Kinematics and dynamics of machinery ..........(Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms, Mallik)
• Design of machine elements .............................(Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design)
• Materials and design ..........................................(Materials Science and Engineering, Callister)
• Strength of materials ..........................................(Engineering Mechanics of Solids, Popov)
• Structural health and integrity monitoring* ....(Structural Sensing, Health Monitoring, and Performance Evaluation)
• Engineering mechanics.......................................
• Instrumentation and control
• Machine tools and metrology
• Manufacturing technology

Operations Research (Minor)

• Fundamentals of Operations research..............(Introduction to Operations Research, Hillier and Lieberman)
• Advanced operations research
• Operations management

Mathematics

• Differential Equations
• Linear algebra & numerical analysis
• Calculus I and II ...................................................(Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Thomas and Finney and Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Kreyszig)
• Non-Linear Dynamics and Chaos.......................(Non-LInear Dynamics and Chaos, Strogatz)
• Computational Engineering ...............................(Let us C, Kanetkar)
• Foundations of Computational Fluid Dynamics...(CFD, Anderson)
• Design and Optimization of Energy Systems* ....(Essentials of Thermal System Design and Optimization, Balaji)

Laboratory Courses

• Applied mechanics lab
• Mechanical engineering lab I, II and III
• Machine drawing practice (CAD)
• Electrical Sciences Lab
• Workshop I and II
• Physics lab I and lab II
• Chemistry lab I