Dr. Vijay K. Jain passed his B. E. (Mechanical) from Vikram University Ujjain in 1970, and M. E. (Production) from University of Roorkee in the year 1973. He did his Ph.D. from University of Roorkee in Mechanical Engineering in the year 1980. He has forty three years of teaching and research experience. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and University of Nebraska at Lincoln (USA). He retired as a Professor (HAG) from IIT Kanpur after serving for thirty three years. He has also served as a faculty at other Indian institutions, namely, M. R. Engineering College Jaipur, B. I. T. S. Pilani, and M. N. R. Engineering College Allahabad. Presently, Dr. Jain is working as an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (MP).
Dr. Jain has won three gold medals, two silver medals and one best paper award as recognition to his research work. The Institution of Engineers (India), Khosla Research Awards committee and All India Manufacturing Technology Design and Research conference organizing committee have given this honor to him. Dr. Jain has written nine books (including edited books) and more than sixteen chapters for different books published by international and national publishers. He has been awarded Life Time Achievement Award by the AIMTDR (NAC).
Dr. V. K. Jain has been appointed as an Editor-in-chief for three journals (IJPTech, JAMS, JMME), a Full Editor of two International Journals and Associate Editor of three International Journals. He has also worked as a Guest-Editor for more than fifteen special issues of different International Journals. He has been opted as a member of the editorial board of more than twelve International Journals.
Dr. Jain has organized 20 + summer/ winter/ short term schools on various topics such as Micromanufacturing, Micromachining, Advanced Machining Techniques, Precision Engineering, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Design of Machine Tools, N. C. Machine Tools, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Tools and Die making, etc; and two Contact Programs for undergraduate students at national level. He has edited the proceedings of these schools also.
He has Eleven Indian patents and one USA patent to his credit. Dr. Jain has operated Twenty Five research projects sponsored by different agencies in India. Dr. Jain also brought seven consultancy projects from private and public undertakings.
Dr. Jain has guided Fifteen theses of Ph.D. students. He has also guided Ninety Two M. Tech. / M.E. theses, 9 M.E. Projects and more than Thirty B.Tech. / B.E. Projects while working at different universities during his carrier. He has around 325 publications to his credit. He has published about 215 research papers in referred Journals, 120+ in conference proceedings, 11 in popular magazines. He has delivered more than twenty six keynote lectures in different conferences / workshops / Universities across the globe.
Dr. Jain has been opted as Vice-President of the National Advisory Committee of AIMTDR (India) consecutively for two terms (Four Years). He has also served as a member of national committees like PAC of International programs of Materials and Engg. Sc., R & D Lab. accreditation committee (DST), Program Advisory committee (DST, PAC-(Robotics & Manufacturing)), Management Advisory Committee (DST, MAC), National Advisory Committee for Precision Engineering, and National Advisory Committee of AIMTDR.
At the Institute level, Dr. Jain has served two terms as Chairman of Commercial Establishment Monitoring & Management Committee, Institute Gas Service Users Committee, two terms as Chairman Health Center Users Committee, and two terms as Chairman Institute Assessment Committee. He has also served two terms as Convener of DPGC, Department Space Allocation Committee, Department Funds Allocation Committee and three times as Convener Project Evaluation Committee . He has served as a member of various Department and Institute level committees and Warden of Hall of residence 5.