AICTE NEQIP sponsored Short Term Course on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial applications July 20-24, 2015

This short term course was aimed at dissemination of the latest information to the participants in order to enrich their knowledge in the emerging areas of Mechanical Engineering research. The one week short term course was supported by AICTE NEQIP and the course was designed covering a wide range of topics of current research trends in Mechanical Engineering. We had participation from regional institutions. Distinguished professors from IIT Guwahati and other universities including Tezpur University joined the course as resource persons for delivering lectures on current topics of research related to ME. We had resource persons from industry also. The following were the resource persons

Sl No	Name	Affiliation	Topic
1	Anoop K. Dass	Professor & HOD, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati	I. Basic discretization methods for the governing equations of Fluid Mechanics
			II. Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
2	Debabrata Chakraborty	Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati	Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
			-- Basics, Advances and Challenges
			-- Computational and Experimental Research.
3	Dilip Datta	Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tezpur University	Combinatorial Optimization
4	P. Muthukumar	Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati	I. Energy Efficient and Green Energy Technologies
			II. Metal Hydride based Thermal Machines
5	TapanKumar Gogoi	Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tezpur University	An overview of thermodynamic cogeneration systems and a case study of thermodynamic analysis of a reheat regenerative vapor power cycle
6	Partha Pratim Dutta	Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tezpur University	Biomass gasification
7	Uday S. Dixit	Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati	I. Autofrettage of Thick-walled Cylinders
			II. Inverse Problems in Manufacturing
8	Santosha K. Dwivedi	Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati	I. Active Vibration reduction using MRE materials
			II. Use of MATLAB in teaching SOM and Kinematics of Machinery courses
9	Shyamanta M. Hazarika	Professor & Head, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Tezpur University	Bio-signals based Human-Machine Interaction
10	Pradip Lingfa	Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, NERIST	Opportunities and challenges of non-edible based biodiesel as an alternative fuel for a diesel engine
11	S. Bordoloi	Head-Production Gas, Oil India Limited	Challenges related to mechanical engineering in upstream petroleum industry
12	H. K. Nath	DGM, Numaligarh Refinery Limited	Concepts of Maintenance and its advancements