Advances in Engineering Design

Dr. R. K. Tyagi is Professor and Additional Head at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India. He did his master's from HBTI Kanpur and Ph.D. from BIT Mesra in the field of velocity shear Instability. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience, and his research interest includes spray technology, agricultural equipment, automobile engineering, and pollution. He has guided six Ph.D. students and twelve M.Tech. students. He has published 44 research articles in reputed SCI/Scopus indexed journals, 34 book chapters, 29 papers in national/international conferences, and many patents are also granted to his name. He has also been Guest Editor in Material Today Proceeding, Journal of Physics: Conference Series. He has also edited FLAME 2020 Proceeding under Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering Series of Springer Nature.

Dr. Vipin Kaushik is presently working as Assistant Professor (Grade-III) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Noida. He received his B.Tech. degree in mechanical and automation engineering from G S Indraprastha University, Delhi, in 2008. He pursued his M.Tech. in mechanical engineering with machine design as a specialization and completed his Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. He is GATE qualified and has research interests in the area of kinematic chains and mechanisms, materials, design, ergonomics, supply chain management, etc. He has more than 11 years of teaching experience and has published several papers in reputed journals and national and international conferences. He is Faculty Advisor for Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate Club of Mechanical Engineering Department, Amity University Noida. He has guided UG and PG students in their final year projects and dissertation.

Dr. Sachin Singh Gautam is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. He carried out his post-doctoral research at AICES, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He finished his Ph.D. and M.Tech. in the area of high velocity impact problems from IIT Kanpur. He also received funding to enhance the functionalities of ISRO's structural analysis software tool FEASTSMT. Also, his students have been working on research projects in joint collaboration with Siemens R&D, Gurgaon, and Cummins R&D Pune. He has guided 07 Ph.D. students, and presently 06 students are undergoing Ph.D. under his supervision. He has guided 26 M.Tech. students. His research group has received four best paper awards and the best poster award. Two of his master's students have been awarded a DAAD fellowship for carrying out their master thesis project work in German universities. He is also Recipient of the best teacher award.