PRAVIN SINGRU, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering RES: C-204, BITS-Pilani Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa -403726

OFF: A313/6, BITS-Pilani Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa -403726

Phone : 0832-2580338 (o) 9763572624 ( M)

Email: pravinsingru@gmail.com, pmsingru@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Web: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/pmsingru/profile

DATE OF BIRTH : 17/03/1969

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Sr.

No

Degree Institute

% of marks

/CGPA

Year of

passing

1. B. E. (Mech.

Engg)

Visvesvaraya Regional College of

Engineering, Nagpur

73.54 % 1989

2. M. Tech

(Mech.

Engg)

Indian Institute of Technology,

Kharagpur

8.5 1991

3. Ph. D.

(Mech.

Engg)

Visvesvaraya National Institute of

Technology, Nagpur (RTM

Nagpur University, Nagpur)

--- 2005

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1. Joined as Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Chandrapur Engineering College,

Chandrapur in August 1991. CAS promotion as Senior Lecturer in August 1996 and

Lecturer (Selection Grade) in August 2001.

2. Joined as Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, Goa

Campus on 30/11/2005. Working as Head of the Department, Mechanical Engineering

since July 2006. Additional Charge as In-Charge (Workshop) since July 2009.

3. Promoted as Associate Professor w.e.f. February 1, 2013

FIELD OF INTEREST:

• Machine Dynamics, Vibrations and Chaos

• Optimization using Genetic Algorithms.

• Experimental Vibration Analysis

• Solid Mechanics

• Mechanisms & Robotics

RESEARCH PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:

1. Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) done from Visvesvaraya Regional

College of Engineering, Nagpur. Dissertation title, " Qualitative Analysis of Manual

Handling Operations of a Winding Machine and Suggestion of a Robot as an Improved

Alternative". Guide Prof. A.S. Dhundi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,

Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur. This project was successfully

implemented at Empress Mill, Nagpur, in 1989.

2. Master of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology,

Kharagpur. Project was " Optimal control of Hydro-Pneumatic Suspension System".

Guide Prof. Amlendu Mukherjee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Defense

Research and Development Organization sponsored this project in 1990-91. Extensive

Computer Simulation was performed to fix different parameters of Hydro-Pneumatic

Suspension System used in Battle tanks.

3. Doctor Of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering. Registered in Nagpur University,

Nagpur with Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur as place of

research (2005). The dissertation is on "Dynamic and Vibration Response of Pulleys

of a Belt Drive". Guide Dr. J.P. Modak, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Dean

(R&D), Priyadarshini College of Engineering and Architecture, Nagpur.

POST-GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISED

1. Bhushan Bhupta “An Expert System for Fault Diagnosis of Rotary Machines.” ,

Nagpur University, (2005)

2. Sravani Duddu “ Design of MEMS based LPG sensor”, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla

Goa campus (2010)

3. Allen Anil Kumar, “ Hysteretic Seat Design and Control of Passenger Vibrations

in a Quarter Car Model” (2012)

4. Ashwin K.P. “ A Study on the Dynamics of Electrostatically Actuated Micro-

Resonator Considering Squeeze Filp Damping Effects”(2012)

UNDER-GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISED 1. T. Nishchel Sai Kumar “Active Suspension Control in a Quarter Car Model Using

Hω Synthesis” (2013)

2. Raghav Parwal, “Detection and tracking of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles using

MEMS based Infrared sensors installed in Small Satellites (2014)

3. Shreyas Habbu, “MODAL ANALYSIS OF PARTIALLY FILLED

RECTANGULAR TANKS WITH FLEXIBLE WALLS” (2014)

4. Kousik Papakollu, “PID Controller Design of Non-linear Coupled Passenger-car

Model for Controlling Passenger Vibrations and Suspension Deflection” (2014)

5. Ayush Raizada, “Experimental Analysis of MR Dampers”(2015)

6. Akshay Sundar, “ Acoustic Study of Membrane Type Musical

Instruments(Ghumot)” (2015)

7. Hancel PV, “Study of musical instruments using its acoustic signatures (Sarasvati

Veena)” (2015)

8. Vishnuvardhan Krishnakumar, “ Condition Monitoring to predict bearing failure”

(2015)

Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISED

Sr.

No.

Name of

candidate

Title of Ph.D. Thesis Status

1 K.V.R.B.

Prasad

Genetic algorithms for optimum design

of turbo-alternator

Thesis defended

successfully in

January 2012

2 Raghavendra

D. Naik

Stability, Resonance and Bifurcation in

Vehicle Suspension System

Thesis Defended

successfully in

October 2014

3 Kiran D. Mali Vibration Analysis of Perforated Plates. Thesis Defended

successfully in

January 2016

4. D.K.Mohanty Effect of Fouling on the Performance of

a Heat Exchanger

Thesis defended

successfully in

July, 2012

5. Varinder Singh Development of Models for Analysis and

Design of Integrated Manufacturing

System

Thesis defended

successfully in

October, 2013

6 Amit Rajput Preparation and characterization of

polybenzoxazine-ferrite based magnetic

nanocomposite, Prof. N.N. Ghosh

(Supervisor), Prof. P.M. Sigru(co-

supervisor)

Thesis defended

successfully in

October, 2013

7. Devendra

Shahare Design of Controllers for Semi-active

Suspension System for Half Car Model

Using Magneto Rheological Damper. Co-

supervisor: Dr. N.S. Manjrekar, EEE

Proposal

submitted in

April 2017

8 Vivek Chandran Gyro-less Attitude and Attitude-Rate

Estimation For A Satellite Using Non Linear

Models and Star Vector Observations. Co-

supervisor: Dr. N.S. Manjrekar, EEE

Proposal

submitted in

April 2017

PATENTS:

1. Singru Pravin Madanrao, Gupta Appurv, Kalola Meet Govindbhai, Bana Ankit,

“Human powered multi-purpose machine”, Application No. :201611017379,

Application Filing Date: 18 May 2016.

2. P.M. Singru , S. Deopujari, R. Shetty, B. Mistry, “An Endotracheal Tube For Measuring

Endotracheal Pressure” Application No .201711011547, Application Filing Date: March

30, 2017

RESEARCH FUNDING

1. Received a grant of Rs. 30 Lakhs in terms of software to establish MEMS DESIGN

CENTER at BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla, Goa Campus from NPMASS.

2. Received grant of Rs.80 lakhs under DST FIST for upgrading research infrastructure of

Mechanical Department.

3. Project titled “RO-RO Mission Systems Project for C-130 Aircraft (University

Research Agreement Phase 2 Research Grant) funded by Lockhead Martin Corporation,

USA was approved in February 2015. The amount of fund received is $25,000 (Rs.

15.79 Lakhs), grant received on 06.05.2015.

4. DST -SERB the project titled, "An acoustic study, characterization and standardization

of the Sarasvati Veena ". approved on January 4, 2017, amount Rs. 36..96 Lakhs under

EMR Grant scheme. Co-PI: Prof. Radhika Vathsan, Physics

RESEARCH PAPERS IN NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

HELD IN INDIA:

1. P.M.Singru et. al. 1988 Proceedings of IPPROM-88 organized by Visvesvaraya

Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur, Qualitative Analysis of Manual

Handling Operations of a Winding Machine and Suggestion of Robot as an

Improved Alternative.

2. P.M.Singru et. al. 1997 Proceedings of National Seminar on Emerging Trends in

Design Engineering, Organized by Institution of Engineers (I), at

M.N.R.Engineering College, Allahabad (India), I26–I36 . Computer Aided Design

of Mechanical Systems.

3. P.M. Singru et.al.1998 Proceedings of National Conference on Intelligent

Manufacturing Systems – A Technology Watch, Organized by Coimbatore Institute

of Technology, Coimbatore, (India) , D1.1-D1.8 Computer Aided Design of

Mechanical Systems (CADOMS) Ver. 3.0.

4. P.M.Singru et. al. 1999 Proceedings of National Seminar on Technology

Management Beyond 2000 , Organised by Gramin Polytechnic, Nanded on

November 23-24, 1999 pp 132-134. Genetic Algorithm Used for Finding the

Global Maxima/ Minima of a Vibration Analysis Problem.

5. P.M.Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of National Conference on Industrial Problems

in Machines and Mechanisms Organized by Priyadarshini College of Engineering

and Architecture, Nagpur, 57-64 Load Variation of the Arms of the Belt Drive

Pulley.

6. P.M.Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of National Conference on Industrial Problems

in Machines and Mechanisms Organized by Priyadarshini College of Engineering

and Architecture, Nagpur, 84-90 Dynamic Stress Analysis of Arms of Belt Drive

Pulley Using Finite Element Method.

7. P.M.Singru and J.P.Modak 2000 Proceedings of the National Symposium on

Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics, organized by Indian Institute of

Technology, Kanpur, Proposed Experimental Setup for Studying Dynamic and

Vibration Response of Belt Drive Pulley.

8. P.M.Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of National Seminar on Basic Sciences –

Engineering Forte Organised by Chandrapur Engineering College , Chandrapur on

January 28, 2000, pp 61-66. Genetic Algorithm : A New Numerical Method, Used

for Solving Vibration Analysis Problem

9. P.M.Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of National Seminar on Basic Sciences –

Engineering Forte Organised by Chandrapur Engineering College , Chandrapur on

January 28, 2000, pp 67-71. Numerica 2000 : A software Developed for Solving

Numerical Methods and Matrix Problems

10. P.M.Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of National Seminar on Basic Sciences –

Engineering Forte Organised by Chandrapur Engineering College , Chandrapur on

January 28, 2000, pp 79-82 Differential Calculus : An Expert System Software.

11. P.M.Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of National Seminar on Basic Sciences –

Engineering Forte Organised by Chandrapur Engineering College , Chandrapur on

January 28, 2000, pp 83-87 Softgraph 2000 : A New Software for Plotting Graphs.

12. P.M.Singru and M.M.Raghuwanshi 2004 Proceedings of National Conference on

Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering, Organised by K.D.K. Engg. College,

Nagpur 0n Feb 05-06, 2004. Formulation of Optimum Design of Finger Type

Clutch Using Genetic Algorithms.

13. P.M.Singru and M.R. Deshmukh 2005 Proceedings of National Conference on

Machines and Mechanisms 2005, organized by I.I.T., Guwahati in December 2005.

Vibration Based Condition Monitoring of Induced Draught Fan: Some Interesting

Findings.

14. P.M.Singru and M.R. Deshmukh 2005 Proceedings of National Conference on

Machines and Mechanisms 2005, organized by I.I.T., Guwahati in December 2005.

Simple Mechanics to Explain 0.5X Component in 210 MW Turbo Generator Set.

15. P.M. singru & KVRB Prasad"Optimum Design of Electrical Machines using

Genetic Algorithm: An Overview and Future Research Paths" presented in

"National Conference on Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering - (NCRAEE-

2007). The conference was organised by Vignan's Instituteof Information

Technology, Visakhapatnam, A.P., INDIA. Pp 4-26 to 4-33, 9th and 10th March,

2007.

16. Raghavendra D. Naik, Pravin M. Singru, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Control

of Vehicle Suspension System, Topical Problems in Solid Mechanics, BITS-Pilani

K K Birla Goa Campus, December 2009, Pages 420-427.

17. K.V.R.B. Prasad and Pravin M. Singru, International Journal of Electrical,

Computer, and Systems Engineering, WASET accepted for International

Conference and will be published in journal after presentation “Evolution of New

Design Principals of Turbo-Alternator Design using Genetic Algorithm,” 2010

18. Singh, V. and Singru, P.M. (2011), “A New Methodology to Facilitate

Restructuring in Manufacturing Systems”, Proc. of the International Conference on

Sustainable Manufacturing: Issues, Trends and Practices (ICSM – 2011), BITS,

Pilani, India, November 10-12, 2011, pp. 163-169.

19. Kareti V.R.B. Prasad and Pravin M. Singru "Optimum Design of Turbo-Alternator

Using Modified NSGA-II Algorithm" , accepted for presentation & publication in

Seventh International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and

Application, December 14 - 16, 2012 held at ABV IIITM, Gwalior.

20. K.V.R.B. Prasad and Pravin M. Singru, 2010, Proceedings of ITC-2010

International Conference on Recent Trends in Information, Telecommunication

and Computing - 2010 held at Kochi, Kerala on March 12-13, 2010, pp, 150-158,

Identifying the Optimum Design of Turbo-Alternator Using Different Multi-

objective Optimization Algorithms.

21. K.V.R.B. Prasad & Pravin M. Singru “ “Performance of Lognormal Probability

Distribution in Crossover Operator of NSGA-II Algorithm” published in

“8th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning ” held at IIT-

Kanpur, Kanpur from 1st to 4th of December, 2010,SEAL 2010 proceedings, Code:

LNCS 6457, pp. 514-522, 2010.

22. Kiran D. Mali and Pravin M. Singru, "An Analytical Model to Determine

Fundamental Frequency of Free Vibration of Perforated Plate by Using Greatest

Integer Functions to Express Non Homogeneity", 3rd International Conference on

Manufacturing Science and Technology - ICMST 2012, August 18 - 19, 2012, New

Delhi, India (accepted for publication and presentation)

23. Pravin M. Singru & D. Srivastava "Design and Computational Analysis of MEMS

based Direct Methanol Fuel Cell", COMSOL Conference Bangalore , 3-4,

November, 2012

24. Kiran D. Mali, Parth S. Joshi, Pravin M. Singru, "Free vibration analysis of simply

supported square plates with square perforation pattern of square holes" accepted

for 57th ISTAM Congress an International meet to be held in DIAT, Pune on

December 17-21-2012.

25. Pravin M. Singru & D. Srivastava "Design and Computational Analysis of MEMS

based Direct Methanol Fuel Cell", COMSOL Conference Bangalore , 3-4,

November, 2012.

26. R. D. Naik & P. M. Singru, “Formulation of Squeeze Film Damping Forces on

Micro Resonator Considering Electrostatic Actuation Effects”, International

Conference on Emerging Technologies-Micro to Nano 2013 Goa, 113-114.

27. Akash Aishwarya, R. D. Naik & P. M. Singru, “Dynamics of Capacitive Dual

Backplate Mems Microphone” , International Conference on Perspectives in

Nonlinear Dynamics, TIFR-UOH, Hyderabad July 15-18, 2013.

28. Ashwin PK.P., R.D. naik and P.M. Singru,”Formulation of Squeeze Film

damping Forces on Micro-Resonator Considering Electrostatic Acuation Effects”

International Conference on Emerging Technologies Micro to Nano-2013, held in

BITS Pilani Goa campus , 23-24 February 2013, pp 113-114 29. Anish D. Shah, Nishant R. Chokhani, Rohit S. Lad, Kiran D. Mali and Pravin

M. Singru ” Effect of thermal gradient on free vibration of rectangular plate with

thickness varying exponentially in one direction” , The 5th Asia and Pasific Young

Researchers & Graduates symposium in Current challenges in structural

engineering, held in MNIT Jaipur on October 15-16, 2013.

30. Samarth Mathur, Ayush Raizada, Pravin Singru and Radhika Vathsan,

“Experimental acoustic analysis of Sarasvati Veena”, paper no. 98,iNACOMM

2015, held at IIT Kanpur on December 16-19, 2015

31. Pravin Singru, Ayush Raizada and Vishnuvardhan Krishnakumar,” A study of

various methods for system identification of continuous systems”, paper no. 59,

iNACOMM 2015, held at IIT Kanpur on December 16-19, 2015.

32. Pravin Singru, Ayush Raizada , Vishnuvardhan Krishnakumar, Akhil Garg, “Modeling of a Magneto-Rheological (MR) Damper using Genetic Programming”

presented in XII IPRoMM NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INDUSTRIAL

PROBLEMS ON MACHINES & MECHANISMS during December 22-23, 2016

held at VNIT, Nagpur. (Won prize as third best paper)

RESEARCH PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ABROAD

1. P.M. Singru and Anish Alias 2000, Proceedings of International Conference on

Intelligent Flexible Autonomous Manufacturing System Towards Rapid Design

Exploration and Optimization, held at Coimbatore Institute of Technology,

Coimbatore (India). Computer Aided Design of Machines.

2. P.M. Singru et.al 2000, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Shell and

Spatial Structures , Organized by National Technical University of Athens , Greece

Dynamic and Vibration Response of Arm of a Belt Drive Pulley - Part- I.

3. P.M. Singru et.al 2000, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Shell and

Spatial Structures, Organized by National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Computer Aided Design and Visualization of Machine Elements: An Expert System

Approach .

4. P.M. Singru et. al. 2000 Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Shell and

Spatial Structures , Organized by National Technical University of Athens ,

Greece. Effect of Different Parameters on the Dynamic Stresses Developed in

Helical Gear.

5. P.M. Singru 2000 Proceedings of 16th International Conference on CAD/CAM,

Robotics and Factories of Future, Organised by University of West Indies, St.

Augustine, Trinidad, WI. Computer Aided Design, Drafting, Analysis and

Manufacture of Machine Elements.

6. P.M.Singru and M.M. Raghuwanshi 2004 International Conference on Modelling

and Optimization Organised by Centro de Modelaciony Computacion Cientifica, at

Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile on January 19-22, 2004. Formulation

of Multi-objective Optimum Design Problem of Finger Type Clutch Using Multi-

objective Optimization.

7. P.M. Singru ,et.al.,2004 International Conference Complex 2004 held on Dec

09-11, 2004 at Craine , Austrelia. Synthesis of Modified Simulated Binary

Crossover with Lognormal Distribution.

8. Raghavendra D. Naik, Pravin M. Singru,” Stability of a Nonlinear 2 Degree-of-

Freedom Vehicle System with Multiple Time-delays”, 15th International

Conference on Experimental Mechanics Porto, 22-27 July 2012

9. Kiran D. Mali and Pravin M. Singru ,” Free Vibration Analysis of Perforated Plate

by using Unit Step Functions to Express Non homogeneity” , 15th International

Conference on Experimental Mechanics Porto, 22-27 July 2012 (accepted for

publication and presentation)

10. Raghavendra D. Naik, Pravin M. Singru, “Heteroclinic bifurcation of a nonlinear

oscillator with multiple time-delays”, International Conference on Automation,

Mechatronics and Robotics (ICAMR'2012) that will take place on August 11-12,

2012 in Phuket (Thailand).

11. Allen Anilkumar and Pravin M Singru, "Seat Design and Control of Passenger

Vibrations in a Quarter Car Model Using h_∞ Controller", 11th International

Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, 1 – 3 July 2013, held at

University of Pisa, Italy,

12. P.M. Singru, V. Jain, N. Kumar, S. Habbu, "Development Of Predictive Model

Using Machine Learning Algorithm For Vibro-acoustic Condition Monitoring of

Lathe", accepted for publication in 14th ASME International Mechanical

Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held on Nov. 14-20, 2014.

13. P.M. Singru, et.al.,” Design Of MEMS Based Piezo-resistive Sensor For Measuring

Pressure In Endo-tracheal Tube” ASME's International Mechanical Engineering

Congress and Exposition (IMECE) held in Housten, USA, Nov-13-19,2015.(paper

accepted)

14. Pravin Singru, Krishnakuma Vishnuvardhan, Raizada Ayush” Bearing failure

prediction using fast fourier transform, wigner-ville distribution and modified

Poincare mapping” accepted for publication in 23rd International Congress on

Sound and Vibration (ICSV23) held in Athens, Greece, from 10 to 14 July 2016.

15. Singru Pravin, Vathsan Radhika, Sundar Akshay, Hancel PV, “Study of Sarasvati

veena- a south indian musical instruments using its vibro-acoustic signatures”

accepted for publication in 23rd International Congress on Sound and Vibration

(ICSV23) held in Athens, Greece, from 10 to 14 July 2016. (not published)

16. Singru Pravin, Vathsan Radhika, Sundar Akshay, Hancel PV, “Vibro-Acoustic

study of the Ethnic Indian Musical Instrument Ghumot and determination of

number of unique tones”, accepted for publication in 23rd International Congress

on Sound and Vibration (ICSV23) held in Athens, Greece, from 10 to 14 July 2016.

(not published)

17. Paavni Shukla, Pravin M Singru and Narayan Manjrekar,” A Study of H infinity and

H2 synthesis for Active Vibration Control”, accepted for publication in 4th

International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical

Systems to be held in NIT Trichy on Feb 1-5, 2016 , published by Science direct

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896316301252)

RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

1. P.M. Singru and J.P. Modak 2000 International Journal of Sound and Vibration.

Vol.242, No. 2, April 2001,pp 277-293. Computer Simulation of Dynamic and

Vibration Response of Arm of a Belt Drive Pulley.(Impact Factor 1.857)

2. P.M. Singru and J.P. Modak Journal of Sound and Vibration. Vol.279, No.3-5, January

2005, pp 1037-1070. Dynamics Of Arm Of A Flat Belt Drive Pulley With Explanation

Of Belt Flutter. (Impact Factor 1.857)

3. M.M. Raghuwanshi, P.M. Singru, U. Kale, O.G.Kakde 2008, Synthesis of Modified

Simulated Binary Crossover with Lognormal Distribution, Complexity International,

Volume 12, Paper ID: msid01, URL: http://www.complexity.org.au/vol12/msid01/

4. Raghavendra D. Naik, Pravin M. Singru, Mechanics Research Communication,

Establishing the Limiting Conditions of Operation of Magnetorheological Fluid

Dampers in Vehicle Suspension System. Volume 36, Issue 8, December 2009, Pages

957-962. (Impact Factor 1.4) (SCI and scopus)(citations=11)

5. K.V.R.B. Prasad and Pravin M. Singru, 2010, International Journal of Energy Systems,

Computers and Control, "Identifying the Optimum Design of Turbo-Alternator Using

Differential Evolution Algorithms" Volume 1, No. 1, January-June 2010, pp. 33-56.

6. K.V.R.B. Prasad and Pravin M. Singru,2010, International Journal of Electrical

Engineering (IJEE), Optimum Design of Turbo-Alternator using Differential Evolution

Algorithms, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 25--44 (ISSN 0974-2158)

7. R.D. Naik and P. M. Singru, Resonance stability and chaotic vibration of a quarter-car

vehicle model with time delay feedback, Communications in nonlinear science and

numerical simulation, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 3397-3410. (Impact Factor 2.834) (citations=29)(Scopus)

8. Dillip K. Mohanty & Pravin M. Singru, Use of C-Factor for monitoring of fouling in a

shell and tube heat exchanger, Energy. Volume 36, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 2899-

2904 (Impact factor = 4.292), (citations =20)(SCI and scopus)

9. Kiran D. Mali and Pravin M. Singru "Determination of The Fundamental Frequency

Of Perforated Plate With Rectangular Perforation Pattern of Circular Holes by Negative

Mass Approach for the Perforation "International journal of Advanced Materials

Manufacturing and Characterization. ,Vol 1, issue 1, March 2012,PP 105-109. (ISSN

2277-3886)

10. Varinder Singh & Pravin M. Singru "Analysis of Restructuring in a

Manufacturing system using Graph Theoretic Model", Journal of Manufacturing

Technology Management, Vol. 24 Iss: 4, pp.615 – 636, 2013.(Scopus, H-Index=45)

11. Rajput A., Ghosh N.N. and Singru P.M. "Synthesis, characterization and properties of

flexible magnetic nanocomposites of CoFe2O4- polybenzoxazine- LLDPE ", Journal

of Applied Polymer Science, Volume 128, Issue 6, 15 June 2013, Pages: 3726–3733 .

(Impact factor = 1.6) (SCI and scopus)(Citations =6) 12. Dillip Kumar Mohanty and P M Singru" Numerical method for heat transfer and

fouling analysis of a shell and tube heat exchanger using statistical analysis", Korean

J. Chem. Eng.,Springer, 29(9), 1144-1150, 2012. (Impact factor = 1.408) (SCI and

scopus)(Citations =3) 13. Mali K.D.and Singru P.M. "An analytical model to determine fundamental frequency

of free vibration of perforated plate by using unit step functions to express non

homogeneity", Journal of Vibro-Engineering, Vol 14, Issue 3, pp 1292-1296,

September 2012. (Impact factor = 0.384) (SCI and scopus) (Citations =7)

14. R.D. Naik and P. M. Singru "Stability and Hopf bifurcation of a Nonlinear oscillator

with multiple time-delays" ,Chaos, Solitons & Fractals Volume 45, Issue

11, November 2012, Pages 1387-1396. (Impact factor = 1.611) (SCI and scopus)

(Citations =4) 15. Kiran D. Mali, Pravin M. Singru " An Analytical Model to Determine Fundamental

Frequency of Free Vibration of Perforated Plate by Using Greatest Integer Functions

to Express Non Homogeneity" Advanced Materials Research Vols. 622-623 (2013) pp

600-604, (2013) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland,

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.622-623.600. (SCI Indexed)

16. Rajput A., Ghosh N.N. and Singru P.M.” Preparation of flexible magnetic

nanocomposites of 3 linear low-density polyethylene-polybenzoxazine-magnetic

nanoparticles 4 and their mechanical and magnetic properties”, Journal of Nanoscience

Letters,2013,3:26, (http://www.cognizure.com/abs/109637285.aspx)

17. Kiran D. Mali, Pravin M. Singru "An Analytical Model to Determine Fundamental

Frequency of Rectangular Plate Having Rectangular Array of Circular

Perforations" Journal of Vibro-Engineering Vol 2, 2013, pp 588-596. (Impact factor =

0.384) (SCI and scopus)

18. Kiran Mali and Pravin Singru "Determination of the fundamental frequency of

perforated rectangular plates: concentrated negative mass approach for the

perforation," Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, (accepted for publication,

May 12,2013), Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 972409, 6 pages (ESCI Indexed)

19. Garg, A., Tai, K., Vijayaraghavan, V. and Singru, P.M. "Mathematical Modelling of

Burr Height of the Drilling Process Using a Statistical Based Multi-Gene Genetic

Programming Approach", International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing

Technology July 2014, Volume 73, Issue 1-4, pp 113-126. (Impact factor = 1.779)(citations =21) (SCI and scopus)

20. Kiran Mali and Pravin Singru “Determination of modal constant for fundamental

frequency of perforated plate by Rayleigh's method using experimental values of

natural frequency”, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 20, No. 3,

2015 (pp. 177-184), 2015. (Impact factor = 0.284)(ESCI) (Citations =2)

21. Raghavendra D. Naik & Pravin M. Singru,” Stability of a Nonlinear Quarter-Car

System with Multiple time-Delays”, International Journal of Acoustics and

Vibration, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2015, pp 90-94 (Impact factor = 0.284) )(ESCI) 22. Garg, A., Vijayaraghavan, V. and Singru, P.M" An Integrated Computational

Approach for determining the Elastic Properties of Boron Nitride Nanotubes",

International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, March 2015, Volume 11,

Issue 1, pp 1-14 (In press, doi: 10.1007/s10999-014-9262-1) (Impact Factor= 1.926)

(citations=19) (SCI and scopus) 23. Dillip Kumar Mohanty and P M Singru, " Fouling analysis of a shell & tube heat

exchanger using local linear wavelet neural network", International Journal of Heat and

Mass Transfer, Elsevier. Volume 77, October 2014, Pages 946–955 (Impact Factor=

2.857)(Citation=8)(Scopus) 24. V Vijayaraghavan, A. Garg, C.H Wong, K. Tai, Pravin M. Singru” Investigation of

Mechanical Strength of 2-D Nanoscale Structures using a Molecular dynamics based

computational intelligence approach”, International Journal of Modern Physics Letters

B. 29, pp (1450242-1-18) (2015) [18 pages] DOI: 10.1142/S0217979214502427

(Impact factor = 0.37)

25. Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan, Akhil Garg, Chee How Wong, Kang Tai, K Sumithra,

Liang Gao, Pravin M Singru, “Combined CI-MD approach in formulation of

engineering moduli of single layer graphene sheet”, Simulation Modelling Practice and

Theory, Volume 48, November 2014, Pages 93–111. (Impact factor =

1.482)(citations=19) (SCI and scopus)

26. A Garg, V Vijayaraghavan, C H Wong, K Tai, K Sumithra, K Sumithra, Pravin M. Singru,

Leehter Yao,” Application of artificial intelligence technique for modeling elastic properties

of 2-D nanoscale material”, Molecular simulation”, Volume 41, Issue 14,pp 1143-1152,

2015 (doi:10.1080/08927022.2014.951351) Taylor and Francis . (Impact factor =

1.678).(Scopus)

27. Kiran Mali and Pravin Singru, “On The Use of Greatest Integer Function to Express Material

Property Variation in Free Vibration Problem of Simply Supported Square Plates with Square

Array of Circular Perforations” Procedia Material Science, 6 ( 2014 ) 409 – 416.

28. V. Vijayaraghavan, A. Garg, C. H. Wong, K. Tai, K. Pravin M. Singru, and L. Gao, “On the

Study of Machining Characteristics of 2-D Nanoscale Material”, Nanoscience Nanotechnology

Letters. 6, 1079-1086 (2014) (IF=1.44)

29. A Garg, V Vijayaraghavan, K Tai, Pravin M. Singru, L. Gao and K.S. Sangwan, “An ensemble

evolutionary approach in evaluation of surface finish reduction of vibratory finishing process”,

Engineering Computations, Vol. 32 and Issue 5, pp. 1214 – 1229, 2015 (IF=1.206)

30. P. Kousik, Pravin M Singru and Narayan Manjrekar,” Comparing PID and H-∞ Controllers on

a 2-DoF Nonlinear Quarter Car Suspension System” Journal of Vibro-Engineering, Vol 8,

pp 3977-3990. (Impact factor = 0.384) (SCI and scopus)

31. Vijayaraghavan, V., Garg, A., Wong, C.H., Tai, K., Singru, M. Pravin, Gao L and

Sangwan S. K. "A Molecular Dynamics Based Artificial Intelligence Approach for

Characterizing Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Material", Thermochimica Acta. Vol.

594, 20 October 2014, pp. 39-49. (Impact factor = 1.938) (SCI and scopus)

32. A. Garg , V. Vijayaraghavan ,Jasmine Siu Lee Lam , Pravin M Singru, Liang Gao, “A

Molecular Simulation Based Computational Intelligence Study of a 2 Nano-machining

Process with Implications on its Environmental 3 Performance”, Swarm and

Evolutionary Computation. Volume 21, April 2015, Pages 54–63.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210650215000115)(Impact

Factor =2.963)

33. Nikilesh Krishnakumar, Vishal Jain , Pravin M. Singru, “Development of predictive

model for vibro-acoustic condition monitoring of lathe”, Journal of Vibroengineering,

Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2015, p. 229-242(Impact factor = 0.384) (SCI and scopus)

34. Akhi Garg, V Vijayaraghavan, Kang Tai, Pravin M Singru, Vishal jain, Nikilesh

Kumar,“Model Development based on Evolutionary framework for condition

monitoring of a lathe machine”, Measurement , Vol 95 (2015), pp 95-110 (Impact

Factor 1.742) (ESCI and scopus)

35. Pravin Singru,et al., "Development of an Experimental Model for a

Magnetorheological Damper Using Artificial Neural Networks (Levenberg-Marquardt

Algorithm)," Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, vol. 2016, Article ID 7027259, 6

pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/7027259.

36. Akshay Sundar, Hancel P. V., Pravin Singru, Radhika Vathsan Acoustic analysis

and characterization of Indian musical instrument: Ghumot. Journal of Measurements

in Engineering, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2016, p. 122-132.

37. Pravin Singru, Akshay Sundar, Hancel P. V.,Radhika Vathsan , “Study of Sarasvati

Veena – a South Indian musical instrument using its vibro-acoustic signatures”, Journal

of Vibro Engineering, Vol. 18, Issue 5, August 2016, pp 3362-3368. (Impact factor =

0.384) (SCI and scopus)Au

38. Pravin Singru, et al, “ Development of an experimental model for a Magneto-Rheological

(MR) Damper using Genetic Programming”, accepted for publication in Journal of Vibro

Engineering on February 24, 2017. (Impact factor = 0.384) (SCI and scopus)

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Pravin M. Singru, Vishal Jain, Nikilesh Krishnakumar, A. Garg, K. Tai, and V.

Vijayaraghavan, “ Gene Expression Programming in Nanotechnology

Applications”, Evolutionary Computation Techniques and Applications, Editors:

Ashish M. Gujarathi, B. V. Babu, Apple Academic Press, Feb 2016

2. K .V. R. B. Prasad and P. M. Singru, “Performance Improvement of NSGA-II

Algorithm by Modifying Crossover Probability Distribution” , Evolutionary

Computation Techniques and Applications, Editors: Ashish M. Gujarathi, B. V.

Babu, Apple Academic Press, Feb 2016

3. Kiran D. Mali, Pravin M. Singru. An analytical model to determine fundamental

frequency of free vibration of perforated plate by using greatest integer functions

to express non homogeneity:- in Manufacturing Science and Technology III,

Edited by R. Sivakumar, Trans Tech. Publications, Kreuzstrasse 10, 8635 Durnten-

Zurich, Switzerland, December, 2012., ISBN-13: 978-3-03785-563-8

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (RCERT, Chandrapur)

1. Computer Programming in Fortran (1991-1995)

2. Computer Programming in C/C++ (1995- 1999)

3. Computer Aided Design (This includes design of data structures, computer graphics,

FEM, optimization) (since 1995 -2005)

4. Computer Applications -I (Includes design of algorithms and data structures)

5. Engineering Drawing (1991-92)

6. Synthesis of Mechanisms (1995-1999)

7. Finite Element Method (2003-05)

8. Vibrations (2003-05)

COURSES TAUGHT (BITS- Pilani, Goa Campus)

1. Measurement Techniques –II (2 times)

2. Engineering Graphics Lab (3 times)

3. Mechanics of Solids (2 times)

4. Advanced Mechanics of Solids and Kinematics (6 times)

5. Robotics (2 times)

6. Mechanisms and Robotics (4 times)

7. Dynamics of Machines and Vibrations(6 times)

8. Dynamics & Vibrations (2 times)

9. Workshop Practice (3 time)

10. Applied Thermodynamics (2 times)

11. Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity (1 time)

12. Advanced Mechanics of Solids (1 time)

13. Mechanical Vibrations (3 time)

14. Introduction to MEMS

15. Production Techniques I lab (1 time)

16. Mechanical Engineering Design -I (WILP) 2016 (1 time)

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPIRIENCE ( RCERT, Chandrapur)

1. Year In-Charge of B.E. II Year from 1996-97 to 2001-2002.

2. Officer-In-Charge, Nagpur University Summer Examination 2002, at Rajeev Gandhi

College of Engineering, Research and Technology, Chandrapur.

3. In Charge of Reference and Journals section Library Committee for the session 2002-

2003, at Rajeev Gandhi College of Engineering, Research and Technology,

Chandrapur.

4. Co-Chairman, Research Committee for the session 2002-2003 at Rajeev Gandhi

College of Engineering, Research and Technology, Chandrapur.

5. Vice Chancellor’s Nominee on Selection Committee at K.I.T.S., Ramtek (January 31,

2004)

6. Member of Local Enquiry Committee at Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru Engineering

College Nagpur (September 23, 2003)

7. Vice Chancellor’s Nominee on Placement Committee at Manoharbhai Patel College of

Engineering Gondia.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPIRIENCE (BITS-PILANI, GOA CAMPUS)

1. Member of selection committee for non-teaching staff (12/12/2005, 23/01/2006,

25/07/2006).

2. Purchase committee member for workshop material purchase.

3. Group Leader, Mechanical Engineering since July, 2006 till October 2011.

4. Nucleus Member of Placement and Practice School Division. In charge of

Placement.(2008-10)

5. Member of Task Force for Vision document, Mission 2012, Vision 2020.

Represented Academic Counseling Task Force.

6. Member of selection committee for teaching and non teaching staff of Mechanical

Engineering since 2006-2011

7. Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Since October 2011 to November

2013.

8. Faculty In Charge (Workshop) since July 2009 to December 2013.

9. Member of selection committee for selection of Operations Assistants and

Technician, July 2013.

10. Organised Reflections 2012, closing event of Mission 2012 in November 2012.

11. Associate Dean (Practice School Division) from January 2014 to May 2015.

12. Member of Faculty and Staff Development Imperative since janury 2014 in Mission

2015.

13. Faculty In Charge (Placements) since January 2014 to December 2014.

ACADEMIC EXPIRIENCE (RCERT, Chandrapur)

1. Resource Faculty at short-term training program on "Computer Awareness for

Engineering College Faculty" conducted at Rajeev Gandhi College of Engineering,

Research and Technology, Chandrapur in April 1999.

2. Coordinator of Workshop on Machine Condition Monitoring, held on March 20, 2004

at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering,

Research and Technology, Chandrapur.

3. Chairman of Mechanical Engineering session in National Level Technical Paper

Presentation Competition “Techno-Tryst-2K4” organized by ISTE Student Chapter,

Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering, Research and Technology, Chandrapur on

March 10,2004.

4. Resource faculty of Maharashtra Center for Entrepreneurship Development in the area

of stress management, communication skills, positive thinking and time management

since July 2004. Delivered four lectures in these areas.

5. Resource Faculty in School on Research Methodology in Engineering held on

November 28-29, 2004 at College of Engineering, Badnera.

6. Resource Faculty in Short Term Training Program of Finite Element Methods and its

Applications held on November 29 to December 10, 2004 at K.D.K. College of

Engineering , Nagpur

7. Resource Faculty in School on Research Methodology in Engineering held on March

23-24, 2005 at J.D.College of Engineering, Yavatmal.

LABORATORY / COURSES DEVELOPED (BITS-PILANI, GOA CAMPUS)

1. Commissioning of MT-II lab (Material Testing lab). Commissioning of UTM, Spring

testing Machine, Load frame, Hardness testing Machine, Impact testing Machine.

2. Coordinator for Design, development and commissioning of Machine Dynamics and

Thermal Science Lab, Fluid Mechanics and Machines lab, Internal combustion

Engines lab, CNC lab. Involved from the stage of calling quotations, making

comparative statement, commercial and technical discussions, installation and

commissioning.

3. Member of organizing committee on workshop on biosensors organized by BITS

Pilani, Goa campus in February, 2006

4. Developed First degree program for TVS Motors in Manufacturing Engineering in

2008.

5. Developed First degree program in Naval Architecture for with Tolani Maritime

Institute, Induri, Pune, in 2008.

6. Design, Development and Installation of Robotics Lab.

7. Design the layout of new Central Workshops Annex building.

8. Development of new course material through a reading course in the area of nano

sensors.

9. Bench marked of curriculum of BE (Hon) Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing

Engineering against top 3 universities in the world. Member of ccDCA which design

the new curriculum in 2011.

10. Bench marked of curriculum of ME, (Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing

Systems Engineering and Design Engineering) against top 3 universities in the world.

Member of ccDCA which design the new curriculum in 2011.

11. Designed the curriculum of ME Thermal Engineering in 2011.

12. Designed new program, MS Automotive Engineering, for WILP division in

collaboration with Tata Technologies, Pune in 2013.

13. In process of designing new programs for WILP division on MS Design Engineering

in non-specific mode. To be submitted to senate approval soon.

14. Designed following Fourth level electives, Nonlinear Vibration (2012), Introduction

to Nanomechanics (2011). These electives are approved by senate.

15. Curriculum redesign of Design related courses of BE MECH Engg.(2015)

16. Developed following experimental setups in Dynamics & Vibration Lab: MR

damper test rig, Condition Monitoring of Bearings Test Rig, SDOF System, Strain

Measurement using NI Labview. (2013-16)

SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES ORGANISED:

1. Coordinator of Workshop on Robotics held on 18th and 19th November 2006.

2. Organizing Secretary of INDO-RUSSIAN WORK SHOP on topical problems in sold

mechanics, sponsored by DST and Russian Academy of Sciences, Nov-11-14,2008

3. Convener, Two day Faculty Development Program for Engineering and Technical

courses in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry on 27 and 28

September 2012 as.

4. Finance Chair, International Conference on on Emerging Miniaturized Technology

Micro to Nano EMTM2N , Feb 22-23, 2013 at BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla, Goa Campus

5. Member of Program Committee 1st International & 16th National Conference on

Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM 2013) to be held at IIT Roorkee between

December 18 to December 20, 2013.

6. Co-Convener, AICTE Sponsored Winter School on “Industrial Applications of

Mechatronics” in collaboration with Agnel Polytechnic, Verna, Goa in December

2013 with a grant of Rs. 7 lakhs.

CONSULTANCY PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:

1. Working as consultant to Maharashtra Center for Entrepreneurship Development,

Nagpur for CAD curriculum development and faculty training. Course held in

December 2004.

2. Working as consultant to Western Coalfield Ltd. Tadali, Dist Chadrapur for

Condition Monitoring of Dragline and software of signature analysis.

3. Working as consultant to Western Coalfield Ltd, Tadali, Dist Chadrapur for Thermal

Stability of Insulation of Coil.

4. Industrial Consultancy to IFB Washing Machine Verna, Goa on failure of drum of

horizontal washing machine (In Progress).

5. Industrial Consultancy to D-Link (India) Ltd., Verna, Goa title “Report on

Manufacturing Process of Motherboard (Gigabyte brand)”.

6. Testing of specimen for M/S. Putzmeister Concrete Machines Pvt. Ltd., Verna, Goa.

7. Testing of welded pipe strength for M/s Jaihind Ltd.

MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

1. Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education since 1994.

2. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers from October 2002.

3. Member of Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Forum of ASME.

REVIEWERSHIP OF JOURNAL & CONFERENCES:

1. Reviewer of Transactions of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. (Reviewed Two

Papers)

2. Reviewer of Journal of sound and Vibration, Elsevier. (Reviewed Two Papers)

3. Reviewer of Transactions of ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics. (Reviewed Two

Papers)

4. Reviewer of National Conference of Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering organized

at K.D.K. Engineering College, Nagpur to be held on Feb 5-6, 2004.

5. Reviewer of IFToMM International Conference

(JULY 11-14, 2006) to be held at Priyadarshini College of

Engineering and Architecture, Nagpur.

6. Reviewer of School of Mechanical Engineering, SRM institute of Science and Technology

(Deemed University), Chennai, India , is organizing the "International Conference on

Advances in Mechanical Engineering" during 14-16, December 2006.

7. Reviewer of Journal of Vibration and Control. (1 paper)

8. Reviewer 1st International & 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms

(iNaCoMM 2013) to be held at IIT Roorkee between December 18 to December 20, 2013.

(2 PAPERS)

9. Reviewer of ASME 2015 -International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

2015. (4 PAPERS) MAY 2015 10. Reviewer of 17th National and 2nd International conference on Machines and

Mechanisms, 2015 (4 papers)

11. Reviewer of Journal of Advances in Vehicle Engineering 2015, (1 paper)

12. Reviewer of Journal of Vibro-engineering (2016) (4 papers)

13. Editor of Journal of Vibro-engineering and Journal of Measurement in Engineering

(March , 2016)

14. Reviewer of Advances in Acoustics and Vibrations (2016) (1 papers)

15. Reviewer of Shock and Vibration (2016) (1 papers)

16. Reviewer of 23rd International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV23) held in Athens,

Greece, from 10 to 14 July 2016. (2 papers)

SESSION CHAIRMAN INVITATION / INVITED TALKS

1. Invited as session chairman in XII IPRoMM NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS ON MACHINES & MECHANISMS during

December 22-23, 2016 held at VNIT, Nagpur. This is a prestigious biennial event

organized under the aegis of Association of Machines and Mechanism (AMM).

2. Invited at a National Conference Books to Bedside as a faculty to give expert talk

on MEMS Based ultra-low pressure sensor in endotracheal tube held in Nagpur

from January 7 to 8, 2017.

3. Invited at a National Conference on Pediatric Critical Care 2016 as a faculty to

give expert talk on Interdisciplinary Research (MEMS Based ultra-low pressure

sensor in endotracheal tube) held in Mumbai from November 12, 2016.

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

1. Attended two weeks GIAN Program funded by MHRD, Govt. of India on the topic

“"Computational Mathematics and Finite Element Method”. It was conducted at

National Institute of Technology, Goa from 01-07-2016 to 11-07-2016. Prof. K.S.

Surana, Distinguished Professor, Kansas University, USA conducted the program.

AWARDS, PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS RECEIVED

1. Merit -cum-Means Scholarship from 1983-1985.

2. UGC scholarship for M.Tech. at Indian Institute Technology, Kharagpur.

3. Best Project Guide Award for guiding project " Advances in Computer Aided

Design of Mechanical Assemblies" at Project Competition arranged by Insitution

of Engineers (India), Nagpur Local Center, Nagpur on March 21 and 22, 1998.

4. Best Project Guide Award for guiding project "Computer Aided Design of

Mechanical Systems" at Project Competition arranged by Akhil Bhartia Vidyarthi

Parishad at Maharashtra Level at Chandrapur Engineering College, Chandrapur on

January 9-10, 1998.