Mr. Pramod Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has total experience of more than 7 years of teaching Mechanical Engineering and has been associated with Galgotias University since 2018. He is firm Believer of productivity and efficiency in work. He Exhibits an honest work ethic with the ability to excel in fast-paced, time-sensitive, dynamic word. Being a passionate teacher, he believes that teaching is not merely restricted to making the students understand the underlying concepts of a course but also to develop critical thinking and evaluate alternate approaches for problem solving. He always put his efforts towards the overall developments of his students. He has convened/organized more than 20 co-curricular/Extracurricular events for the benefit of students in the past 4 years.

Experience

• 9 years of teaching experience

• 7 years of working in corporates world

Qualification

• Ph. D (Thesis submitted)

• M. Tech (CAD, CAM & Robotics)

• B.E.

Award & Recognition

• SRF-2015 (Faculty Research Fellowship)- IIT Roorkee 

• IRED-(Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors,New York,USA)-Associate Membership, Active 2022-04-20 to 2025-02-02, Membership No- AM20220219800

• IAENG- Society of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Membership No- 304563, issued on 17/02/20022.

Research

• He has presented Research papers in various National and International conferences & more than 10 Papers Published in various National, international & On -Line Journals.         

Certifications

• One-month certified NPTEL course on Fundamentals of Outcome-based Curriculum in Engineering Education of SWAYAM during 23 January to 22 February 2019.

• One-month certified NPTEL course on Effective Engineering Teaching in Practice  of SWAYAM during 2019

• One Week Faculty Development Program on ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING : THE RESEARCH SCOPES & FUTURE TRENDS Organized by Santhiram Engineering College, Nandyal (22.05.2020 to 28.05.2020).

• ‘Indo-Muscat one-week Virtual workshop on Research Writing Skills’ from Date 26th May to 30th May, 2020, Organized by University Center of Research and    Development (UCRD) Galgotias University, India. 

•      Professional Development Programme on INDUSTRY 4.0: SMART FACTORIES WITH LEAN MANUFACTURING held from 25th to 27th June 2020.

•     RBCDSAI’s International Summit on Data Science and AI conducted from 18 th –20th June 2020 organised by the Robert Bosch Centre for Data science and artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Area of Interest

• Machine Design

• Computational Mechanics

• Computer Aided Design 

• Mechatronics

• Robotics

International/National Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums-

• Pramod Kumar, Kartik Kashyap, and M. M. Joglekar, “ Design of Command shaping schemes for mitigatng residual vibration in DEAs,” Submitted to an international journal.

• Pramod Kumar, Yash Agrawal, and M.M. Joglekar, ”Experimental Study and Parameter Extraction of Dielctric Elastomer Actuators,” ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, July 5-7, 2017, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

• Pramod Kumar, Kartik Kashyap, Atul Kumar Sharma and M.M. Joglekar, ” Command Shaping Scheme for Establishing Control over Dynamic Oscillations of Aniso –Visco –Hyperelastic Dielectric Elastomer Actuators,” International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering 2022, August 25-27,2022, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

Research Publication (sci/scopus)

• Pramod Kumar ,Atul Kumar Sharma, A. Singh, D. M. Joglekar and M. M. Joglekar, “Electromechanical instability of dielectric elastomer actuators with active and inactive electric regions,” ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 86, no. 6, p. 061008, 2019. (I. F. - 2.772)

• Pramod Kumar,  Nitesh Arora, and M. M. Joglekar. ”A modulated voltage waveform for enhancing the travel range of dielectric elastomer actuators. ”ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics 85.11 (2018): 111009.(I. F. - 2.168)