Thirumalaimuthukumaran, Assistant Professor – II is involved in the research work on minimization of Thermal error in CNC machine tools by the use of alternative materials. He has the vision to become an excellent academician and researcher in the field of thermal equipment design with great social impact.

He has actively involved in the Design and FEA analysis of Royal Enfield bike and External Aerodynamics analysis in TATA Heavy Vehicles. He has designed and fabricated a 20 liters Capacity of Small Refrigerator at a cost of Rs.1500.

He has designed and constructed a 1.5 Ton Capacity of Cold Room with a cost of 4 lakhs in Jayalakshmi Institute of Technology Boys Hostel. He has involved in research of “Design and Development of a 10 and 5 kW Downdraft Gasifier for Cooking and Electrical Application”, and ‘CFD Assisted Design and analysis of Solar Panel for thermal Applications” for past 10 years. His areas of specialization are CFD, FEA, Thermal equipment Design, Solar Energy, Biomass Gasifier Design and Development. He has published 20 Scopus Indexed research articles related to Thermal Equipment Design in well reputed International Journals with good impact factor and also presented papers in 15 International Conferences and 5 National Conferences. He has worked on and managed number of FEA, CFD related design analysis projects for the automotive and pump industry. The research and engineering experience in various companies such as PRICOL, TVS, HEXDOF. He has worked 5 years in the industry and 12 years in teaching which includes his experience as Teaching Research Associate (TRA) in College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University. Sivakumar has completed his UG and PG programme in the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore. His noteworthy experience of 19 years embraces 14 years in KCT, were he has played the roles of class advisor for UG(Mechanical Engineering) and PG(Industrial Engineering) streams, Autonomous Exam coordinator for UG(Mechanical Engineering), Project Coordinator for PG(Industrial Engineering), Laboratory in charge (Lathe shop), BOS coordinator for UG(Mechanical Engineering) & PG(Industrial Engineering), Member of Question Paper passing board and as Department Coordinator for Alumni Relations in serving his alma matter.ĭr. In parity, Anna University – Chennai had also recognized Dr.M.Balaji as a research supervisor in the stream of Mechanical engineering and presently 5 scholars are pursuing their doctoral programs in varied areas of Industrial Engineering under his supervision. These publications stand tall as evidence to his research potential with google scholar citations of 147, h index of 8 and i10 index of 6 and in continuance, he has also reviewed more than 30 papers in International Journals. He has 28 papers in International journals, 6 papers in National journals, 25 papers in International conferences and 22 papers in National conferences to his credit, under the flagship of KCT. His Phd exertion focused on the upliftment of Supply chain Agility Index of a cluster of pump manufacturers in the region which was highly commended by Indian and foreign examiners. He is also a life member of prestigious societies like Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), Mumbai, India and Institute for Supply Management (ISM), Arizona, US. An additional qualification of an MBA from School of Distance Education, Bharathiar University later added a finer label to his profession and his Doctoral program (2010-2015) entitled ‘Studies on evaluating and enhancing Supply Chain Agility of SME’s using Total Agile Design Systems’ was from Anna University, Chennai. He did his Undergraduation in Mechanical Engineering (1995-1999) and Postgraduation in Industrial Engineering (2001-2002) both from Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore. Balaji hails from Nilgiris were he completed his schooling from St Joseph’s College, Coonoor.

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