Faculty & Staff

Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, 1980

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1974

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, University College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 1971

Honors & Awards

• “Acoustical Paper Award by Nelson Industries, Wisconsin, 1984.”
• “ Advisor and coauthor of a student paper award by International Institute of Noise Control Engineering, USA, 1989.”
• “ Some of the research results in the area of Duct Acoustics has been included in books by other authors (‘Duct Acoustics’ by Munjal published by Wiley, 1987 and ‘Noise Control’ by C.E. Wilson published by Harper and Row, 1988)”.

Consulting

• Consulted for several Industrial and Environmental Noise Control Projects.
• Consultant for United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1989
• Consultant for Daewoo Corporation, Seoul, Korea 1994
• Consultant for Newark Airport Authority Commission 1994
• Consultant for Pioneer Industries, Carlstadt, New Jersey 1996
  

Board Certified Member of Institute of Noise Control Engineering (USA). This membership is granted after successful completion of a fundamental and a professional examination in noise, acoustics and vibration.

Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, Purdue University, 1977 - 80
• Graduate Instructor, Department of Engineering Graphics, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 1978 - 80
• Aeronautical Engineer, Helicopter Design Bureau, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bangalore, India, 1974 - 77
• Research Scholar, Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1972 - 74
• Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 1971 – 72
  

Publications

• “A Chapter on Acoustic Modeling of Ducted-Source Systems” (with M.J. Crocker), in Handbook of Acoustics, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1998.
• “ Invited paper on Integrating Acoustics into Mechanical Engineering Program”, Acoustical Society of America meeting at Ohio State University, 1998

• “ A Chapter on Superposition ” in Encyclopedia of Vibration, Academic Press, 1999
• “ Acoustical characterization of One-Port Sources”, IUTAM Symposium on Designing for Quietness, Bangalore, India. (Kluwer Academic Publishers) 2002

Institutional Service

• Member of Faculty Council
• Member of Academic Planning and Resources Committee
• Member of Non-Academic Disciplinary Appeals Committee

Professional Development Activities & Services

• Acoustical Society of America.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• American Society of Engineering Education
• Faculty Workshops (organized by the School of Engineering):
• Project-Based Learning, Faculty Workshop, March 2002.
• Workshop on ABET EC2000, November 2001.
• Multidisciplinary Design, Faculty Workshop, by David Ollis, October, 2001.
• Effective Teaching: A Workshop, by Richard M. Felder, August 1997.
  

Professional Societies

• Board Certified Member of Institute of Noise Control Engineering, USA.
  Acoustical Society of America.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• American Society of Engineering Education