V.RADHAKRISHNAN
Director-Research,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore-641 105
Email: radhakrishnan@amrita.edu
Ph: 0422 2652223 (O); 0422 2652163 (R)


EDUCATION

B.Sc (Eng), Mechanical, COE Trivandrum, University of Kerala, 1961
M.Tech, Production Eng., IIT Kharagpur, 1963
Ph.D., Mechanical Eng., IIT Madras, 1970

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Teacher Trainee, Govt. of India, 1961-64
Lecturer, Mechanical Eng., IIT, Madras 1964-70
Asst. Prof., Mechanical Eng., IIT Madras 1970-77
Professor, Mechanical Eng., IIT Madras, 1977 -2002
Industrial Experience : Six months

PUBLICATIONS

International Journals:	90
National Journals:	12
In National & Int. Conf. Proc.	125
General Papers	3
Total	230
Books – Editor	4
Reports	12

CITATIONS: In over 300 Int. Journal Articles and in 13 different books

PATENTS: Seven

RESEARCH GUIDANCE; Ph.D.: 22, M.S (by research): 16 M.Tech.:100

FELLOWSHIP/MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL BODIES

Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, Institution of Elec. Engineers (IEE London)
Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engrs. (SME-USA)
Fellow, Institution of Engineers (IE India)
Fellow Member, Indian Institution of Production Engineers
Life Member, Instrument Society of India
Member, National Institution of Quality and Reliability
Member, Fluid Power Society of India

AWARDS FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS

Chandraprakash Memorial Prize, Institution of Engineers (India) 1965
(Together with Dr.S.K.Basu)
Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Prize, Institution of Engineers (India) 1981
(Together with Dr.O.V.Krishnaiah Chetty)
Certificate of Merit, Institution of Engineers (India) 1981
(Together with Dr.O.V.Krishnaiah Chetty)
Best Paper on Machine Tool Analysis - 12th All India Machine Tool Design & Research Conference, New Delhi 1986
(Together with Dr.Subramania Udupa & M.S.Shunmugam)
Institution Medal - For Best paper by the Institution of Engineers (India), 1998
(Together with Dr.Saji Varghese and N.Achuthan)

ACADEMIC RECOGNITION

German Academic Exchange Fellow, West Germany, 1967-69

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, West Germany, 1975-76

Very High Ranking (Three times top) in Teacher evaluation at IIT Madras

Rapporteur of International Conferences on Surface Metrology


Referee for ASME, SME, IMechE, Wear, Tribology, - Journal papers
Key-note speaker at the 12th, 13th ,18th and 21st All India Manufacturing Technology Design & Research Conference, [IIT New Delhi 1986 / Jadavpur 1988 / IIT Kharagpur 1998,VIT Vellore 2004.]

Chairman Machining Processes, Production Eng. Division, Instn.of Engrs, India

Member Editorial Board, International Journal on 'Surface Topography' (Kogan Page)

Expert Member, Bureau of Indian Standards

Invited lectures at 17 different universities in the USA

Invited lectures at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, City Polytechnic, Hong Kong

Invited lecture at Singapore (SME & Inst. of Engineers, Singapore and SIMTech )1989/1997

Special lectures at UTM, KL, Malaysia 1993

Session Chairman at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Winter Annual Meeting, Florida 1985

Session Chairman at the North American Manufacturing Res. Conf., Pennsylvania 1987

Plenary Session Chairman at the Int. Conf. On Metrology for Quality Control in Production, Beijing, 1989

Session Chairman at the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, New Orleans 1993

One of the papers has been included in the Machining Source Book - A Collection of outstanding articles from the technical literature - published by ASM International 1988

Member Editorial Board, Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management

Member Editorial Board, Journal of Quality and Reliability

Member Editorial Board, Intl. Plastics Eng. and Technology

Member Editorial Board, Journal of Institute of Engineers (India)

Member on the International Program committee of IMEKO World Congress

AWARDS

National Awards

TOP NRDC Award-1987
National Research and Development Corporation Award for innovative invention 1987
Rs.25,000/- NRDC Top award for the invention of a spiral grooved grinding wheel for reducing corner wear in cylindrical plunge grinding, August 1987 (Together with B.Achutha, PhD Research Scholar)

TOP NRDC Award-1998
National Research and Development Corporation Award for innovative invention 1998
Rs.75,000/- NRDC Top award for the invention of Fluidized Abrasive Polishing Machine (Together with R.Jaganathan, PhD Research Scholar).

AIMTDR Achievement Award- 2004
Given by the All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference, a forum of 37 years standing in the field of Manufacturing Engineering, for his significant and well-acknowledged contributions to research, teaching and development.

International Awards

IENA Medal-1987
Spiral grooved grinding wheel invented by Prof.V.Radhakrishnan bagged a Silver medal at the International Exhibition of Ideen, Erfindugen und Neuheiten Austellung, Nueremberg, Germany (IENA) 1987.

Humboldt Research Award-1996
By the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany in recognition of his internationally acclaimed research and excellence in the field of specialization 1996 (DM 115,000).

IEE Achievement Medal-2005
By the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London), for his outstanding contribution to Manufacturing Process and Engineering.

HONOURS

Member committee of judges for PMT Trust Award at IMTEX (Int. Machine Tool Exhibition, Bombay 1986)

Secretary, All India Mfg. Tech. Design & Res. Conference, IIT Madras 1984

Organizing Secretary, All India Mfg. Tech. Design & Res. Conference, IIT Madras 1970

Invited speaker at the Intl. Seminar on Material Handling and Automation organized by the Confederation of Engineering Industries, India 1988

Delivered the Golden Jubilee Commemoration lecture of the Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc Bangalore.

Invited lecture at the Technology Summit, CII, New Delhi 1999

Invited Lecture at the Asian Academy Seminar in Manufacturing at Hyderabad , Dec.2000
Chairman, 19th All India Manufacturing Technology Design and Research Conference, Chennai, Dec.2000.

Chairman, Organizing Committee, First National Conference on Precision Engineering, IIT Madras, Jan. 2000.

Invited Speaker at the Technology Evening - organized by the Association of Manufacturing Technology, BEML Bangalore, 2001.

Invited to give a series of lectures at all BHEL units on Advanced Manufacturing Technology and CAD/CAM. (1990-1992)

VISITING ASSIGNMENTS

Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore- July 2002-July 2003

Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore, Sept.97-Feb.98

Visiting Professor, Lehrsthul Qualitätesmanagement und Fertigungsmebtechnik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Sept.1996-Aug.1997

Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknology Malaysia, Johor Baru, Aug-Sept. 1993

POSITIONS HELD

At IIT Madras

Member, Board of Governors, IIT Madras (2000&2001)

Dean, Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (1985-90)

Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras (1990-93)

Head, Production Engineering Section (1980-83)


Advisor (Cultural) Students (1980-82)

Advisor, Training & Placement (1982-84)

Advisor, Alumni Association (Three years)

Secretary, Alumni Association (Three years)

President, Alumni Association (Three years)

Secretary, Joint Entrance Examinations (Two years)

President, Staff Club (One year)

Coordinator, MHRD Projects on CAD-CAM and CIM Programs, IIT Madras

Coordinator, GTZ - (Indo-German) Project on Production Engineering , IIT Madras

Coordinator, Department of Science &Technology Project on System adaptive control for CNC machines.

Coordinator, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, Project on Centreless Grinding

Coordinator, DST project on Rapid Prototyping project

Coordinator, MHRD project on Computer Aided Flexible Automated Assembly Systems

Coordinator, MHRD Project on Computer Aided Inspection Aimed at Industrial Applications and Training Project

Coordinator, CSIR Project in Application of Vision System for Surface and Dimensional Inspection

Coordinator, Volkswagen Foundation Project on Quality loop, IIT Madras

Coordinator MHRD Project on Integrated Design and Manufacture

Outside IIT Madras

Member Board of Governors, National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Bombay 1986-88

Board member, Loyal Machine Works, Coimbatore 1985-86

Member Governing Council, Madras Productivity Council -1985-86

Member, Advisory Committee Mechanical Engineering Research and Development Organization (CSIR) Madras 1987

Member, Academic Council, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Development of Edn. Science & Technology, Trivandrum 1990

Member, Tamil Nadu State Council for Science & Technology 1989

Member, Board of Directors, Advanced Training Institute, Madras 1983-87

Member, Technical Committee Central Machine Tool Institute, Bangalore 1987-90

Member Engineering Sciences Research Committee, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi 1990-93

Member Technology Review and Advisory Committee, Risk Capital and Technology Finance Corporation, New Delhi 1987-89

Co-Chairman, panel on Engineering Industries - Task Force on Future Technology for 2020 - TIFAC, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi 1994-95

Chairman SERC Schools on Advanced Manufacturing, DST Govt.of India

Member, Technology Watch Committee, MHRD Govt.of India

Member, PG Courses Approval Committee AICTE, New Delhi

Member Board of studies, Annamalai University, PSG College of Technology, Anna University.

Chairman, Program Advisory Committee, Robotics& Manufacturing Dept. of Sc. & Tech., Govt. of India.

Member, Research Council - Central Mechanical Eng. Research Institute, Durgapur (2 Terms)

Member, Board of Governors Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal

Member, Naval Research Board

Member National Accreditation Board for Laboratories- Mechanical Measurements

Member Advisory Committee COPEN - Conferences on Precision Engineering

Member, Advisory Council, All India Mfg. Tech. Design and Res. Conferences

International Council Representative, Institution of Electrical Engineers (London)
Member, Academic Council PSG College of Technology

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

Courses Taught

Manufacturing Processes / Technology
Machine Tools and Metrology
Manufacturing Metrology & Computer Aided Inspection
Tooling for Production
Automation in Production
Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Research Interests

Metrology and Computer Aided Inspection
Manufacturing Processes - Abrasive Machining
Unconventional Machining - ECM, EDM, USM, Laser etc
Sensor development for manufacturing processes

CONSULTANCY

Retainer Consultant for 3 companies
Consultancy completed over Rs.4.50 Million

SPONSORED RESEARCH

Completed Rs.70 Million worth National & International Projects

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Commercialized one patent - Spiral grooved Grinding Wheel

Developed modern laboratories in Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Computer Aided Assembly, Robotics, Metrology and Computer Aided Inspection at IIT Madras

Got a new building for the above labs through support from industries [27 lakhs in 1990]

Introduced the Industrial Associateship Scheme of IIT Madras as Dean

Introduced Research Based Industrial Consultancy at IIT Madras in 1989 as Dean

Initiated the User Oriented M.Tech. Program for HAL and HMT Engineers, 1984

Started the evening certificate program for practicing engineers under the Continuing Education Program.

Introduced All India Admission Counseling for JEE for the first time in 1978 as the Secretary, JEE

Started Newstech, a bi-monthly publication on Science and Technology abstracts, from IC &SR

Recommended to the Board of IIT, the introduction of Personal Contingency Fund for the promotion of Consultancy and Sponsored Research, as the Chairman of the Corpus Fund Committee.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Language	Speak	Read	Write
English	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
German	Very Good	Very Good	Fair
Malayalam	Very Good	Excellent	Very Good
Tamil	Good	Fair	Fair
Hindi	Good	Good	Good

DETAILS OF PATENTS TAKEN

Total Patents : Seven : Five in Grinding and Two in In-Process Monitoring

A device for sensing the surface condition of a grinding wheel (Patent No.150050)

A method for monitoring the wheel corner wear in plunge grinding (Patent No.165110)

Spiral grooving of the grinding wheel face to reduce corner wear in plunge grinding (Patent No.162980)

A device for in-process monitoring of surface finish of a workpiece during manufacturing (Patent registered No.156/MAS/94 on 7.3.94 (Pat NO.182070))

Fluidized abrasive polishing machine (Patent registered in Sept. 1996)

A cutting tool insert with a built-in provision for detecting flank wear of a predetermined value (patent applied for 1999)

A variable stiffness Control wheel for Centreless Grinding - patent applied Feb.2000.