Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Prabir Sarkar, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Room 328, Main Campus, Satish Dhawan Block, Birla Farms,
Rupnagar- 140001, Punjab, India
E-mail: prabir@iitrpr.ac.in; prabirsarkar@gmail.com
Phone: +91 1881 23 2368 (O), +91-8699398885 (M)
Co-Principal Director, Agriculture and Water Development Hub (AWaDH) supported by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)
Fellow of Institute of Engineers (FIE), Chartered Engineer (C.Eng)
Associate Editor, Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (ASTM)
Websites: http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/smmee/prabir (official); www.prabirsarkar.com (personal)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabir-sarkar-73984618
I. Background
Research and Teaching Experience
Aug 2016 - present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India
April 2011 - July 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India
May 2008 - April 2011 Associate Researcher (Post. Doc., Guest Researcher), System Integration Division of Engineering Laboratory, at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Nov 2007 - April 2008 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Jan 2003 - Oct 2007 National Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Industrial Experience
March 2007 - Oct 2007 Co-founder and managing director of a product design and development consultancy startup firm, ‘ODEA solutions’
Aug 2000 – Dec 2002 Development Engineer (senior design engineer), R&D Center, Bharat Earth Movers Limited, PSU, Kolar Gold Fiends, Karnataka, India
Other Experience
Aug 2020 Domain coordinator of Technology Innovation HUB (TIH)- Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWADH), established by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India at IIT Ropar in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS).
Jan 2016 Chairman and nodal officer of Intellectual Property Rights cell.
Education
Jan 2003 - Nov 2007 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Advisor: Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti. Title: Development of a Support for Effective Concept Exploration to Enhance Creativity of Engineering Designers. Submitted November 2007, defended March 2008. 7.0/8.0 (87%)
July 1998 - Aug 2000 Master of Design (M.Des.), Mechanical Engineering, Product Design and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. 6.6/8 (82%)
July 1994 - Aug 1998 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy. 70%
Fellowships
2018 Fellow of Institute of Engineers, India
2005 National Doctoral Fellow award, NDF of All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE (was given to 50 Ph.D. students all over India), 2005-2007.
2003 MHRD fellowship, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2003-2004.
Awards
2020 MTV Roadies Revolution award received as a team. Stubble Removing Machine (SRM) inventors of IIT Ropar receives a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh from MTV Roadies Revolution
2015 Outstanding researcher award in Mechanical Engineering, VIFFA 2015 awards, Centre for advanced research and design, Venus international foundation, India.
Travel grants
2009 NIST travel grant to attend DETC, ASME conference at San Diego, 2009.
2007 Travel grant from the government of India, for presenting four papers at ICED, 2007 conference in Paris, France.
Best paper awards
2021 Best paper award. 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020).
2009 One among top five best papers in International Conference on Research in Design, ICORD 2009.
1997 Third best paper award at a National Level Technical Symposium, held in N.I.T, Kurukshetra, for presenting a paper on "Implementation of expert system on wire cutting EDM", 1997.
1997 Best paper award in a southern India level technical symposium held in R.V.S. College, Dindugal, 1997.
Honors
2017 Leading educationist of India award and APJA Kalam Award for excellence, FFD.
2016 Biography included in “2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century,” International Biography Centre, St. Thomas Place, Great Britain.
2016 Biography included in “Top 100 Professionals 2016,” International Biography Centre, St. Thomas Place, Great Britain.
2016 Received Bharat Gaurav Award, 2016, IIF Society.
2016 Biography in the 33rd edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2016.
Achievements
2016 Two world record holder. Entered in the Limca Book of Records and India Book of Records in 2016, twice. As an outcome of my course, we designed and manufactured, the longest ballpoint pen and the longest fountain ink pen in the world and made two world records.
1998 All India 6th rank (99.3 percentile), 1998 in Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED).
II. Research
Research Interests
Product Design and Manufacturing: Design creativity [journal>10]; Sustainable design [j>10]; Sustainable machining and manufacturing (including life cycle management) [j>10]; Bio-mimicry in engineering design [j>3], Aesthetics in engineering [j>1]
Google scholar profile: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=k9oa6zIAAAAJ. Citations: >2700, h-index = 23, i10-index = 40
Externally sponsored grants (total about 115 crores INR, 15.5 Million USD equivalent)
2020- 2022 Stubble Burning: Health impacts and social perception - an explorative study for prevention
Funding source Swedish Research Council (SRC)
Level of support 7,46 000 SEK ( ≈ 63,00 000 INR)
Organizations involved IIT Ropar and Mid Sweden University
Role Co-PI (IIT Ropar: Dr. Samaresh Bardha (HSS), Dr. Parwinder Singh (HSS), and Dr. Prabir Sarkar (ME). Foreign PI: Prof. Koustuv Dalal, Professor in Public Health Economics, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.)
2020-2025 Establishing of Agriculture and Water Hub under National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS): Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs)
Funding source Department of Science and Technology (DST), Gov. of India
Level of support 110 crores over 5 years
Organizations involved IIT Ropar
Role Co-PI (Co-PIs: Dr. Pushpendra Singh, Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Dr. Mukesh Saini, Dr. Neelkant, Dr. Vijay Anand, Dr. Suman Kumar, Dr. Neeraj Goel)
Domain coordinator: Stubble management and urban farming
2019- 2022 Micro Green Roofing
Funding source IMPRINT- 2, MHRD, GOI and ELT India
Level of support About 75 lakhs (58 lakhs from MHRD+ 17 lakhs from ELT India)
Organizations involved IIT Ropar, IIT Kharagpur, ELT India, industry
Role Principal Investigator (Co PI- Dr. Putul Haldar, IIT Ropar and Dr. Chirodeep Bakli, IIT Kharagpur)
2017-2020 Big Data Analysis: A key to understand the Dynamics of Collaborative Knowledge Building
Funding source Cognitive Science Research Initiative (CSRI), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
Level of support INR 14,40,600 / USD 22142
Role Co-Principal Investigator (PI, Dr. Sudarsan Iyenger)
2016-2019 Experimentation and simulation assisted enhancement of energy efficiency & pollution reduction in hand tool industries
Funding source Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises under Uchhatar Aviskar Yojana
Level of support INR 99.58 lakhs/ USD 147616
Role Co-Principal Investigator (PI, Dr. Dhiraj Mahajan)
2016-2019 Study of aesthetics in product design using eye-tracking equipment from a cognitive view
Funding source Cognitive Science Research Initiative (CSRI), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
Level of support INR 16.26 lakhs/ USD 24,440
Role Principal Investigator
2014-2019 Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions (FIST) Program
Funding source Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
Level of support INR 235 lakhs/ USD 380,000
Role Co-Principal Investigator (PI, Prof. Harpreet Singh)
2015-2016-2017 Grant for strengthening of IPR cell
Funding source Patent Information Centre, Punjab State Council for Science and Technology
Level of support INR 0.2 lakhs/ USD 330/ each year
Role Principal Investigator/ Nodal officer
2014-2015 Grant for setting up and strengthening of IPR cell
Funding source Patent Information Centre, Punjab State Council for Science and Technology
Level of support INR 0.2 lakhs/ USD 330
Role Principal Investigator/ Nodal officer
2014-2017 Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Network Design
Funding source Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
Institute involved IIT Ropar, IIM Lucknow, and University of Cambridge
Level of support £ 1 million / USD 1,517,300, IIT Ropar’s share: INR 48,00,000/ USD 70,021
Role Co-Investigator (Prof. Jag Sarai, U Cambridge, Prof. Harpreet Singh, IIT Ropar)
Internally sponsored grants (total about 1 crore INR)
2020 Development of vertical garden under multidisciplinary agriculture research initiative
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 100 lakhs (my share 14 lakhs)
Role Co-Principal Investigator
2020 Aesthetically design and development of electric two-wheelers under multidisciplinary electric vehicle research initiative
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 100 lakhs (my share about 20 lakhs)
Role Co-Principal Investigator
2019 Development of machines to stop stubble burning
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 11.5 lakhs
Role Co-Principal Investigator
2013 Establishment of Design studio
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 10 lakhs/ USD 18,699
Role Co-Principal Investigator
2012 Establishment of Design research laboratory
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 5.7 lakhs/ USD 11,181
Role Principal Investigator
2011-2012 Purchase of Eye-tracking equipment (Research Grant)
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 45 lakhs / USD 67400
Role Principal Investigator
2011 Establishment of sustainable design and manufacturing laboratory
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 49 lakhs / USD 120,000
Role Co-Principal Investigator
2011-2012 Creative sustainable product design methodology with standards compliant, and a support for measuring product sustainability in early design (Institute seed grant)
Funding source Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Level of support INR 9.8 lakhs / USD 21,777
Role Principal Investigator
Consultancy projects (17 lakhs INR)
2019- 2022 Micro Green Roofing
Funding source ELT India (under IMPRINT 2 scheme)
Level of support 17 lakhs
Role Principal Investigator
Dec 2015 Bone alignment measuring system
Funding source IIT Ropar and PGI Chandigarh joint initiative
Level of support Financial expenses borne by IIT Ropar
Role Principal Investigator. Product developed in collaboration with Dr. Chawan, of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER)
Dec 2015 Improved surgical cutter for plastic surgery
Funding source IIT Ropar and PGI Chandigarh joint initiative
Level of support Financial expenses borne by IIT Ropar
Role Principal Investigator. Product developed in collaboration with Dr. Sunil Gaba of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh along with Dr. S. S. Padhee and Mr. Sameer Mishra, a summer internship student, 2015
Invited talks and presentations
2021 Prime panelists, round table discussion about Intellectual Property Rights and Patents on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2021. National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), an enterprise of DSIR, Ministry of Science & Technology, Gov. of India.
2021 Invited talk AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored 5 day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advancement and Futuristic Trends in 3D Printing and Design. February 1-5, 2021. Introduction to 3D printing and Standards, Norms and Regulations for 3-D Printing.
2020 Invited talk. Sustainable Product Design: Towards a better future. Five-day Short-Term Training Program (STTP) funded by TEQIP III on "Sustainable Manufacturing for Atma-Nirbhar Bharat" from Dec 21 - 25, 2020. Department of Management Studies. MNIT Jaipur
2020 Invited talk. Standards in Design and Manufacturing. 8thInternational Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, December 19-20, 2020.
2020 Delivered a talk on Post-harvest Stubble Removing Machine (SRM). Agriculture Technologies presentations facilitated by the office of Principal Scientific Adviser, GOI in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation.
Agriculture Technology Presentations - Phase 6 Friends of the Farmers.18 Jul 2020
2020 Delivered a lecture on Intellectual Property Rights as the Chairman of IPR cell, IIT Ropar. Faculty development program on "Research trends in science and engineering" in Institute of Engineering & Management Salt Lake, Kolkata on 29th July 2020.
2020 Guest online lecture on “Approaching education related issues using creative problem solving techniques” for faculty members of G H Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pune on 6th June 2020.
2020 Guest Lecture, on "Reverse engineering" for ME student of GLA University on 23/04/2020.
2019 Invited talk. Sustainable Design and Manufacturing. 7th International Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, December 5-7, 2019.
2019 Expert talk delivered on “Product development and bio mimicry in design" in Chandigarh University on 19.7.19.
2019 Expert talk on Sustainability standards and standards for Industry 4.0 on 15th July 2019. One-Week Workshop on Manufacturing for Industry 4.0 under Advanced Knowledge in Nutshell (AKIN), July 15th-19th, 2019, IIT Ropar.
2019 Expert talk on "Sustainability standards" in One-Day Workshop on ‘Sustainable Manufacturing’, March 19, 2019; Main Campus, IIT Ropar. Sponsored by: Materials & Manufacturing Panel, Aeronautics Research & Development Board.
2018 Guest of Honor. Addresses on academic collaborations. CSIR-CMERI, 28th Sep 2018.
2018 Expert lecture on aesthetics, Chandigarh University, Oct 8th, 2018.
2018 Invited talk on ‘Creative Problem Solving Techniques for Engineering Projects.’ MNIT Jaipur, 13th Aug 2018.
2018 Key note speaker, Biomimicry, Design Inspired by nature, in International conference on Futuristic Development in Mechanical Engineering. Kautilya Institute of Technology and Engineering and School of Management (KITE-SOM), Sitapura, Jaipur, India, Feb, 21, 2018.
2016 Invited speaker in Global Initiatives on Academic Networks (GIAN) program on Introduction to Sustainable Manufacturing, at MNIT Jaipur, 19-23 December 2016. Talk title: Sustainability standards.
2016 Invited speaker in One Day Meet of Medical Device Innovation Cluster at CSIO, Chandigarh, organized by DST Centre for Policy Research, Panjab University, Chandigarh on November 12 2016. Talk title: Innovation and manufacturing of Medical devices at Design research lab of IIT Ropar.
2016 Invited speaker for the Faculty Development Program on “A look into the future” being organized by Dr.SSB University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University under TEQIP-II (A World Bank Project). October 25, 2016. Talk title: Sustainable Product Design.
2016 Invited speaker for Indo-US dissemination workshop on design of sustainable systems, 20-22 June 2016, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Talk title: Understanding sustainability in pharmaceuticals companies through a case study.
2015 Guest of honor and expert inaugural lecture on “Sustainability and Eco design”, in short term training program on “advances on quality management practices in industries, 10th July, 2015 at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, HP, organized by Mechanical Department, NIT, Hamirpur.
2015 Expert talk on sustainability and eco design in ISTE-PTU Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on, “Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ETME-15),” Rayat Institute of Engineering & Information Technology, June 8, 2015.
2014 Panel member, the need of product design course in undergraduate study in an international symposium on product design, Chandigarh University, 16 July 2014.
2014 Key note speaker, creative problem solving techniques in product design at an international workshop on creative product design, Chandigarh University, 15 July 2014.
2014 Panel member and invited talk, industry academia collaboration at Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Chandigarh, 5th March 2014.
2012 Invited lecture on sustainability and eco-design at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, 2012
2012 Invited lecture on automobile design, Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME), IIT Ropar chapter, 2012
2011 Invited lecture on ‘Approaching education related issues using creative problem solving techniques,’ faculty development program, Rayat Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Ropar Campus, on July 19th, 2011
2009 Invited talk on design of new products, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, 2009.
Research guidance
PhD guidance completed (degree awarded and defended)
1. Gyanendra Singh Goindi (co-guide). Title: Investigation of Ionic liquids as metalworking fluids in minimum quantity lubrication machining. January 2012-October, 2015. Defended: 8/11/16. Degree awarded on 21/11/16. Current position: Professor and Dean, Department of Mechanical Sciences, Chandigarh University, Mohali.
2. Sagar Dhage (co-guide). Title: Investigation of surface textured cutting tools for machining of medium carbon steel, January 2012-March 2017. Submitted: Nov 2017. Defended: Nov 2018. Degree awarded: 3/12/18. Current position: Assistant Professor, JSPM Narhe Technical Campus, Pune.
3. Umesh Chaturvedi (co-guide). Title: Sustainability in Indian pharmaceuticals companies. Joined under External Registration Program in MNIT, Jaipur. January 2014- July 2019. Submitted on 15th July 2019. Defended on 7.2.2020. Current position: Assistant Professor, in an engineering college near Mathura
4. Bijendra Kumar (guide). Title: Assessing and improving sustainability of products during conceptual design. August 2013-2018. Synopsis completed on 22.02.19. Submitted on 26th June 2019. Defended on 14.5.20. Current position: Working for National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited.
5. Rachit Kumar Sharma (co guide). Title: Assessing and improving sustainability in supply networks of manufacturing organizations. Through DST (India) -EPSRC (UK) funded Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Network Design project. January 2016-2021. Synopsis completed on 12.10.2020. Submitted on 8.12.2020. Defended on 29.6.2021. Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT Ropar.
PhD guidance completed (submitted)
6. Prashant Kumar Singh (guide). Title: Understanding and Developing Eco design Support for Environmentally Conscious Product Development. August, 2016-2021. Synopsis completed on 8.9.2021. Submitted: 9.12.2021.
PhD guidance (pursuing)
1. Sunil Sharma (guide). Title: Understanding and supporting bio inspired design in packing. Joined under the External Registration Program. August 2016-present. Open seminar completed.
2. Jitender (guide). Through DST, CSRI funded project. January 2017.
3. Anil Baliram Ghubade (guide). Joined as a part-time student. Aug 2018.
4. Harmanpreet Singh (guide). August 2019- present.
5. Vikalp Sharma (guide). Jan 2020-present.
6. Alok Bihari Singh- External Joint Supervisor, MNIT, Jaipur.
7. Kamalpreet Sindhu (guide)- Part time. August 2021-present.
Post doctoral (completed)
1. Rachit Kumar Sharma (co guide). Supply chain management.
Masters guidance (completed)
1. Suraj Goala (guide). Design-Assist Tool - Deciding the Efficacy of Additive Manufacturing Processes and Assisting Product Designers using DfAM. Completed, 2021.
2. Suraj Gururani (guide). Analysis of design fixation and its mitigation with the help of bioinspired design. Completed, 2021
3. Abhishek Chauhan (guide). Design Aesthetic of an Electric two-wheeler. Completed, 2021.
4. Sai Teja Pothuri (guide). Development of an automation module for Microgreen Roofing, 2019.
5. Sarang E Tayade (guide). Understanding the relationship between stock and performance of companies, May 2018.
6. Rohit Bamne (guide). Study of driving behaviour on the basis of distractions, July 2018.
7. Jitender (co-guide). Development of a method for benchmarking sustainable products (external: NIT Srinagar, J&K), completed, 2016.
Research Fellow-JRF (completed)
· Geo Raju (co-guide). Funded by DST (India) -EPSRC (UK) funded, Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Network Design project (April 2015- January, 2016).
· Rachit Kumar Sharma (co-guide). Funded by DST (India) -EPSRC (UK) funded, Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Network Design project (September 2015-January, 2016).
· Jitender (guide). Through DST, CSRI funded project, Study of aesthetics in product design using eye-tracking equipment from a cognitive view (August 2016-December 2016).
· Yuvraj K. (co-guide). Project, micro green roofing. Funded by DST- IMPRINT 2.
· Rishish Mishra. (co-guide). Project, micro green roofing. Funded by DST- IMPRINT 2.
Research Fellow-JRF (pursuing)
· Shivam Panday. (co-guide). Project, micro green roofing. Funded by DST- IMPRINT 2.
Undergraduate guidance (B.Tech. main project, completed)
· Development of a Multiphonics system. Sonu, 2020
· Expert review web site, Asish Dhingan, P Mukesh, Ravi Mohan Meena, and Alok Mishra, 2015
· Real estate website development, Navneet Singh, Naveen Kumar, Honey Singla, and Naman Chhabra, 2015
· Prediction of the effect of design changes on company’s performance, Siddharth L., 2015
· Seed oil extractor, Javed Khan and Nishant Kumar (co-guide, Dr. Harpreet Singh), 2014
· Handy machine to extract oil from mustard seeds, Ajay Kumar Verma and Pareep Singhroha (co-guide), 2013
· Development of particle board using Rice/Wheat Straw, Ankush Kumar and Lal Singh (co-guide), 2013.
· Development of software tool for sustainability evaluation in product design, Parteek Singla, Prashant Yadav, Praveen Kumar Sah, and Raj Narayan Saha (co-guide), 2012.
· Regenerative braking system for human powered vehicles, Raj Narayan Saha and Prashant Yadav (co-guide), 2012.
Summer internships guidance
· Many summer internship projects - completed.
Research Publications
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)
Patents Granted
1. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prabir Sarkar, 2014. Method for Idea Generation for Creation of Product Designs, Indian patent application no.: 859/CHE/2006, patent grant no.: 258579, date of filing: 16th May 2006 (Link: http://www.ipcell.iisc.ernet.in) [Link].
2. Archana Badodekar, Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prasad G Kamble, 2005. A manually operated aid for impaired people to ingress and egress train and method thereof, Indian patent grant no.: 227939, date of filing: 20th April 2005. [Link]
3. B.Gurumoorthy, Neeraj Pal, and Prabir Sarkar, 2000. Rupturable disposable syringe, Indian patent grant number: 198228, date of filing: 25th February 2000.
4. Gyanendra Singh Goindi, Dr. Anshu Dhar Jayal, Dr. Prabir Sarkar, 2015. A Flexible Continuous Minimum Quantity Lubrication (FCMQL) system, Indian patent application number: 3971/DEL/2015, filing date: 07-Dec-2015. Patent grant no: 376967, dated 15/09/2021.
Design patent granted (Design registration)
5. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Dr. Devendra Kumar Chauhan (Department of Orthopedics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER, Chandigarh), students: Anshu Kaushal, Jaspal Singh, Kaustav Das, Milind Aggarwal. Bone alignment measuring device for knee surgery. Design Application No. 292918. Design accepted and published, Journal no: 42/2019, dated 18.10.2019
Patents Pending (filed, some of them are published) [link]
6. Ashish Sahu and Prabir Sarkar. A measuring device for measuring the surface contour of an object. Application No:02111051100, Filing Date:08-11-2021. Non Provisional Application, Delhi.
7. Ashish Sahu and Prabir Sarkar. Safety mechanism for a device and a method thereof. 202111041794. Filing date: 15/09/2021.( Non provisional)
8. Dr. Prabir Sarkar. Automatic mold forming device. Application no: 202111027616. Dated 21.6.21 (provisional).
9. Mr. Amit Rajnikant Patel, Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Dr. Himanshu Tyagi and Prof. Harpreet Singh. System and method for tracking details of energy associated with an energy generation process. Application no.: 202011011721 dated 18/03/2020. (Non provisional)
10. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Prof. Harpreet Singh, Mr. Harmanpreet Singh, Mr. Fateh Singh, Mohd. Sahil and Mr. Kharak Singh. Stubble removing and conveying machine. Non-Provisional Patent Application filed before IPO-Delhi, 2019. Application no. 201911041636, dated, 15-Aug-2019.
11. US Patent Application No. 16/540,736. Inventors: Malkeet SINGH, Harpreet SINGH, Christopher Charles BERNDT, Prabir SARKAR. Date of Filing: 14/08/2019. Title: Technology and process for 3d printing using swarf particles
12. Filing of Complete Application (Patent of Addition) in India: (LRN No: P3001-IN). Application No: 201923001267. Date of Filing: 10/01/2019. Title: A technology and process for 3D printing using SWARF particles. Applicants: Indian Institute of Technology Ropar and Swinburne University of Technology. Inventors: Malkeet Singh, Harpreet Singh, Christopher Charles Berndt and Prabir Sarkar.
13. Amit R Patel, Prabir Sarkar, Himanshu Tyagi, Harpreet Singh, Sudhakar Sagi, 2018. A Method for Determining a Single Discounting Rate for the Processes Involving Emissions. Application no: 201811044462. Date of filing: 26-Nov-18
14. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Akash Mathwani, Arpit Sharma, Jitenda Kumar, Harshjeet Singh Aulakh, 2017. System and method for controlling electronic locks, Indian patent application number: 201711003769, filing date: February 01, 2017.
15. Dr. Navin Kumar, Dr. Prabir Sarkar, 2016. A method of fabricating particleboard from cellulosic plant material, Indian patent application number: 201611029993, filing date: 01-Sep-2016.
16. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Nishant Bagaria, Ekjot Singh, Nabajit Hazowary, Gaurav Kumar, 2016. A rectangular slot-cutting machine for slots of variable sizes, Indian patent application number: 201611015347, filing date: 03-May-2016.
17. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, 2016. A programmable electro mechanical combination locking system, Indian patent application number: 201611004726, filing date: 10-Feb-2016.
18. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Dinesh Chauhan, Duddela Sai Harish, Gaurav Gupta, Dhruv Kumar Bansal, 2016. Semi-automatic food processing device for preparing sweets and savories, Indian patent application number: 201611000957, filing date: 11-Jan-2016.
19. Dr. Prabir Sarkar, Bishal Ghosh, Mahak Sarin, Alluvala Mamata, Dev Prabhaker Singh Tomar, 2015. Stapler device with multi-tier force multiplication mechanism for binding hard materials, Indian patent application number: 3961/DEL/2015, filing date: 04-Dec- 2015.
20. Dr. Prabir Sarkar (Principal Investigator), Banoth Praveen Kumar, Honey Singla, Imroj Qamar, Jaskaran Singh Virdi, Kumar Harshad, 2013. Weighing system, Indian patent application number: 3354/DEL/2013, filing date: 15-November- 2013.
Books publications
B1. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, and Srinivas Kota (Eds.), 2010. Designing Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems, Research Publishing Services, Singapore. ISBN: 978-981-08-5466-9.
B2. Special issue book: Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Dimitris Kiritsis, Masaru Nakano (Eds.), 2009. Developing sustainable products, processes and services. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, Vol 4, No 1-3. Inderscience, ISSN no. for the journal is 1743-5110.
Top downloads and references
2014 Top ten most cited articles for this journal in 2012, 2013, again 2014: Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prabir Sarkar, B. Leelavathamma and B.S. Nataraju: A Functional Representation for Aiding Biomimetic and Artificial Inspiration of New Ideas, AI EDAM, Volume 19, Issue 02, May 2005, pp 113-132.
2014 Top ten most cited papers (in the last two years) in AI EDAM journal: Chakrabarti, A., Sarkar, P., Leelavathamma, B. and Nataraju, B.S., A functional representation for aiding biomimetic and artificial inspiration of new ideas, AI EDAM, Volume 19 / Issue 02, pp 113 - 132, May 2005.
2014 One of the top 25 most cited papers in this journal since 2009: Sarkar, P., and Chakrabarti, A.: Assessing design creativity, Design Studies, Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 348-383, July 2011, has been
2012 Most downloaded articles from SciVerse ScienceDirect for the duration 2011-2012: Sarkar, P, and Chakrabarti, A. Assessing Design Creativity: Measures of Novelty, Usefulness and Design Creativity, Design Studies Journal, Elsevier, DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2011.01.002 (2011).
2009 Awarded ‘Certificate of Merit’ for being selected one of the top five papers at the conference: Sarkar and Chakrabarti, Analyzing Creativity Methods, published in International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD09), Bangalore India, 2009, has been
2009 One of the top ten most downloaded articles in January 2009: Prabir Sarkar, S. Phaneendra, and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Developing Engineering Products Using Inspiration From Nature, J. of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 8, 031001 (2008).
International Journal publications [* Students: PhD, M. Tech., JRF, and B.Tech.] (I.F.= Impact Factor)
(Science Citation Index)
J1. Rachit Kumar Sharma, Geo Raju, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, Ekta Singla, 2022. Comparing the environmental impacts of paracetamol dosage forms using life cycle assessment. Environment, Development and Sustainability. Accepted. Springer.
J2. Prashant Kumar Singh and Prabir Sarkar, 2021. A Multi-Criteria Decision Approach to Select Contract Manufacturer for Sustainable Development of Automotive Products: an Integrated Framework. Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41660-021-00181-8. (I.F. = 1.2).
J3. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Prashant Kumar Singh*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, 2021. Sustainability in Supply Networks: Finding the Most Influential Green Interventions Using Interpretive Structural Modeling Technique. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. Tayor and Francis (accepted) (I.F. = 2.3).
J4. Prashant Kumar Singh* and Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Understanding the priorities of designers for an ecodesign support during environmentally sustainable product development. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, Emerald Publishing Limited, DOI 10.1108/WJSTSD-12-2020-0101.
J5. Prashant Kumar Singh*, Akant Kumar Singh, Siddhartha and Prabir Sarkar, 2020. Optimizing the performance parameters of injection-molded polymer spur gears. Proc IMechE Part L: J Materials: Design and Applications. Institute of Mechanical Engineers. DOI: 10.1177/1464420720977561. (I.F.= 0.7).
J6. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Prashant Kumar Singh*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, 2020. A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision Approach to Analyse Key Factors Affecting Sustainability in Supply Chain Networks of Manufacturing Organisations. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. Springer. (accepted) (I.F.= 2.4).
J7. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, 2020. Assessing the sustainability of a manufacturing process using life cycle assessment technique-a case of an Indian pharmaceutical company. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. Springer. 22, 1269–1284 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-020-01865-4 (I.F.= 2.4)
J8. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Gurvinder Pal Singh Sodhi*, Vikrant Bhakar*, Ravinder Kaur, Sheshanth Pallakonda*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, 2020. Sustainability in manufacturing processes: Finding the environmental impacts of friction stir processing of pure magnesium. CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology. Elsevier, Accepted, May 2020, online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2020.03.007) (I.F. 2.3).
J9. Prashant Kumar Singh* and Prabir Sarkar, 2020. A framework based on fuzzy Delphi and DEMATEL for sustainable product development: A case of Indian automotive industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier. Available online 24 October 2019, 118991. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118991. (I.F.= 7.1)
J10. Bijendra Kumar* and Prabir Sarkar, 2019. Understanding Collaborative Interaction for Varying Product Complexity. International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)14(3), Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Article: 2, Pages: 30 DOI: 10.4018/IJeC.2018070102 (I.F.= 0.4).
J11. Prashant Kumar Singh* and Prabir Sarkar, 2019. A framework based on fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS for prioritizing solutions to overcome the barriers in implementation of eco-design practices in SMEs. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2019.1605547. Published online: 17 Apr 2019. (I.F= 2.7)
J12. L. Siddharth* and Prabir Sarkar, 2018. A multiple-domain matrix support for capturing rationale in engineering change management. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, JCISE, ASME. Vol: 18, issue-2 (doi: 10.1115/1.4039850). (I.F= 1.4).
J13. Gyanandra S Goindi*, Anshu D Jayal, Prabir Sarkar, 2018. Application of ionic liquids in interrupted minimum quantity lubrication machining of plain medium carbon steel: effects of ionic liquid properties and cutting conditions. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. SME, Elsevier (SCI, I.F.= 2.3). Volume 32, April 2018, Pages 357-371. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2018.03.007)
J14. Umesh Chaturvedi*, Monica Sharma, G.S. Dangayach, Prabir Sarkar, 2018. Evolution and Adoption of Sustainable Practices in the Pharmaceutical Industry: an overview with an Indian Perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier. Volume 168, 1 December 2017, Pages 1358-1369 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.08.184) (I.F.= 9.3).
J15. G. S. Goindi*, P. Sarkar, A. D. Jayal, S. N. Chavan*, D. Mandal, 2018. Investigation of Ionic liquids as additives to Canola oil in minimum quantity lubrication milling of plain medium carbon steel. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Springer, vol 94, issue 1-4, pp 881-896. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-0970-1 ) (I.F.=3.3).
J16. Gyanendra S Goindi* and Prabir Sarkar, 2017. Dry Machining: Achieving Sustainable Machining Through the Elimination of Cutting Fluids- Challenges and Future Directions. Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, vol, 165, pp, 1557-1571 (I.F.= 9.3) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.235).
J17. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2017. A model for the process of idea generation. The Design Journal. Taylor and Francis, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp 239-257, 2017 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1272244). (I.F.=0.5)
J18. Amit Patel*, Prabir Sarkar, Himanshu Tyagi, Harpreet Singh, 2016. Time value of emission and technology discounting rate for off-grid electricity generation in India using intermediate pyrolysis. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Volume 59, July 2016, Pages 10–26. Elsevier. (I.F=4.5) (doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.03.001).
J19. Sameer Gupta*, Prabir Sarkar, and Ekta Singla, 2015. Understanding different stakeholders of sustainable product and service-based systems using genetic algorithm. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (CTEP), 2015, Volume 17, Issue 6, pp 1523-1533, Springer (I.F= 2.4) (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10098-014-0880-y).
J20. Prabir Sarkar, Bhaanuj Sharma*, and Ural Malik*, 2014. Energy generation from grey water in high raised buildings: the case of India. Renewable Energy, Elsevier, Volume 69, September 2014, Pages 284–289 (I.F= 8.0) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.03.046 ). (citations=11)
J21. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2014. Ideas generated in conceptual design and their effects on creativity, Research in Engineering Design, Springer, July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3, pp 185-201 (I.F= 2.2) (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00163-014-0173-9 ). (citations=18)
J22. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2013. A support for protocol analysis for design research. Design Issues, MIT Press, vol. 29, issue- 4, pp-70-81 (I.F=3.0) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00231 ). (citations=6)
J23. Che B. Joung, John Carrell, Prabir Sarkar, Shaw C. Feng, 2013. Categorization of indicators for sustainable manufacturing. Ecological Indicators, Elsevier, Volume 24, Pages 148–157 (I.F= 5.0) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.05.030 ). (citations=207)
J24. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2011. Assessing design creativity. Design Studies, vol. 32, Issue 3, May 2011, Elsevier (I.F= 3.0) (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/design-studies/most-cited-articles/ ). [Most cited paper of 2014 in Design Studies Journal.] (citations=168)
J25. Prabir Sarkar, Phaneendra S, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2008. Developing engineering products using inspiration from nature. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, JCISE. Vol. 8, No. 3. ASME. (I.F= 1.4) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2956995 ). (citations=38)
J26. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2008. The effect of representation of triggers on design outcomes. Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, AIEDAM. Journal’s special issue on multi-modal design. Vol 22. Issue 2. Cambridge university press. (I.F=1.1) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0890060408000073) (citations=79)
J27. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prabir Sarkar, B. Leelavathamma, B.S. Nataraju, 2005. A functional representation for aiding biomimetic and artificial inspiration of new ideas. Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, AIEDAM. Vol. 19, Issue – 2, pp-113-131. Cambridge University press. (I.F.= 1.1) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0890060405050109 ). [One of the top ten most cited articles for this journal for the last two years.] (citations=330)
International Journal publications [* Students: PhD, M. Tech., JRF, and B.Tech.] (Scopus Index Journals)
J28. Kshitij Shukla, Rishish Mishra, Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Understanding soilless engineered soil as a sustainable growing material for food production in a green roof. Materials Today: Proceedings. 43 (2021) 3054–3060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.01.397. Elsevier.
J29. Prashant Kumar Singh and Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Identifying and Analyzing the Factors Affecting Disassembly of Products in Remanufacturing Organizations. Procedia CIRP (accepted). Elsevier.
J30. Dhage, S.B.*, Jayal, A. D., Sarkar, P. 2019. Effects of surface texture parameters of cutting tools on friction conditions at tool-chip interface during dry machining of AISI 1045 steel. Procedia Manufacturing, Volume 33, 2019, Pages 794-801. Elsevier (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2019.04.100).
J31. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Sheshanth Pallakonda*, Geo Raju*, Prabir Sarkar, Ekta Singla, Harpreet Singh, 2018. An Approach to Evaluate Sustainability of a Production Process Based on its LCA and Environment Impact Analysis: A Case Study on a Food Product. Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier. Volume 5, Issue 5, Part 2, 2018, Pages 12467-12473 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.02.226).
J32. Bijendra Kumar* and Prabir Sarkar, 2018. Effect of sustainability-related activity on behavior: consumer vs. designer. IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 404 012047. doi:10.1088/1757-899X/404/1/012047.
J33. L. Siddharth* and Prabir Sarkar, 2017. A Methodology for Predicting the Effect of Engineering Design Changes. Procedia CIRP, Elsevier, Vol 60, pp. 452-457 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.03.071).
J34. Gyanendra Singh Goindi*, Santosh Namdeo Chavan*, Debaprasad Mandal, Prabir Sarkar, Anshu Dhar Jayal, 2015. Investigation of ionic liquids as novel metalworking fluids during minimum quantity lubrication machining of a plain carbon steel, Procedia CIRP, Volume 26, Pages 341–345, Elsevier (doi:10.1016/j.procir.2014.09.002). (citations=5)
J35. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2015. Creativity: Generic Definition, Tests, Factors and Methods. The International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology, Europia, vol, 21, no.1 (http://europia.org/IJDST/vol21.htm ).
J36. Patel Amit R*, Sarkar Prabir, Singh Harpreet, Tyagi Himanshu, and Sagi Sudhakar, 2014. Life cycle assessment of intermediate Pyrolysis of wheat straw for sustainable energy alternate and emission mitigation. International Review of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 2248-9967 Volume 4, Number 4 (2014), pp. 325-330, Research India Publications (http://www.ripublication.com/Volume/iraerv4n4spl.htm ).
J37. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2014. What affects design outcomes of conceptual design? International Journal of Design Engineering, Inderscience, Volume 5, no. 4, pp-289-321 (http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJDE.2014.067075) .
J38. Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae-Hyun Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Sharon J. Kemmerer, 2011. Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - Workshop Summary. International Journal for Sustainable Manufacturing, vol. 2, Issue 2/3, Inderscience. (citations=17)
J39. Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Dimitris Kiritsis, Masaru Nakano, 2009. Editorial: Special Issue on: "Developing Sustainable Products, Processes and Services", International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, Vol 4, No 1-3, Inderscience (http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode= ijplm&year=2009&vol=4&issue=1/2/3).
Other Journals (Non-SCI, Non-Scopus) [* Students: PhD, M. Tech., JRF, and B.Tech.]
J40. Jitender*, Prabir Sarkar, 2018. Understanding the relationship between aesthetics and product design. International Journal of Engineering, Technology, Science and Research. Vol 5, issue 3. International Journal of Engineering, Technology, Science and Research (http://www.ijetsr.com/currentissue.php).
J41. Bijendra Kumar*, Prabir Sarkar, 2016. Prediction of future car forms based on historical trends. Perspectives in Science. Elsevier, 8, pp 764-766 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.06.082).
J42. Geo Raju*, Prabir Sarkar, Ekta Singla, Harpreet Singh, Rachit Kumar Sharma*, 2016. Comparison of Environmental Sustainability of Pharmaceutical Packaging. Perspectives in Science. Elsevier, 8, pp 683-685 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.06.058).
J43. Prabir Sarkar and Guruprasad Rao, 2013. Creativity Demystified. IPI Journal, Special issue on product design and development – part 3, April/May 2013, Vol. 18 Issue 1, Indian Plastics Institute.
J44. Gaurav Ameta and Prabir Sarkar, 2010. Comparison of electronics products standards for sustainability. International Journal of Product design, April 2010, Serials publications.
Book Chapter Publications [* Students: PhD, M. Tech., JRF, and B.Tech.]
BC1. Singh P.K.*, Sarkar P. (2019) Eco-design Approaches for Developing Eco-friendly Products: A Review. In: Shanker K., Shankar R., Sindhwani R. (eds) Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6412-9_17
BC2. Amit R Patel*, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Tyagi, 2017. Biomass, its potential and applications. In Sachin Kumar, Rajesh Sani and Indra Mani Mishra (Eds.), Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels: Opportunities and Perception. Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies series. Springer (accepted).
BC3. Amit R Patel*, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Tyagi, 2017. Biomass gasification and sustainability assessment of biomass utilization. In Sachin Kumar, Rajesh Sani and Indra Mani Mishra (Eds.), Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels: Opportunities and Perception. Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies series. Springer (accepted).
BC4. Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Anantha Narayanan, Jae Hyun Lee, Paul Witherell, 2011. Towards a Methodology for Analyzing Sustainability Standards using the Zachman Framework. In Jürgen Hesselbach and Christoph Herrmann (Eds.) Globalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing. ISBN: 978-3-642-19691-1. Springer.
BC5. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2010. Assessing innovation through product analysis. In Regalla Srinivasa Prakash and Kuldip Sangwan (Eds.), Product Design and Manufacturing: A collaborative and Product Lifecycle Approach, New Age International Publishers.
BC6. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2009. Analyzing Creativity Methods. In Amaresh Chakrabarti (Eds.), Research into Design: Supporting Multiple Facets of Product Development, Research Publishing Services.
BC7. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2008. Studying engineering design creativity- developing a common definition and associated measures. In, John Gero (Ed.) Studying Design Creativity, Springer Verlag, 2008.
BC8. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2006. Assessing degree of novelty of products to ascertain innovative products. In Bouras A., Gurumoorthy B. and Han S. (Eds.), 2006, Product life cycle management, going beyond product development and delivery, Inderscience Enterprises limited, Switzerland. (http://www.inderscience.com/ browse/ book.php? journalID= 1003&action=editorial)
International Conference Publications [* Students: PhD, M. Tech., JRF, and B.Tech.]
C1. Parth Ahuja and Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Understanding and analyzing the front profile of car for their aesthetic appeal. PDCUBE 2021 (Virtual International conference on Product design, development, and deployment (PD3-2021)11th and 12th September 2021. VIT.
C2. Alok Bihari Singh, Gaurav Gaurav, Govind Sharan Dangayach, Makkhan Lal Meena, Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Sustainability awareness, management practices adopted in hospitality industry towards sustainable development: a review. International Conference on Recent Development on Materials, Reliability, Safety and Environmental Issues (IMRSE) 2021. June 25-27, 2021. National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab.
C3. Souparna Chakraborty*, Nilanjan Mondal*, Putul Haldar, Prabir Sarkar and Chirodeep Bakli, 2021. Passive Building Cooling Using Tree-Shaped Converging Microchannel Nets. 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020). All the conference papers will be published in AIP conference proceedings (SCOPUS, Web of Science). Best paper award.
C4. Sunil Sharma* and Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Capturing knowledge transfer using Zachman framework in bioinspired design process. 8th International Conference on Research into Design. 7-10 January 2021. IDC School of Design, IIT, Bombay.
C5. Prashant Kumar Singh* and Prabir Sarkar, 2021. A Three Phase Quality Function Deployment Approach for Conceptualizing a Sustainable Product Life Cycle: Case Study of a Blower Heater. 8th International Conference on Research into Design. 7-10 January 2021. IDC School of Design, IIT, Bombay.
C6. Harmanpreet Singh*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh and Fateh Singh*, 2021. Sustainable Design and development of Stubble removing agricultural machine for stopping the burning of paddy stubble. 8th International Conference on Research into Design. 7-10 January 2021. IDC School of Design, IIT, Bombay.
C7. Jitender* and Prabir Sarkar, 2019. Identify and understand the physical characteristics that are responsible for masculine nature of a car. International Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (December 5-7, 2019).
C8. Jitender*, and Prabir Sarkar, 2019. Identifying non-visual factors that affect the cognitive appeal of cars in the mind of a prospective buyer. Accepted in Responsible Design for Our Future. The 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, Delft, Netherlands (5 – 8 August 2019). [Due to fund issue we do not register to this conference.] Accepted in International Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (December 5-7, 2019).
C9. P.K. Singh*, P. Sarkar, 2019. A DEMATEL Approach to Evaluate the Enablers for Effective Implementation of Eco-design in Sustainable Product Development: A Case of MSMEs. In: International Conference on Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing System (ICIPDIMS - 2019) held at NIT Rourkela, 17-18 May, 2019. To be published in the "Springer Book Series" with a DOI.
C10. Sunil Sharma* and Prabir Sarkar, 2019. Biomimicry: exploring research, challenges, gaps and tools. 7th International Conference on Research into Design, 9-11 January 2019, IISc, Bangalore.
C11. Hanumant A. Chate*, Avinash Kumar*, Prabir Sarkar, Chirodeep Bakli, 2018. Analysis of Performance of Soft Pelton Turbine Buckets with Hydrodynamic Slip for Small Scale Applications. Proceedings of the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), December 10-12, 2018, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
C12. Dhage, S.B.*, Jayal, A. D., Sarkar, P., 2018. “Effects of surface texture parameters of cutting tools on friction conditions at tool-chip interface during dry machining of AISI 1045 steel,” 16th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Lexington Kentucky, USA, October 2-4, 2018.
C13. Jitender*, Prabir Sarkar, 2018. Understanding the relationship between aesthetics and product design. International conference on Research trends in Engineering, Applied Science and Management (ICRTESM-2018), 11th march 2018, Punjab University Campus, Chandigarh, India.
C14. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, 2017. Sustainability in supply networks: a literature survey on determining factors and initiatives adopted. 2017 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Environmental Management and Green Technologies (ICEMGT), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
C15. Rachit Kumar Sharma*, Sheshanth Pallakonda*, Geo Raju*, Prabir Sarkar, Ekta Singla, Harpreet Singh, 2017. Evaluating sustainability of the manufacturing process of a food product based on energy and resource inputs. International Conference on Materials, Manufacturing and Modelling, 9-11 March 2017. VIT.
C16. Aditya Goyal* and Prabir Sarkar, 2017. Aesthetics In Automotive Design: Finding an Aesthetically Likable Car Form. IEEE International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (ICSTEM'17). KIT-Kalaignarkarunanidhi Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, March 3-4 March 2017.
C17. Bijendra Kumar* and Prabir Sarkar, 2017. Understanding perception of sustainable product: consumer vs. producer. IEEE International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (ICSTEM'17). KIT-Kalaignarkarunanidhi Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, March 3-4 March 2017.
C18. Amit Patel*, Himanshu Tyagi, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, 2017. Sustainable Energy Assessment Criteria of Intermediate Pyrolysis of Wheat Straw as a Renewable Energy Alternative. International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges. February 26-27, 2017. Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Sector 81, Mohali, Punjab.
C19. Bijendra Kumar* and Prabir Sarkar, 2017. A Tool for Generating New and Appropriate Methods for Supporting Various Design Processes. International Conference on Research into Design (ICORD) 2017, 9-11 January 2017, IIT Guwahati.
C20. Jitendra* and Prabir Sarkar, 2017. Reduction of environmental impact of products through Hotspot analysis in LCA. International Conference on Research into Design (ICORD) 2017, 9-11 January 2017, IIT Guwahati.
C21. Bijendra Kumar*, Prabir Sarkar, 2016. Understanding effect of background on car aesthetics. 4th International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE-2016), National of Technology Jalandhar, India, 19-21 Dec, 2016.
C22. Bijendra Kumar*, Prabir Sarkar, 2016. Awareness of government initiative on sustainable development. 4th International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE-2016), National of Technology Jalandhar, India, 19-21 Dec, 2016.
C23. Sagar B. Dhage*, Anshu Dhar Jayal, and Prabir Sarkar, 2016. Effects of cutting tool surface texturing on the surface integrity of machined AISI 1045. Proceedings of First Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE-2016), Bangalore, July 4-6, 2016.
C24. L. Siddharth* and Prabir Sarkar, 2016. A methodology for predicting the effect of engineering design changes. Fourth International Conference on Design Creativity (4th ICDC), Atlanta, GA, November 2nd-4th, 2016 (accepted, however not presented).
C25. Geo Raju*, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, Ekta Singla, Rachit Sharma*, 2016. Comparison of Environmental Sustainability of Pharmaceutical Packing. International conference on recent trends in engineering and material science, (ICEMS-2016) March 17-19, 2016, Jaipur National University, Jaipur.
C26. Bijendra Kumar*, Prabir Sarkar, 2016. Prediction of future car forms based on historical trends. International conference on recent trends in engineering and material science, (ICEMS-2016) March 17-19, 2016, Jaipur National University, Jaipur.
C27. Geo Raju*, Harpreet Singh, Prabir Sarkar, Ekta Singla, 2016. A framework for evaluation of environmental sustainability in pharmaceutical industry. Dipak Kumar Mandal and Chanan Singh Syam (Eds.), Lecture notes in mechanical engineering, CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future 2016, Springer ISSN 219-4356. DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2740-3.
C28. Patel A. R. *, Sarkar Prabir, Singh Harpreet, Tyagi Himanshu, Sagi Sudhakar, 2015. Emission discounting method for mitigation of environmental issues. Fist IEEE Uttar Pradesh Conference-International Conference on Energy Economics and Environment (UPCON-ICEEE 2015), March 27-28, 2015, Greater Noida, India.
C29. Prabir Sarkar, Srinivas Kota, Bijendra Kumar*, 2015. Understanding consumers’ perceptions of sustainable products in India. International Conference on Research in Design, ICORD 2015, Bangalore, India, 7-9th January, 2015. (Also published as Springer book chapter, CoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2 in Volume 35 of the series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies pp 99-112.)
C30. Goindi, G. S.*, Chavan, S. N., Jayal, A. D., Mandal, D., Sarkar, P, 2014. Investigation of ionic liquids as metalworking fluids in minimum quantity lubrication machining of AISI 1045 steel. 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2014), Guwahati, 12-14, December, 2014.
C31. Dhage, S. B.*, Jayal, A. D., Sarkar, P., 2014. Investigation of surface textured cutting tools for sustainable machining. 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2014), Guwahati, 12-14, December, 2014.
C32. Sameer Gupta*, Prabir Sarkar, and Ekta Singla, 2014. Understanding Different Stakeholders of Sustainable Product and Service Based Systems using Genetic Algorithm for Sustainable Manufacturing. 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2014), Guwahati, 12-14, December, 2014.
C33. Prabir Sarkar and Bijendra Kumar*, 2014. Identifying Tools for Remotely Located Collaborative Interactions Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering and Computation Sciences, IEEE sponsored RAECS, UIET Panjab University Chandigarh, 06 – 08 March, 2014.
C34. Patel Amit R*, Sarkar Prabir, Singh Harpreet, Tyagi Himanshu, and Sagi Sudhakar, 2014. Life cycle assessment of intermediate Pyrolysis of wheat straw for sustainable energy alternate and emission mitigation. International conference on "Innovative Trends in Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing, Automotive, Automobile and Aeronautical Engineering (ITMMMAAAE)- 2014, 15th- 16th, February 2014. New Delhi.
C35. Prabir Sarkar, Che Bong Joung, John Carrell, Shaw Feng, 2011. Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository. ASME 2011, International design engineering technical conference & computers and information in engineering conference, August 28-31, Washington DC, USA. Paper no. DETC2011-47491 pp. 943-950.
C36. Paul Witherell, Prabir Sarkar, Anantha Narayanan, Jae Hyun Lee, Sudarsan Rachuri, 2011. An Approach for Identifying Gaps and Overlaps in Standards to Determine Product Applicability. ASME 2011, International design engineering technical conference & computers and information in engineering conference, August 28-31, Washington DC, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/DETC2011-48631.
C37. Anantha Narayanan, Jae Hyun Lee, Paul Witherell, Prabir Sarkar, Sudarsan Rachuri, 2011. An Information Modeling Methodology for Sustainability Standards. ASME 2011, International design engineering technical conference & computers and information in engineering conference, August 28-31, Washington DC, USA. Volume 2: 31st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B. ISBN: 978-0-7918-5479-2.
C38. Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Anantha Narayanan, Jae Hyun Lee, Paul Witherell, 2011. Towards a Methodology for Analyzing Sustainability Standards using the Zachman Framework. Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2nd - 4th, 2011.
C39. Vicente Chulvi; Elena Mulet; Amaresh Chakrabarti; Srinivasan V; Prabir Sarkar, 2010. Quantitative measure of creativity related to SAPPhIRE-based method. Design computing and cognition, DCC 2010, 12–14 July 2010, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
C40. Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D Sriram, Prabir Sarkar, 2009. Metrics, standards and industry best practices for sustainable manufacturing systems. 5th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2009), August 22 to 25, 2009 (Invited paper). (citations=29)
C41. Prabir Sarkar, Sudarsan Rachuri, Hyo Won Suh, Kevin Lyons, Ram D. Sriram, 2009. A Measure of Product Sustainability Based on Triple Bottom Line. ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, San Diego, California, USA.
C42. Prabir Sarkar and Hyo Won Suh, 2009. Environmental impact of manufactured products: A measure inspired by nature. International Conference on Product Life cycle Management, PLM 2009, University of Bath, UK.
C43. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2008. Analyzing creativity methods, International Conference on Research in Design, ICORD 2009, Bangalore, India.
C44. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2007. Development of a method for assessing design creativity, International conference on engineering design, ICED’07, 28 - 31 August 2007, Paris. (citations=35)
C45. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2007. Understanding search in design, International conference on engineering design, ICED’07, 28 - 31 August 2007, Paris. (citations=25)
C46. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2007. Developing novel technical systems using ideas from nature, International conference on engineering design, ICED’07, 28 - 31 August 2007, Paris.
C47. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2007. A tool for supporting protocol analysis, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED’07, 28 - 31 August 2007, Paris.
C48. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2006. Assessing degree of novelty of products to ascertain innovative products. International Conference on Product Life Cycle Management, PLM, 2006.
C49. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prabir Sarkar, B. Leelavathamma, B.S. Nataraju, 2005. A behavioural model for representing biological and artificial systems for inspiring novel designs, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 05, Melbourne, August 15– 18, 2005.
National Conference and Symposium Publications [* Students: PhD, M. Tech., JRF, and B.Tech.]
C50. Sagar Bhimraj Dhage*, Gyanendra Singh Goindi*, Anshu Dhar Jayal, Prabir Sarkar, 2013. Influence of cutting tool flank surface texture in mechanical micro-manufacturing of AISI 1045 steel. National conference on manufacturing, vision for future, Oct 12-13, 2013, IIT Guwahati.
C51. Prabir Sarkar, 2008. Supporting search of design spaces during design, Symposium on Research in Product Design, 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
C52. Prabir Sarkar, 2007. Exploring creativity, Symposium on Research in Product Design, 2007, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
C53. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2006. Determining and measuring product novelty to ascertain innovation in product development cycle. Proceedings of the National Conference on Design for Product Life Cycle, DPLC. February 17-18, 2006, BITS, Pilani.
C54. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prabir Sarkar, Phaneendra.S, B.S. Nataraju, 2005. A Behavioural Model for Representing Natural and Artificial Systems for Inspiring Novel Designs. Proceedings of 5th National Seminar on Aerospace and related Mechanisms, ARMS, 2005. November 18-19, 2005, ISRO, Bangalore.
C55. Prabir Sarkar and K.Vijay, 1997. “Implementation of expert system on wire-cutting EDM”, presented in National Level Technical Symposium, held at R.E.C, Kurukshetra, India, Literati, 1997.
International Workshop
IW1. Prabir Sarkar, Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D Sriram, 2009. Understanding sustainability of products. Indo-US workshop on Designing Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems, Bangalore India, Aug 18-20, 2009.
IW2. Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2008. Studying engineering design creativity, Invited paper in the Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Studying Design Creativity, John Gero (ed.), Aix-en-Provence, France, March 2008.
Datasets
D1. Kumar, Bijendra*; Sarkar, Prabir, 2017. “Car Advertisement (Study Materials)”, Mendeley Data, v8 http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/5snrynxwn4.8
D2. Singh, Jitender*; Sarkar, Prabir (2019), “Dataset on non-visual factors along with sub factors that affects the aesthetics appeal of cars in the mind of potential buyers”, Mendeley Data, v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/m3jb5nt2tf.1.
Technical Reports
TR1. Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae-Hyun Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Sharon J. Kemmerer (Eds.), 2010. Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure Workshop report, NISTIR.
TR2. Dozer group, BEML, 2002. DSIR (Govt. of India’s Department for Scientific and Industrial Research) report on directional boring system.
TR3. Dozer group, BEML, 2002. TIFAC (Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council) report on Radio Controlled Dozer (Disaster management equipment).
III. Teaching
Courses taught at IIT Ropar
2021 Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing Systems (ME 559), taught this course for Mechanical Engineering graduate students during Jan-May, 2021.
2021 Manufacturing Laboratory-I (ME 208) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Jan- May, 2021.
2020 Additive Manufacturing (ME549), teaching for Mechanical undergraduate, graduate and PhD students during August- December 2020.
2020 Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing Systems (ME 559), taught this course for Mechanical Engineering graduate students during Jan-May, 2020.
2020 Manufacturing Laboratory-II (ME 308) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Jan- May, 2020.
2019 Manufacturing Systems (MEL 402), taught this course for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during July-Dec, 2019.
2019 Manufacturing Laboratory (MEP 302) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during July-Dec, 2019.
2019 Tinkering lab (GE 107) co-taught for undergraduate students during Jan-May, 2019.
2019 Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (MEL 517) course for PhD and Masters’ students during Jan-May 2019.
2018 Manufacturing Laboratory (MEP 302) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during July-Dec, 2018 (Students’ feedback: 3.5/5.0-part).
2018 Manufacturing Systems (MEL 402), taught this course for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during July-Dec, 2018(Students’ feedback: 3.3/5.0).
2018 Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (MEL 517) course for PhD and Masters’ students during Jan-May 2018 (Students’ feedback: 3.6/5.0).
2018 Product design and realization Intermediate, II (MEP 205) taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Jan-May 2018 (Students’ feedback: 3.71/5.0).
2017 Manufacturing Laboratory (MEP 302) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during July-Dec, 2017.
2017 Manufacturing Systems (MEL 402), taught this course for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during July-Dec, 2017.
2017 Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (MEL 517) course for PhD and Masters’ students during Jan-May 2017.
2017 Product design and realization Intermediate, II (MEP 205) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Jan-May 2017.
2016 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2016.
2016 Manufacturing Laboratory (MEP 302) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2016.
2016 Product design and realization Intermediate, II (MEP 205) course for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Spring 2016.
2015 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2015.
2015 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (MEL 474) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Summer 2015.
2015 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Spring 2015.
2014 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2014.
2014 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (MEL 474) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2014.
2014 Design Research (Mel 467) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering graduate and undergraduate students during summer 2014.
2014 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Spring 2014.
2013 Product design and realization Intermediate, II (MEP 205) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2013.
2013 Mechanical engineering (MEN 100) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2013.
2013 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2013.
2013 Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (MEL 517) co-instructed course for graduate students during Fall 2012.
2013 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Spring 2013.
2013 Design Research (Mel 467) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering graduate and undergraduate students during Spring 2013.
2012 Mechanical engineering (MEN 100) co-taught for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2012.
2012 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2012.
2012 Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (MEL 517) co-instructed course for graduate students during Spring 2012.
2012 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Spring 2012.
2011 Product design and realization –I (GEL 101) course for Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students during Fall 2011.
Short term courses
2010 Design of cars, a short course for senior students, Frederick school, Maryland, USA.
2014 Advanced Aesthetics, a short course for Master of Design students at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
2003 Computer Aided Design, a short course taught at Kolar Gold Fields
1998 Computer Aided Design, a short course taught at Trichy
IV. Services
Professional services
Editor/ Editorial board member
· Associate Editor, Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, ASTM (SCI listed).
· Associate Editor, Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology, Frontiers (New journal)
· Editorial board member, Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, Emerald (SCI listed).
· Editorial board member, International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR) journals.
· Founder editor-in-chief of International Journal of Product Design, Serials Publications (http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=477&jtype=1), 2008-2011.
· Special issue editor of International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Special Issue: Developing sustainable products, processes and services. (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijplm).
Journal reviewer
· Springer Publisher: Research in Engineering Design, (many papers), Sadhana, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, Environment, Systems and Decisions
· Taylor and Francis: Journal of Engineering Design (many papers), Co-Design, Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation
· Inderscience: International Journal of Design Engineering, International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise (IJIE)
· Elsevier: Design studies, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, SME
· ASME: Journal of Mechanical design
· IEEE: T-ASE
· Cambridge University Press: Design science
Conference reviewer
· 5th International Conference on PLMSS 2015.
· International conference on research into design (ICoRD'15), Bangalore, India
· International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), ASME 2014
· IEEE-TASE, 2013, Aston university
· iNaCoMM, 2013. 1st International and 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, IIT Roorkee.
· ACM SIGCHI Creativity & Cognition 2009 conference, October 27-30, 2009. Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley, USA
· International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), ASME 2011
· International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), ASME 2009
· Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, 2008 (DCC, 2008), 23-25 June, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
· Seventh International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2008), April 21-25, 2008, Izmir, Turkey
International program committee member
· 28th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, March 10th – 12th 2021, Jaipur, India
· International Programme Committee of the ICORD, 2021.
· International Programme Committee of the ICORD, 2017. 5th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD'17), IIT Guwahati, India
· International Programme Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Design Creativity (3rd ICDC), 2014
· International Programme Committee of the ICORD, 2015. 5th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD'13), Bangalore, India
· International Programme Committee of the ICORD, 2013. 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD'13), Bangalore, India
Academic and administrative services in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar
· Member, ME faculty shortlisting committee (2017-present)
· Member, Departmental purchase recommendation committee (DPRC, 2016-present)
· Member, Departmental financial planning and resource allocation committee (2017-present)
· Member, web development committee (2012-present)
· Member, manufacturing machines, tools, and equipment committee (2013- present)
· Member, standing purchase committee for manufacturing group (13.9.2011-present)
· Member, short listing committee member for SMMEE faculty recruitment (2011, 2012)
· Member, purchase committee of Product design and realization computer laboratory (2013)
· Member, expert talk organization committee (2016-present)
· Member, Departmental Junior Lab Assistant recruitment committee (2016-present)
· Member, Departmental Staff Recruitment Committee (2016-2018)
· Founder faculty, Design research laboratory (2012-present)
· Co-founder faculty, Sustainable design and manufacturing laboratory (2012- present)
· Co-founder faculty, Design studio laboratory (2013-current)
· ME Masters students’ advisor, 2017 Batch
· Member, Departmental research committee- DPGC (2017-present)
Academic and administrative services at IIT Ropar
· Chairman and Nodal officer IPR cell (2015-present)- initiated the cell and supporting IPR for the last few years. Number of IPRs applications have increased.
· Co-coordinator of the central workshop (2012-2018)
· Member, Doctoral Committee (DC) for the following students of the department and the Institute: 1. Ashpreet Singh 2. Jaspreet Singh Chahal 3. Ashis Gupta 4. Sameer Gupta 5. Neha Singh Bhakal 6. Saikha Bhatta 7. Harish Kumar Nirala 8. Devi Prasad Dash 9. Mahima Gulati 10. Rajesh Sharma 11. Kirandeep Kaur 12. Sandeep Kumar 13. Vishal Agarawal 14. Amit Patel 15. Mohit Raj Saxena 16. Lakhani Piyush 17. Abhishek Kumar 18. Devi Prasad Dash 19. Siddharth Chauhan 20. Sanjeev Singh Yadav 21. Disha Sharma 22. Nagandra SM 23. Pompi Chetia 24. Parminder Singh
· Member, Web development committee of the institute (2012-present)
· Member, Institute Ranking Committee (2016-present)
· Member, banner and hoarding committee (2012-2015)
· Member, guest house facility committee (2012-2013)
· Member of the selection committee of Junior Attendant (Semi-skilled) (ME) (09.05.2013)
· Member, new campus development committee (2013-2015)
· Member, Institute car purchase and renting committee (2013-present)
· Coordinator of Product design and realization manufacturing laboratory (workshop) (2013-present)
· Developed four products for Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) group (2013, 2014)
· Member of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, IIT Ropar (2015-present)
· Started Intellectual Property Cell (IPR cell) at IIT Ropar and received an initial grant from PSCST (July 2014- present) and coordinating with Patent Information Centre (PSC), Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) and Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Government of India for patent filing (2013-present)
· Member, Board of Directors, IIT Ropar Technology Business Incubator Foundation (TBIF)- 2019- present
International conferences/workshops/design exhibitions co-organized
· Workshop conducted: Sunil Sharma*, Prabir Sarkar, 2021. Generating Bioinspired design (Biomimicry) for solving problems. 8th International Conference on Research into Design(ICORD 2021). 7-10 January, 2021 . IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay.
· Session Chair for Design Ideation, Creativity and Synthesis session in the 8th International Conference on Research into Design(ICORD 2021). 7-10 January, 2021 . IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. India.
· Conducted workshop on "Bio mimicry in design of packaging systems" and "Redesign of a car to improve aesthetics of cars and evaluation of a new method to improve aesthetic appeal of cars" in Chandigarh university for B.Des. students on 19.7.19.
· Conducted 4th Intellectual Property Rights workshop on 17th September, 2018
· Conducted a one-day workshop on IPR at IIT Ropar, 24th Jan 2018.
· Session moderator of Industrial academia conclave (IAC), 2016, IIT Ropar.
· Conducted a one-day workshop on IPR at IIT Ropar, 3 March 2015.
· Session moderator of Industrial academia conclave (IAC), 2015, IIT Ropar.
· Session chair and conducted a workshop on sustainability at the International Conference on Research in Design, ICORD 2015, Bangalore, India, 7-9th January 2015.
· Co-chair of 29th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Product Lifecycle Management for Sustainable Manufacturing (CIE-9-1 PLM-1), ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 28 –September 2, 2009, San Diego.
· Indo-US Workshop on Designing Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems, Bangalore, India, Aug 18-20, 2009.
· NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure, October 13-15 2009, NIST.
· Research in Product Design, 2007 and 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
· Indo –US Workshop, Engineering design, 2007, Bangalore.
· Green Design Workshop, 2007, Bangalore.
· Ripples 2000, 2005, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
· Technical Program committee member of Prodigy, 1997- a technical symposium, National Institute Technology, Trichy.
Others
· Member, selection committee Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
· Thesis evaluator of several M.Tech, Ph.D students of various colleges.
· External Expert, Research Degree Committee (RDC), Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali.
· Academic expert, Board of Studies, Industrial Design, Chandigarh University, Mohali.
V. Design activities
New product development
Designed as a lead engineer the first radio-controlled dozer of India while working for BEML (2000-2002).
Invented an auto-disposable syringe and patented the design (MAS/2000).
Design and developed various industrial projects such as load indicator deck lamps for a dumper (BH85), joysticks for dumpers for hoist control, and new dashboards for dumpers (BH85) for the universal electronic controller.
Co-developed stubble removing agricultural machine for stopping stubble burning.
Various consultancy projects were carried out both as a consultant and as a volunteer.
For portfolio, please visit my website at www.prabirsarkar.com
Website developments
Indo-US workshop website
CPDM Department website (CPDM), IISc, 2005
Ideas Lab website, (CPDM), IISc, 2005
Sustainability standards portal, NIST
Software developments
Intelligent Designer - Design of Jigs and Press Working Tools using AI (C++, AutoCAD) (BE Project)
Idea-Transcribe – An aid for design researchers for transcribing protocols (VB, Media player, Spreadsheet)
Idea-Inspire (in a team) - An aid to help designers generate solutions (VC++, OpenGL)
Idea-Trigger – An aid to trigger ideas (VB, VC++, OpenGL) (Ph.D. work)
Planner – Planning software for researchers (VB)
Medical equipment design
2015 Developed ‘Bone alignment measuring system’ along with four students of IIT Ropar and with Dr. Chawan of PGI hospital, Chandigarh, 2015
2015 Developed “improved surgical cutter for plastic surgery” for Dr. Sunil Gaba of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh along with Dr. S. S. Padhee and Mr Sameer Mishra, a summer internship student, 2015
Design exhibitions conducted
2017 Design exhibition at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in November 2017
2017 Design exhibition at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in April 2017
2016 Design exhibition at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in November 2016 (guided products displayed= 16).
2016 Design exhibition at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in April 2016 (guided products displayed= 8).
2015 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in November 2015 (guided products = 18 approx.).
2015 Design exhibition at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in April 2015 (guided products displayed= 14).
2014 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in November 2014 (guided products displayed= 18).
2014 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in April 2014 (guided products displayed= 24).
2013 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in November 2013 (guided products displayed= 28).
2013 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in April 2013 (guided products displayed= 28).
2012 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in November 2012 (guided products displayed= 24).
2012 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in April 2012 (guided products displayed= 14).
2011 Design exhibition conducted for undergraduate students in November 2011 (guided products displayed= 28).
VI. Other information
Certificates and Internship Training
2001 FESTO, Bangalore. Electro-Pneumatics certified course, 1 week, 2001.
2001 Bharat Earth Movers Limited, Kolar Gold Fields. Management Training, 1 week, 2001
1997 Hindustan Motor, Kolkata. Project: Material Handling in Camshaft section, 15 days, 1997
1996 Ordinance Factory, Kolkata. Project: Study of stabilizer unit of AT Missiles, 15 days, 1996
1996 Jessop and Company Limited, Kolkata.1 month, 1996
Computer knowledge
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, with a good knowledge of windows administration
Graphics packages: Coral Draw, Adobe Photoshop, Alias Sketchbook Pro
Web authoring tools: Dreamweaver
CAD/CAM packages: SolidWorks, Catia, Rhinoceros, IDEAS, AutoCAD, Pro-E, Inventor
Programming: Visual Basic, C++
CNC programming: CNC milling with FANUC, CNC lathe
Others: Microsoft office, C-panel admin
Web developer and system administrator, CPDM Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from 1998 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2007
Memberships
· Fellow of Institute of Engineers, India (F-1241253)
· Chartered Engineer (India) in Mechanical Engineering (F-1241253)
· Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), membership number: 100037361 (2009-current)
· Member of Design Society (DS), UK, membership number: DS00766 (2012-current)
· Member of IEEE (Member #90634796) (2014- 2015)
· Life member of Indian Science Congress Association, membership number: L26809
· Member of SIG, Design Creativity, Design Society (2008-current)
· Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG) (130646) (2013-current)
· Senior Member, Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (APCBEES) (100789) (2013-current)
· Life member, Indian Society for Technical Education (LM 107365)
Collaborations
· Prof. Koustuv Dalal, Professor in Public Health Economics, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
· Dr. Chirodeep Bakli, IIT Kharagpur
· Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Professor, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012, India.
· Dr. Sudarsan Rachuri, Federal Program Manager, US Department of Energy. Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO), Washington D.C.
· Dr. Shaw Feng, Project leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA.
· Dr. Jae Hyun Lee, Assistant professor, Industrial and management engineering, College of Engineering, Daegu University, Republic of Korea.
· Prof. Jagjit Singh Srai, Head, International Manufacturing Institute for Manufacturing, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge
· Dr Mukesh Kumar, Lecturer, Institute for Manufacturing, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge
· Prof. Sameer K. Srivastava, Professor, Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
· Prof. Hyo Won Suh, Professor, KAIST, South Korea
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