International Conferences publications sorted according to research areas

 Creativity in design

 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).

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.

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.

Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2008. Analyzing creativity methods, International Conference on Research in Design, ICORD 2009, Bangalore, India.

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)

Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2007. Understanding search in design, International conference on engineering design, ICED’07, 28 - 31 August 2007, Paris. (citations=25)

Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2006. Assessing degree of novelty of products to ascertain innovative products. International Conference on Product Life Cycle Management, PLM, 2006.

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.

Aesthetics in engineering

 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.

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).

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.] International Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (December 5-7, 2019).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ergonomics

 Simranjeet Kaur, Kamalpreet Sandhu*, Prabir Sarkar, Karupppasamy Subburaj, 2024. Understanding user experience: exploration of various definitions using natural language process. 10th International Conference on Research into Design- ICoRD'25. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India during January 8-10, 2025. (accepted)

Engineering design

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). BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus Best paper award.

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.

Conceptual design or Initial Phase of design

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.

Prabir Sarkar, Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2007. A tool for supporting protocol analysis, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED’07, 28 - 31 August 2007, Paris.

Entrepreneurship thinking

Kamalpreet Sandhu*, Prabir Sarkar, Karupppasamy Subburaj, 2024. Identification of Skills for Entrepreneurship Thinking Using Natural Language Processing: An Exploration of Entrepreneurs, Faculties members and design students. 10th International Conference on Research into Design- ICoRD'25. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India during January 8-10, 2025. (accepted)

 Design pedagogy

Sandhu K., Sarkar P., “Stimulus Based pedagogy in Design Education”, International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’ 25), IISC Bangalore (Accepted)

 General sustainability

 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.

 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eco –design or sustainable Design

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.

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. Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, 123-133.Part of the Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering book series (LNME) (Scopus). 

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.)

Life cycle assessment

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. Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021, 869-879

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.

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.

Sustainable manufacturing

 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Sustainable supply chain

 Sandeep Kumar*, Prabir Sarkar and Akhil Sharma*, 2024. A Thorough Examination of Machine Learning Applications in the Management of Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Science (BAMS-ORSI 2024), 12-14 December, 2024. IIT Bombay. (accepted)

Singh, A.B., Dangayach, G.S., Meena, M.L. and Sarkar, P., 2024. “Navigating Uncertainty: Cutting-Edge Approaches in Process Control and Monitoring for Risk Mitigation in Supply Chain Management” in “The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Processes” during 29-31 May 2024 at University of Turin, Italy.

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.

 Sustainable energy

 Singh, A.B., Dangayach, G.S., Meena, M.L. and Sarkar, P., 2024. “Toward Sustainability: Interventions for Implementing Energy-Efficient Systems in Hotel Buildings” in “The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Processes” during 29-31 May 2024 at University of Turin, Italy.

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.

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.

Standards and policy

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.

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.

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.

Sustainability in hospitality industry

 Singh, A.B., Sarkar, P., Dangayach, G.S., and Meena, M.L., 2022. “Current understanding, and effects of implementation of sustainable initiatives in the hospitality industry” in “2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Water Science and Technology (ICRAWST-2022)” during 8th – 9th December 2022, at Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Singh, A.B., Gaurav, G., Sarkar, P., Dangayach, G.S., and Meena, M.L., 2022. “Contribution of Sustainable Hotel Practices to Achieve Sustainable Development” in “International Conference on Advanced Research in Industrial & Manufacturing Applications” (ICARIMA-2022)” during October 13-14, 2022, at the University of Mauritius in collaboration with MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Singh, A.B., Gaurav, G., Sarkar, P. Dangayach, G.S., and Meena, M.L., 2022. “Current Understanding, Indicators, and Barriers Towards Implementing Sustainable Initiatives in Hospitality Industry” In International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (ICETMIE 2022) at The NorthCap University Gurugram, Haryana, March 4-5, 2022.

Singh, A.B., Gaurav, G., Dangayach, G.S., Meena, M.L. and Sarkar, P., 2021. Indicators, Barriers and Motivations for Sustainable Hospitality Industry. In International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management at MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, December 17-19, 2021.

Singh, A.B., Dangayach, G.S., Meena, M.L. and Sarkar, P., 2021. Effects of Sustainability Initiatives on Performance of Hospitality Industry. In Global Conference on Innovations in Management and Business (GCIMB 2021) Chapman University of California, Howard University of Washington, D.C. USA, ISBN 978-1-953224-01-9, 2021.

 Biomimicry in engineering design

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agriculture

Akhil Sharma*, Prabir Sarkar, Mandeep Rana and Sandeep Kumar*, 2024. Design and Development of Automated Desktop Herbal Garden.International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Science (BAMS-ORSI 2024), 12-14 December, 2024. IIT Bombay. (accepted)