Team

Faculty

Dr. Prabir Sarkar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. Dr. Sarkar’s research interests include product design, sustainability, creativity, and design research. He is interested in developing new methods and tools for helping designers and companies to design novel, useful, and sustainable products, processes, and services.

Departmental site link: https://mech.iitrpr.ac.in/faculty-profiles-detailed/prabir-sarkar

Personal website: www.prabirsarkar.com 

PhD students

  1. Kamalpreet Sandhu

Area of research: Entrepreneurship thinking 

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2. Sandeep Kumar

Research Interest: Supply Chain Management, Machine Learning (ML)  

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3. Akhil Sharma

Research Interest:  Product design in Industry 4.0

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4. Subha Nath

5. Saikat Biswas

6. Sohail Akhtar

7. Prateek Kumar

PhD Alumni

1. Gyanendra Singh Goindi

Supervisors: Dr. Prabir Sarkar and Dr. Anshu Dhar Jayal

PhD thesis title: Investigation of Ionic liquids as metalworking fluids in minimum quantity machining.

Duration: 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. (NAAC Grade A+ university, QS ranked)

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2. Sagar Dhage 


Supervisors: Dr. Prabir Sarkar and Dr. Anshu Dhar Jayal

Thesis title: Investigation of surface textured cutting tools for machining of medium carbon steel,

Duration: January 2012-March 2017. Submitted: Nov 2017. Defended: Nov 2018. Degree awarded: 3/12/18.

Current position: Associate Professor and Assistant Director (corp), JSPM Narhe Technical Campus, Pune.

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3. Umesh Chaturvedi 

Supervisors:  Prof. G.S. Dangayach, Dr. Monica Sharma, Dr. Prabir Sarkar

Thesis title: Sustainability in Indian pharmaceutical companies. Joined under External Registration Program in MNIT, Jaipur.

Duration: January 2014- July 2019. Submitted on 15th July 2019. Defended on 7.2.2020. Degree awarded.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Business Mangement, GLA University, Mathura (NAAC Grade A+ university)

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4. Bijendra Kumar 

Supervisor: Dr. Prabir Sarkar

Thesis title: Assessing and improving sustainability of products during conceptual design.

Duration: August 2013-2018. Synopsis completed on 22.02.19. Submitted on 26th June 2019. Defended on 14.5.20. Degree awarded.

Current position: Working as Track Design Engineer at Japan International Consultants for Transportation Co. Ltd. (JIC).

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5. Rachit Kumar Sharma

Supervisors: Dr. Prabir Sarkar and Prof. Harpreet Singh

Thesis title: Assessing and improving sustainability in supply networks of manufacturing organizations. Through DST (India) -EPSRC (UK) funded Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Network Design project.

Duration: January 2016-2021. Synopsis completed on 12.10.2020. Submitted on 8.12.2020. Defended on 29.6.2021. Degree awarded.

Current position: Employed in a foreign sustainability assessment firm.

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6. Prashant Kumar Singh

Supervisor: Dr. Prabir Sarkar

Thesis title: Understanding and Developing Eco design Support for Environmentally Conscious Product Development. 

Duration: August, 2016-2021. Synopsis completed on 8.9.2021. Defended: 02/08/2022. Degree awarded. 

Current position:  Faculty and Associate Dean at Invertis university 

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7. Jitender

Supervisor: Dr. Prabir Sarkar

Thesis title: Understanding and Supporting Designers to Improve the Engineering Aesthetics of a Product. Through DST, CSRI funded project and later institute. 

Duration: January 2017. Defended: 20.12.2023. Degree awarded. 

Current position: Post doc in AWaDH. 

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8. Sunil Sharma

Supervisor: Dr. Prabir Sarkar

Thesis title: Developing bioinspired design approaches to support packaging. Joined under the External Registration Program.

Duration: Defended: 21.12.2023. Degree awarded.

Current position: Associate Professor and Head of Department (HoD)-Department of Evaluation-Regular, Division of Examination at Lovely Professional University

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9. Alok Bihari Singh

Supervisors: Prof. Govind Sharan Dangayach, Dr. Makkhan Lal Meena and Dr. Prabir Sarkar

Thesis title: Assessment of Sustainability Practices in Hospitality Sector: A Select Study of Indian Hotel Industry. 

Duration: Defended: 6th Sep 2024. 

Current position: Waiting for degree to be awarded and looking for a suitable job

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Graduate (Masters students) -Completed

1. Ankit Verma. Design and Implementation of an Automated Monitoring System in Vertical Farming (co-guides: Dr. Prabir Sarkar and Dr. Ekta Singla)

2. Yagesh Kumar (guide). Biomimicry: Nature inspired innovations. Completed, July 2024.

3. Loga Vignesh (jointly guided by Dr. Pal, Director, CoE FDDI, GoI). A Fusion of Machine Learning and IoT for Enhanced Safety and Fall Detection. Completed, June 2024.

4. Rishav Pachoriya (guide). Development of support to capture design intent in each phase of product

Design. Completed, June 2023.

5. Suraj Goala (guide). Design-Assist Tool - Deciding the Efficacy of Additive Manufacturing Processes and Assisting Product Designers using DfAM. Completed, 2021.

6. Suraj Gururani (guide). Analysis of design fixation and its mitigation with the help of bioinspired design. Completed, 2021

7. Abhishek Chauhan (guide). Design Aesthetic of an Electric two-wheeler. Completed, 2021.

8. Sai Teja Pothuri (guide). Development of an automation module for Microgreen Roofing, 2019.

9. Sarang E Tayade (guide). Understanding the relationship between stock and performance of companies, May 2018.

10. Rohit Bamne (guide). Study of driving behaviour on the basis of distractions, July 2018.

11. Jitender (co-guide). Development of a method for benchmarking sustainable products (external: NIT Srinagar, J&K), completed, 2016.

Undergraduate projects- B.Tech. Completed

Undergraduate guidance (B.Tech. main project, BTP, completed) –selected only

1. Pratham Singh, Jay Surya, Thenlay Norboo, 2023 (guide). Development of stubble bricks

2. Tushar Sharma, Atinderpal Singh, Jatin Sharma, 2023 (co-guide: Dr. Neeraj Goel). Design of a fruit sorter

3. Prince Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Meena, 2022(guide). Automation in vertical farming

4. Hritik Chouhan, Aavesh Saini, Anshuman Pandey, Chetan Kumar, 2022(guide). Website development for agriculture products.

5. Abhishek Ashish and Divyanshu Garg, 2022 (guide). Design for Agriculture 4.0: Paradigm, Analysis and selection of techniques for India

6. Aman Goyal and Aman Saraf, 2022 (guide). Automation in Green Roof

7. Gollapalli Umesh Siddhardha, Hari Alekh Panjwani and Pachipala Hemanth, 2022 (guide). Designing Heat Sink

8. Rohan, Prashik Nitnaware, Rahul Meena, 2022 (co-supervisor: Dr. Samir Chandra Roy). Repair and punch

9. Chetan Kumar, Aavesh Saini, Anshuman Pandey, Hritik Chouhan (guide), 2021. Website Development For Agriculture Products

10. Sanjay Kumar Meena, Prince Kumar, 2021 (guide). Automation in vertical farming

11. Sonu, 2020 (guide). Development of a Multiphonics system.

12. Asish Dhingan, P Mukesh, Ravi Mohan Meena, and Alok Mishra, 2015 (guide). Expert review web site.

13. Navneet Singh, Naveen Kumar, Honey Singla, and Naman Chhabra, 2015 (guide). Real estate website development.

14. Siddharth L., 2015 (guide). Prediction of the effect of design changes on company’s performance.

15. Javed Khan and Nishant Kumar, 2014 (co-guide: Prof. Harpreet Singh). Seed oil extractor.

16. Ajay Kumar Verma and Pareep Singhroha, 2013 (co-guide: Prof. Harpreet Singh). Handy machine to extract oil from mustard seeds.

17. Ankush Kumar and Lal Singh, 2013 (co-guide: Prof. Navin Kumar). Development of particle board using Rice/Wheat Straw.

18. Parteek Singla, Prashant Yadav, Praveen Kumar Sah, and Raj Narayan Saha, 2012 (co-guide: Dr. Anshu Dhar Jayal). Development of software tool for sustainability evaluation in product design.

19. Raj Narayan Saha and Prashant Yadav, 2012 (co-guide: Dr. Anshu Dhar Jayal). Regenerative braking system for human-powered vehicles.

Others

Post-doctoral (completed)

1. Rachit Kumar Sharma (co-guide: Prof. Harpreet Singh). Supply chain management.

Entrepreneur in residence (ER)

1. Mentoring Arshdeep Tanghi, through Awadh (guide) (current)