V.N. Achutha Naikan
Date of Birth :
30-04-1965
Present Designation
: Professor
Department
: Reliability Engineering (currently Head) also Joint
faculty of Department of Industrial Engg. & Mgmt
Present
Employer :
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, Pin–721302
West Bengal,
India.
E-mail
:
naikan@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
Phone : (03222) – 282290,
283994, 283995(R), 9434722566 (Mob)
Fax : (03222) – 282290
Residential
Address :
C1-160, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, West
Bengal, India. Pin 721 302
Educational Qualifications
PhD :
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1996
MTech
: Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, 1990, First class (8.98 CGPA)
BTech
: University of
Kerala, Trivandurm, 1988, First class, Second Rank (83.66%)
Pre-Degree :
University of Kerala, Trivandurm, 1982, First class (65.78%)
SSLC
: Board of Public
Examinations, Kerala State, 1980, First class (79.16%)
Specialization
PhD :
Reliability Engineering (1991-1994)
MTech
: Reliability
Engineering (1988-1990)
BTech
: Mechanical
Engineering (1984-1988)
Title of Ph.D.
Thesis :
Industrial Productivity Improvement through Reliability and
Condition Monitoring
Techniques
Subjects Interested:
|
Quality and
Reliability Engineering
Statistical
Methods in Reliability |
System Simulation
Operations Research |
|
Product Design
and Development |
Life Testing and
Estimation |
Industrial Summer
Training
About one month training
in QETCOS Limited, Quilon – a lathe manufacturing unit
Working Experience:
1. M/S
Union Carbide India Limited, Calcutta:
Engineer, 1 year, (1990)
2. Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad:
Academic Associate in Production and Quantitative Methods, 6
months(1994)
3. Indian
Space Research Organization, Ahemedabad
Engineer “SC”, 1 year 3 months, (1994 – 1996)
4. Indian
Institute of Technology, Kharagpur:
Lecturer(1996 -1998),
Assistant Professor (1998 - 2004), Associate Professor (2004-2010) and
Professor (2010 – till date) in the Reliability Engineering Center and
joint faculty of Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
5. The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
: PDF in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering
Management, 1 year (2001)
Publications
Books:
·
Reliability Engineering
and Life Testing (Prentice Hall, 2009)
·
A Chapter on “Statistical
Process Control” in the Handbook on Performability Engineering”
(Springer, UK, 2008)
Referred International
Journals :
31
Conferences :
35
Short Term Courses
Organized : 12
PhD Theses
Supervised : 04
MTech Thesis
Supervised : 60
BTech Thesis
Supervised : 12
No of Sponsored
Projects done : 12
Membership of
Professional society: IEEE,
Institution of Engineers, Society for Reliability and Safety, System
Society of India
Other Academic
and Corporate Activities :
Technical chair of international conference (3 times);
Co-Chairman of the Technical symposium on “OPTIMA 2006”;
Co-Technical Chair of 2nd International Conference on
Reliability, Safety and Hazard; Assistant Warden of Hostel, Current Head
of the centre, Reviewer for several international journals.
Awards and Recognition
-
Second Rank of
University of Kerala (BTech)
-
I have won the first
prize in the energy conservation awareness competition held by the
Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001)
-
I was awarded
National Merit Scholarship, by the Government of India, throughout
my studies
-
GATE Scholarship for
PG studies
-
Institute Scholarship
for Research programme of IIT Kharagpur
When I was
working with Union carbide (I) Limited, Calcutta, I had implemented a
temperature monitoring based fault diagnosis technique on Extruders.
This had reduced the down time of extruders considerably and the top
management had appreciated the work, published in the news letter, and
decided to implement at other locations of the company.
