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ABOUT MECHATRONICS GROUP
The first interdisciplinary Master program in the department was started in Mechatronics
Engineering in the year of 2008 with annual intake of 27. The program emphasizes on fundamental
principles of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering required in the field of
Mechatronics Engineering for various applications. Students are also encouraged to do their projects
in industries, wherever there are chances of exposure to various avenues in Mechatronics
Engineering. The program has traversed the path of knowledge dissemination and generation as
well as delivering the well qualified manufacturing engineering post graduates to the Nation.
PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Create ability in students to design, develop product and applications in the field of
automation and mechatronics and be able to use engineering tools that will enhance their
productivity.
Inculcate the knowledge of basic engineering sciences and fundamentals of mechanical,
electrical, and computer systems.
Prepare students to be effective engineers with good analytical and problem solving skill to
innovate, research and develop in multidisciplinary environment.
Aid students to acquire professional ethics and oral, written, graphical communication skills.
Create awareness of societal and the environmental implications and make them suitable for
engineering career in industrial environs as well as for pursuing higher academics.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
a. Apply knowledge of math, science, and mechatronic engineering disciplines to solve real
life industrial problems.
b. Build prototype, test analyze and interpret the results.
c. Design mechatronic systems, process or product
d. Independently analyse complex problems with their course background and dissertation
work carried out during program.
e. Develop knowledge of computer based mechatronics engineering tools for modeling
simulation and optimization.
f. Have competency in applying mechatronic solutions to satisfy social, economic need at
global level.
g. Implement mechatronic system/process which is environment friendly with appropriate
consideration for public health and safety.
h. Understand professional and ethical responsibilities, towards society and the environment.
i. Work as member of multi-disciplinary team.
j. Communicate technical matters through visual, verbal and written modes.
k. Recognize the importance of continued learning due to constantly evolving technology and
develop entrepreneurial skills.
l. Exhibit effective project management skills to conceive and develop project plan.
FACULTY MEMBERS (MECHATRONICS ENGG.)
K.K. Appukuttan, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor
Research Interests: Instrumentation
and Control engineering, MEMS,
CAD/CAM, Robotics, Metrology,
Mechatronics
Mobile:+919425609059
Mail-id: [email protected]
S.M. Kulkarni, Ph.D. (IISc Bangalore)
Professor
Research Interests: Mechanisms and
Machine Design CAD, Composite
Materials, Product Development and
MEMS
Mobile: +919449086656
Mail-id:[email protected]
K.V. Gangadharan, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Professor
Research Interests: Vibration and
Control Dynamics, FEM, Condition
Monitoring, Experimental Methods in
Vibration
Mobile: +919448478752
Mail-id: [email protected]
Vijay H. Desai, Ph.D. (NITK Surathkal)
Professor
Research Interests: Composite
Materials, Functionally Graded
Materials, Machining, Sensors and
Actuators, Manufacturing Processes
Mobile: +919449332960
Mail-id: [email protected]
Srikantha S. Rao, Ph.D. (NITK
Surathkal)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Artificial
Intelligence in Manufacturing
Mobile: +919448302579
Mail-id: [email protected]
Mervin A. Herbert, Ph.D. (IIT
Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Friction Stir
Welding, Semi solid processing of
composites, applications of Artificial
Neural Network
Mobile: +919481213227
Mail-id: [email protected]
P. Navin Karanth, Ph.D. (NITK
Surathkal)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: CAD, CAM, CAE,
Mechatronics, Hydraulics and
Pneumatics
Mobile: + 919449085052
Mail-id: [email protected],
K.R. Guruprasad, Ph.D. (IISc
Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Robotics, Multi-
agent (robot) systems, Voronoi
partition, Physics of Musical
instruments
Mobile: +919449378018
Mail-id: [email protected]
Hemantha Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Dynamics and
Vibrations, Vehicle Dynamics,
Condition monitoring, Finite Element
Method and Product Design
Mobile: +918970375442
Mail-id: [email protected],
Somasekhara Rao Todeti, Ph.D. (IISc -
Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Design
Automation, Kinematics of
Machinery, Creativity, Sustainability.
Mobile:+919632330549,+919686089736
Mail-id: [email protected]
CURRENT RESEARCH AREA
Smart Materials, Piezoelectric and Magneto Rheological Device
MEMS, Nano Materials and Precision Engineering
Vehicle Dynamics, Condition Monitoring, Fracture Mechanics
Robotics
Design Automation
Completed R&D Projects
1. Magneto Rheological Fluid, Funding Agency: - MHRD, Investigators: K.V. Gangadharan,
Ravikiran Kadoli and Vijay H. Desai.
1. Active Vibration Control of Flexible Structures using Magnetostrictive Materials, Funding
Agency: - MHRD, Investigators: K. V. Gangadharan, Ravikiran Kadoli and Vijay H.
Desai.
2. FIST program on setting up of ‘Composites Laboratory’, Funding Agency: DST,
Investigators: - S.M.Kulkarni and Vijay H. Desai
3. Development of Dynamics Laboratory, Funding Agency: MHRD, Coordinator: K.K.
Appukuttan and K. V. Gangadharan.
4. Fabric bag filter, Funding Agency: - Thermax, Pune, Investigators: K.V. Gangadharan,
Ravikiran Kadoli and Vijay H. Desai.
Ongoing R&D Projects
Sl.
No.
(Principal Investigator/
Coordinator Project Title
Grant
(INR)
Lakhs
Funding
Agency
1 K. V. Gangadharan, Panduranga Vittal,
Vidhya Shetty, Pruthviraj
Virtual Laboratory
450 NMEICT,
MHRD
2 K. V. Gangadharan, Ravikiran Kadoli,
Pruthviraj
Remote triggered
Laboratory
100 NMEICT,
MHRD
3 K. V. Gangadharan Centre for System
Design
500 NI and
MHRD/NITK
4. Navin Karanth, Vijay Desai Development of
Automation
laboratory
250 FIST-DST
5. Satyabodh
Kulkarni
Design Innovation
Centre
85.0 MHRD
Major Facilities Major Laboratories
FDM based Rapid Prototyping Machine
Microprocessor kits, PLC and Robotics kits
Software: AUTOCAD, ANSYS, ADAMS,
DEFORM, EES, NIST-REFPROP,
SIMPACK, NI Data Acquisition systems
Kistler Cutting Tool Dynamometer (online
spectrum analysis)
Virtual Instrumentation
Mechatronics laboratory
Micro-systems laboratory
Bosch Automotive electronics
laboratory
Bosch Power tools laboratory
Consultancy Potential
Vibration Analysis of machineries and equipment’s
Condition monitoring and Diagnostics
Robotics
Virtual Instrumentation
MOUs Partners
1. National Instruments India (NI)
2. Volvo India, Bangalore (Academic Preferred Partner) NITK is the only partner in India
and 9th partner globally
3. Moog India Technology Centre Bangalore (MITC)
4. ProSIM R&D Ltd Bangalore
5. Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T Construction), India
6. AB Volvo Group Sweden
7. Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited (RBEI), Bangalore
8. Mercedes-Benz Research and Development Indian Private Limited (MBRDI), Bangalore
9. Institut National DE LA Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
10. Council of science and industrial research: Center for glass and ceramics research institute
(CSIR-CGCRI), Kolkata
11. Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai
12. National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore
13. Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore
14. Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI), Bangalore
Selected Publications (2015-16)
Sl.
No.
Author(s)
Title
Journal
(Volume ,Year, Pages)
1. Shivaprasad C.G, Kiran Aithal,
Narendranath S, Vijay Desai,
P.G. Mukunda
Effects of 4.5% Copper
addition and Melt
Treatment on
Microstructure and Wear
Properties of Al-7 Si Alloy
Applied Mechanics and
Materials , 766-767, 2015,
410-415
2. Madhusudana C. K., Budati S.,
Gangadhar N., Hemantha
Kumar, Narendranath S
Fault diagnosis studies of
face milling cutter using
machine learning
approach
Journal of Low Frequency
Noise, Vibration and
Active Control, 35, 2015,
128-138
3. Madhusudana C. K.,
Gangadhar N., Hemantha
Kumar and Narendranath S
Use of Discrete Wavelet
Features and Support
Vector Machine for Fault
Diagnosis of Face Milling
Tool
Structural Durability and
Health Monitoring.
(Accepted) 2015
4. N. Gangadhar, KiranVernekar,
Hemantha Kumar, S.
Narendranath
Fault Diagnosis of Single
Point Cutting Tool
through Discrete Wavelet
Features of Vibration
Signals using Decision
Tree Technique and
Multilayer Perceptron
Journal of Vibration
Engineering and
Technologies, 5, 2017
5. S. C. Kattimani and M. C. Ray Control of Geometrically
nonlinear vibrations of
functionally graded
magneto-electro-elastic
plates
International Journal of
Mechanical Sciences, 99,
2015, 154-167
