MANOJ KUMAR Lecturer

MANOJ KUMAR Lecturer

Institute of Food Technology

BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY

Residential Address:

417/2, CP Mission Compound, Jhansi

Phone #: 0517- 2450551

Date of Birth: August 15, 1970

E-mail: manoj_pantnagar@yahoo.com

Qualification / Education

July 1997 to November 1999

Doctorate in Food Technology:( Incomplete degree from Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, G.B.Pant University of Agriculture &Technology, Pantnagar,Uttranchal).

OGPA: 4.000/5.000

Completed all the requirements (including 3 semesters of course studies) except Thesis Research.

July 1993 to October 1996

Master's in Food Technology: Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar. OGPA: 4.000/5.000

JULY 1989 to MAY 1993

Bachelor's in Agriculture & Animal Husbandry: From College of Agriculture, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar. OGPA: 3.333/5.000

Schooling

UP Board: Pantnagar Intermediate College, Pantnagar

Working Experience

November, 1999 ONWARDS

Lecturer

Institute of Food Technology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi

SEPTEMBER 1995 TO DECEMBER 1995

Executive Trainee (Quality Assurance)

Dalmia Industries Ltd. Bharatpur, Rajasthan

Job Description: Receiving, weighing, sampling, and quality evaluation of milk and final products of SAPAN brand.

MAY 1996 TO AUGUST 1996

Production Supervisor

Parle Biscuits Limited. Bahadurgarh, Haryana

Job Description: Execution of production planning concerned with ingredient mixing, baking and packaging of PARLE Biscuits.

Research Experience

November 1994 to july 1995

Appointed as part-time Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Food Science & Technology, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar under the project "Manufacture of Acidophilus yoghurt'.

July 1993 to October 1996

During Master's Degree Programme worked on Thesis Research entitled "Studies on associative growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus-I and Lactobacillus casei- RTS to develop yoghurt like product"

Work was concerned with the optimization of growth affecting parameters for mentioned Lactic strains, and to determine Antagonistic and Hypocholesterolemic properties of these strains.

The work was carried out under the effective guidance of Dr. B.K. Mital and Dr. Y.K. Jha, Professor, FST, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar. Thesis Research was submitted to the University in partial fulfillment of the Master's Degree in Food Technology.

November, 1999 ONWARDS

In current profession of teaching, each year guiding about 10 M. Sc. students for their THESIS RESEARCH work at IFT with available resources. Students are also co-guided for their work at other Institutions of the country. Each Student is essentially required to submit this Thesis Research to the University in partial fulfillment of the Master's Degree in Food Science and Technology.

Teaching Experience

≈5 Years (1999- till now)

Courses teaching at IFT

DAIRY SCIENCE

MILK AND MILK PROCESSING

MILK PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT

BEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY

Languages Known

Hindi and English

Specialization

Milk and milk fermentation

Areas of Interest

Milk/Soymilk Fermentation and Probiotics, Malting and Brewing

Academic / Extra Curricular Achievements

Qualified ICAR National Eligibility Test for Lecturer ship in Food Science and Technology, Year 2001.

Developing Institutional Web on behalf of the Institute of Food Technology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi. URL: http://www.geocities.com/ift_bu/

Developing data base of the scientific literature on milk and milk products at http://www.geocities.com/ift_bu/milk_index

Active contribution in organizing two National seminar at IFT, BU

Year 2001 : Emerging trend in Food Science and Technology: Technology and Value addition

Year 2003: TROIKA-2003

Participated in U.P. Inter-Varsity Wrestling Championship 1992-93, held at Varanasi.

Participated in 34th Intra-State School Swimming Championship 1988, held at Lucknow.

Interests

swimming, computers, music, cooking