Educational Qualifications

 

 

 DEGREE 

BOARD/INSTITUTION/ UNIVERSITY

YEAR

SPECIALIZATION

School

S. S. C.

I.C.S.E.,

Delhi, India

1985 - 1987

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H. S. S. C.

M.P. Board,

Bhopal (MP), India

1987 - 1989

Mathematics, Science

University

B. E.

Government Engineering College

Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya

Jabalpur (MP), India

1989 - 1993

Mechanical Engineering

Between 1994 to 1998 employed as a marine engineer (see employment record)

M. Tech.

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Kanpur (UP), India

1998 - 2000

Thermo-fluid Science

Ph. D.

Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme (IKE),

Universität Stuttgart,

Stuttgart, Germany

2000 - 2004

Thermal management of electronics/ Two-phase passive systems/ Heat pipes/ Pulsating heat pipes

Academic achievements

bullet Received the George Grover Young Scientist Medal from International Heat Pipe Committee, Florianópolis, Brazil, April 26, 2007
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Young Scientist Award by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, 2005.
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Doctoral thesis graded as “Excellent” with grade 4/4 at University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2004.
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First position in M. Tech. Program (batch of Thermo-fluid Sciences), IIT Kanpur, India with CPI = 9.7/10, 2000.
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Five university gold medals for various achievements including first position in the under-graduate Mechanical Engineering program of Government Engineering College, Rani Durgavati Vishvavidyalaya, Jabalpur (MP) India.
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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering  score of 95.84 percentile, 1998.
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National merit scholarship for the entire undergraduate education in India (1989-1993).
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Lions Club award for best all-round intermediate level student, 1989.

 

B. E. project

Development of a microprocessor (8085) based thermo-mechanical control system

(under the guidance of Dr. R. C. Ghai, Government Engineering College, Jabalpur (MP), India)

 

M. Tech. thesis

Numerical Modeling of Packed Bed Type Catalytic Converter for

Small Two-Stroke Petrol Engines and its Experimental Validation

Sponsored project (MoU/IITK) by Indian Oil Corporation, Research Center, Faridabad, India.

(under the guidance of Dr. B. P. Pundir and Dr. V. Eswaran,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Kanpur (UP), India)

 

Ph. D. thesis

Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipes
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Sponsored project by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - National Research Foundation of Germany.

(under the guidance of Dr. Manfred Groll, University of Stuttgart, Germany)