Durwesh Jhodkar Editor

Durwesh Jhodkar is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Department at Wainganga College of Engineering in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Mechanical Engineering Discipline at PDPM IIITDM, Jabalpur, India. His doctoral research likely contributed to the field of machining tool technology. Prior to his Ph.D., Durwesh Jhodkar earned a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from SGSITS, Indore, India, in the year 2010. This background suggests a strong foundation in both the technical and managerial aspects of industrial engineering. He has a notable academic background with a decade of teaching experience. Additionally, he has post-doctoral experience from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Post-doctoral research is typically undertaken after obtaining a Ph.D., allowing researchers to further specialize in a particular area or explore new avenues of research. Durwesh Jhodkar has made significant contributions to the field, evident from his research articles. His publications cover a range of topics, including 3D printing, Ergonomics Risk Assessment, Bio-implant Machining Processes, Post-treatment Analysis, and cutting tool tribology.

Parnika Shrivastava is currently working as an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (Punjab). She has earned Doctorate and M.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from PDPM, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur, Jabalpur, in 2019. She has completed B.Tech. degree (Honors) from Mechanical Engineering Discipline of Engineering College Bikaner (E.C.B), Bikaner, Rajasthan. Her research areas of interest are advanced forming operations, hybrid manufacturing, fracture mechanics, rapid product development technologies, and topology optimization. She has been granted a patent on the “Process of analyzing the effect of preheated microstructure vis-à-vis parameters on the orange peel in incremental sheet forming of AA1050 sheets”. She has authored various research articles in International Journals of repute along with several conference publications and book chapters. She has been recently granted a Core Research Grant funding for undertaking the project “Design and development of an Electrically Assisted Hybrid Double Sided Incremental Forming machine for efficient production of customized biomedical implants with improved surface finish and geometrical accuracy”. She is also the recipient of two national-level awards including the Best Teacher Award 2022 conferred by the Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi.

Puneet Tandon, a fellow of IACSIT, is a joint Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Design at PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, India. His primary research interests are Intelligent and Innovative Product Design, Computer Aided Design, Nature Inspired Design, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Microfabrication. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra. He received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He is presently Head, Discipline of Design. He has authored more than 110 papers in referred journals and international conferences. He has been to author to one text book titled “Cutting Tool Geometry: 3D Perspective” and a few conference proceedings. Besides, another text book written along with his Japanese collaborators is under production. He was also organizer of International Conference on Innovations in Design and Manufacturing (InnDeM) 2012 and Design Workshop (DeW) 2010. He is Principal Investigator to a joint Indo-Japan Project, and to numerous projects sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, etc. He is a member of the International Programme Committee of CAD Conferences, and on advisory committees of various international conferences. He is a co-editor of one International Journal on Manufacturing and has been reviewer to several international journals.