ADMINISTRATION DUTY/INITIATIVES

1. Practice school faculty at Royal Enfield (Chennai), My Web Partner (Jalalabad), CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory (Chennai) and Diya Robotics (Chennai) in June-July 2024

2. Organizing committee member of Internation Conference                                                      https://pm-idics-2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1

3. Organizing committee member of National level workshop on Additive Manufacturing (Click here to view the Linkedin post)

4. Member of the CORE TEAM for Young Entrepreneurs' Boot Camp (YEB) at BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus. https://www.bits-yeb.com/

5. Conducted Viva for Work Integrated Learning Programme of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani every semester.

6. A notable contribution to the Work Integrated Learning Programme of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani by teaching the course on Finite Element Methods for a total duration of three semesters and another course on Statistical Quality Control throughout one semester.

7. Member of the Question paper setting team for Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test (BITSAT) during Semester II 2021-22.

8. Guided B.E. students of BITS PILANI K. K. Birla Goa campus to develop in-house Digital Image Correlation software (https://github.com/iniyanakila/BITS-DIC).

9. Delivered a webinar on August 29, 2020 to the faculty members of BITS PILANI K. K. Birla Goa campus during the COVID pandemic on the usage of parametric quizzes in Moodle.

10. Organized a stall demonstrating Real-time 3D scanning, Digital Image Correlation setup and 3D printing applications in Open House 2021-22 and Open House 2022-23.

11. Updated the Website of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whenever updates were to be made as per the instructions of HoD.

12. Performed all duties assigned to me by the HoD.

13. Represented BITS Pilani Goa campus in the Biotech Startup Expo-2022

RESEARCH GUIDANCE

1. Ongoing guidance to two full-time PhD students and one part-time PhD student.

2. Completed guiding two Special Projects, eight Study Projects, nine Design Projects, and twelve Laboratory Projects

3. Completed guiding two first degree theses and one higher degree thesis.

OTHER NOTEWORTHY RESEARCH OUTCOME

1. Rajesh Kumar, N.I. Thiruselvam, Kiran Mali, Poster presented in the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials & Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT) 2023, titled “Design and development of functionally graded Double Rounded V Hierarchical (DRVH) auxetic lattice structure – A Finite Element study”.

2. S. N. Grama, N. Iniyan Thiruselvam, Sankara J. Subramanian, Non-Uniqueness in Anand Model Parameters Estimated for SnCu Solder Using Digital Image Correlation and Virtual Fields Method, 2020, Social Science Research Network (SSRN). DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3675735