Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Achievements

• Dr Sonia S Raj was awarded DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY under the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from Noorul Islam University in Natural Fiber Composite valid from May 15th 2023.
• Dr Amjith L R was awarded DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY under the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from Noorul Islam University Renewable Energy valid from October21st 2023

• Dr. Vishnu B R submitted a project proposal.

  Scheme : State University Research Excellence (SERB SURE)

  Research Area: Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering & Robotics 

  Total Cost: 32,93,750/-

  PAPER PUBLICATIONS
• C. R. Berlin Selva Rex-“Power performance and emissions analysis of outboard diesel engines by use of waste cooking oil biodiesel “– Material Today Proceedings – September 2023 

• Vishnu B. R.-“Effect of activated fluxes on the BZC and Cr (VI) concentration in stellite hardfacing operation “Material today communications-November 2023 . 

• Vishnu B. R.-“Concurrent reduction of the fume and Cr (VI) concentrations of inhalable and respirable particle using a new covered stainless steel SMAW electrode” – Journal of environmental chemical engineering- November 2023 

• Dr Amjith L R -“Computational and comparative analysis for aerodynamic blade and spiral blade optimization for enhanced productivity in a 5MW HAWT’” International conference on emerging trends in technology and science, organized by department of Fire technology and safety engineering & Automobile engineering of Noorul Islam Centre for higher education , Kumaracoil, Kanya Kumari District, Tamil Nadu. 

• Dr Sonia S Raj -“Characterization of physical and mechanical properties of agro waste fiber as reinforcement in polymer composites in comparison with few natural composites” -International conference on emerging trends in technology and science, organized by department of Fire technology and safety engineering & Automobile engineering of Noorul Islam Centre for higher education , Kumaracoil, Kanya Kumari District, Tamil Nadu –

• Dr Manu Mohan received his Doctorate in Nanotechnology from NIT Calicut
• Manu Mohan published a paper in Applied Thermal Engineering, Elsevier; “Convective heat estimation of dilute metal oxide nanofluids in VUV surface tuned minichannel using Mach-Zehnder interferometry”

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117259

• Arun J. – Resource person on “Sustainable Engineering” at College of Engineering, Nagercoil - March 2022
• Ullas Innocent Raj – – Resource person on “Sustainable development and training in paper bag making ” at University College of Engineering, Nagercoil.- March 2022
• Vishnu BR – resource Person for FDP on “Green Welding” at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maharaja’s Technological Institute, Thrissur – March 2022
• Ullas Innocent Raj – – Resource person on “Effective plastic waste management ” at Royal College of Engineering, Thrissur.- April 2022.
• Sonia S Raj, J. Edwin Raja Dhas, Harish Kumar presented a paper titled "Optimization and Analysis of abrasive wear of Agro waste reinforced composites by RSM design matrix " during the International Conference on Energy and Materials Technologies (ICEMT-2021) Organized by the department of Mechanical Engineering, SRI SIVASUBRAMANIYA NADAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (SSNCE) during Aug 20-21, 2021. (Best paper Award)

Prof. Manu Mohan was the Resource Person for FDP on “Advances in Heat Transfer and its Applications” at Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Perumon from 15.03.2021 – 20.03.2021.

Prof. Manu Mohan was the resource Person for FDP on “Advances in Nanotechnology” sponsored by TEQIP – II at Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Perumon from March 15 – 20, 2021

Prof. Arun J. was the Resource person on “Creative Engineering Design” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Marian Engineering College on 07.11.2020

A text book on “Engineering Mechanics” written by Asst. Prof. Rajaneesh R. Chandran was launched.

Godwin Glivin was awarded Ph.D on Biogas generation with non-uniform feeding of biodigesters: A365 day investigation cum simulation study from Anna University, Chennai on December 2018.

FDP attended

Sandeep E. attended, “Theory and Analysis of Compressible Turbulence”, Dept. of Aerospace Engg, IIT Madras, 22.03.2021 to 27.03.2021

Sandeep E., attended “Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer for Aerospace Applications”, TKM College of Engg, Kollam, 01.09.2020 to 06.09.2020

Arun J., attended “ Polynomials associated with Graphs”, Dakshina Mara Nadar Sangam College, Tamil Nadu, 15.06.2020.

Sonia S. Raj, attended “Recent Advances In Tribology And Surface Engineering, Series 4 of 4 – Surface Characterization and Treatments in Tribology”, Department of Mechanical Engineering of Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, 23.11.2020 – 28.11.2020

Sandeep E., attended “Tools for Effective online teaching”, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, 13.08.2020 to 14.08.2020

Sonia S. Raj, attended  “Recent Developments of Bipolymer and Sustainable Composites for Engineering Applications”, Sree Buddha College of Engineering, 15.03.2021 – 19.03.2021

Sandeep E., attended “Introduction To CNC Programming: Cut Viewer Turn & Cut Viewer Mill”, AWH Engineering College, Kozhikode, 10.08.2020 to 14.08.2020

Sandeep E., attended “The Art of Technical Writing”, Jyothi Engineering College, Thrissur, 07.08.2020 to 08.08.2020

Sonia S. Raj, attended “Emerging Green Technologies for Mechanical Engineers” Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Technology, GIET University, Gunupur, 03.08.2020 – 08.08.2020

Ullas Innocent Raj attended “Emerging Green Technologies for Mechanical Engineers” Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Technology, GIET University, Gunupur, 03.08.2020 – 08.08.2020

Sonia S. Raj, attended “Planning & Preparing Research Proposals for Research seed money”, Research and Industry Institute Interaction, Civil Engineering Department, Marian Engineering College, 05.01.2021

Dr. Godwin Glivin attended GIAN course on "Advances in Combustion Modeling" during 04th to 09th March 2019 at National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India.

Arun J attended FDP on Design of Experiments SRM Institute of Science and technology, Kattankulathoor, Chennai from 07/02/2019 to 08/02/2019.

Arun J attended FDP on Optimization Techniques in Engineering Applications, Kattankulathoor, TKM college of Engineering, Kollam from 31/12/2018 to 05/01/2019.

Madhavan R attended FDP on Sustainable rural habitat – Returning to our roots, IIScBanglorefrom 12/01/2019 to 13/01/2019.

Madhavan R attended FDP Composite Materials and Structures: Processing and Fabrication, Analysis and Design, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysurufrom 31/12/2018 to 11/01/2019.

Arun Kumar V attended FDP on Nano fluidics: Theory, computation and Applications, IIT Madras from 28/01/2019 to 02/02/2019.

Sonia S Raj attended FDP on Optimization Techniques in Engineering Applications, TKM college of Engineering, Kollam from 31/12/2018 to 05/01/2019.

Sandeep E attended FDP on Research: From Scratch to Success, TKM college of Engineering, Kollam from 07/01/2019 to 11/01/2019.

Maneesh T attended FDP on Recent advances in manufacturing, St. Joseph’s college of Engineering and technology, Palai from 07/01/2019 to 11/01/2019

Rahul R S attended FDP on Design and Engineering, Sarabhai Institute of Science and technology vellanad from 03/12/2018 to 07/12/2018.

Abhiroop V M attended FDP Optimization Techniques in Engineering Applications, TKM college of Engineering, Kollam from 31/12/2018 to 05/01/2019.

Dr. Godwin Glivin attended FDP on Design of experiments, K Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Samayapuram, Trichy from 20/12/2018 to 22/12/2018.

Workshop attended

Dr. Godwin Glivin participated in the one day national level workshop on "Processing of Composite Materials" (PCM 19) held on 16th February 2019 at K. Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India

Dr. Berlin Selva Rex C.R. attended a STTP on Recent Trends in Tribology and Surface Characterization at College of Engineering Trivandrum from 16th to 20th April 2018.

Faculty Publications

Godwin Glivin & Joseph Sekhar, S 2019, ‘Development and Use of an Economic Evaluation Assess Establishment of Centralized Biogas Plants in Educational Institutions’, Bio Energy Research - Springer, vol. x, pp. x-x. ISSN: 1939-1234. (1st Review competed).

Godwin Glivin & Joseph Sekhar, S 2019, ‘Simulation of Anaerobic Digesters for the Non-Uniform Loading of Biowaste Generated from an Educational Institution’, Latin American Applied Research, vol. x, pp. x-x. ISSN: 0327-0793. (1st Review competed).

Godwin Glivin & V Sreeja, 2019, ‘Development of Hydrogen Peroxide Based Propellant Systems for Increasing Energy Efficiency’, International conference on Advances in Sustainability of Materials and Environment (ICASME’19).

L. Prince Jeya Lal, R. Chitra & Godwin Glivin, 2019, ‘Human Knee Modelling Using 3d Slicer and Meshlab’, National Conference on Innovative Computing Science & Engineering (NCICSE 2019).

Krishnan Unni M, Gokul R Nair, Abin M, Jeffin John Jeffry & Godwin Glivin, 2019, ‘Efficiency Enhancement of Rotary Drum Filter’ National Conference on Advances in Energy Efficient Technologies (NCAEET’19), ISBN: 978-81-940546-1-0.

T.M.Chenthil Jegan, Chitra R. & Godwin Glivin, 2019, ‘Review On Eye Detection System’ National Conference on Advances in Energy Efficient Technologies (NCAEET’19), ISBN: 978-81-940546-1-0.

Sreeja V & Godwin Glivin, 2019, ‘Assessment on the Characteristics of River Kodayar With Reference To Nitrate, Phosphate and Sulphate’ National Conference on Advances in Energy Efficient Technologies (NCAEET’19), ISBN: 978-81-940546-1-0.

Prof. Arun J and Prof Sandeep E registered for PhD at APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in 2018

V. Arun Kumar ‘Evaporation of liquid droplet in the present of a nanoparticle’ Journal of heat transfer (ASME) May 2018, Vol 140

Abhiroop.V.M, R.I.Vivek ,K.E.RebyRoy."Numerical investigations on the pressure drop characteristics along a compact regenerator", Indian Journal of Cryogenics Vol.43,pp 114-118 (2018)

Abhiroop.V.M, R.I.Vivek ,K.E.Reby Roy. “Numerical investigations on chill down along packed spherical bed regenerator for sustainable utilization of energy”. 2nd International conference on Sustainable Globalization Kochi, (10th -12th January 2019)

Sonia S Raj , P. Pradeep , J.Edwin Raja Dhas "Parameter Optimization of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite by RSM Design Matrix" Int. J. of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology.April 2018

Sonia S Raj, P. Pradeep "Enhancing the Flexural Properties of Concrete using waste PET bottle Firers for the Reinforcement" , International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering(IJETAE) , Volume 8, Special Issue 4(2), April 2018

C R. Berlin Selva Rex ‘A comprehensive combustion kinetics modelling study of Iso-octane and air mixture’ International journal of IC engines and Gas turbines, Vol.4: Issue 2 March 2019

Faculty Paper presentation

Mrs. Sonia S Raj Presented a paper titled “Optimization of Fabrication parameters on Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite By ANN Design” in the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Power and Advanced computing Technologies in Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore on 22nd March 2019.

Mrs. Sonia S Raj Presented a paper titled “Characterization of Bio metrical, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Areca Fibers” in the International Conference on Design, Materials, cryogenics and constructions in Vel-Tech Institution on 28th March 2019.

Dr. Godwin Glivin presented a paper on "Development of Hydrogen Peroxide Based Propellant Systems" for Increasing Energy Efficiency in the International conference on Advances in Sustainability of Materials and Environment (ICASME’19) in St Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering during 4th April 2019.

Dr. Godwin Glivin presented a paper on "Human Knee Modelling Using 3d Slicer and Meshlab" in the National Conference on Innovative Computing Science & Engineering (NCICSE 2019) at Noorul Islam University held on 2nd April 2019.