Good day, Dr. Amit Kumar. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

OK Sir. Thank you Sir. Very good afternoon. I am Doctor Amit Kumar, currently working as a assistant Professor in Siddhiswar College of Engineering, Combatur.

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

Tuition affiliated to Anna Anniversary and I'm working at the last four years.

And about my qualification, I did my BTEC from Marathi University, Maharashtra in 2008 under Mechanical Engineering department and after that I have completed my Mtech from NIT Jamshedpur under the facilitation of Thermal and Fluid Engineering.

After that I have completed my doctorate degree from NIT Durgapur under the of thermal engineering and then the guidance of Doctor Apple lack and he has vast experience that filled off this IC engine and this solar rated system. And based on that I worked while I worked there as a DST project there. And based on that I have published number of papers approx 8 at the time of eight CI papers at the time.

With good number of conferences not in India and abroad also. After that I have also worked there for as a research project fellow for one year and after that I have joined here in the Isha College engineering and continuing till that.

Thank you, Sir.

Yeah, basically we're actually, uh, my, my PhD work basically deals with the solar system, the, the concept of re enabled energy and this solar air heater is only the what is that? It is well known that the thermal efficiency of solar, it is very low, white is low. Uh, it is well concept that when a fluorescence, the smooth surface, the boundary layer formation takes place and this boundary layer, uh, having 22 Jones that is. That is the What is that?

Thank you, Professor Amit. Let us move forward with a technical evaluation of your skills and expertise relevant to the role of Professor of Renewable Engineering. Can you explain the significance of renewable energy technology in addressing current global energy challenges?

Lamina joint or blind Jones, a very viscous sub layer as adjacent to plate creates some thermal resistance and this thermal resistance has restricted this heat transfer coefficient. And with this concept we are using some artificial roughness on that. Based on that the thermal resistance is going to decrease and the heat transfer and turbulence effect is going to be improved. Now this is the completely renewable resource of energy which I have already completed based on that.

For the research point of view in the next.

I what I gained from my this PhD work as experiment is I learn all the basics and advanced techniques and which is very fruitful of the research point of view. And these basic ideas I will use for my further process, further research and something and I can for the research point of view. I can explore more for more solar system using some LCT and infrared thermography image. OK Infrared is the thermal imaging camera which will directly give some what is that color?

Of a heated surface where the heat transfer is more. Where the heat transfer is. Based on that, we can use the infrared thermography approach and.

Focused on the hydrogen production and that is the very future futuristic demand for this hydrogen storage, hydrogen production hydrogen is alternative fuse in the in the future and the but the problem of this what is that hydrogen is the storage and that's why research is going on for that how to store the hydroduct. That's why my concept is I am focusing on the metal hydride. If you're storing this hydrogen gas in the metal, it becomes a metal and this this metal hydride we can use.

Apart from this. I'm mostly.

Those in the future for this as a as a in a fuel cell for the as alternative fuel in the coming future. That is the concept we can use in the as a renewal and resources on the something like that.

Thank you, Sir.

Thank you, Professor Amit. Now, focusing on your teaching experience, can you elaborate on your methodology when teaching both theory and laboratory courses in engineering? How do you ensure students understand complex concepts effectively?

That apart from this academic, uh, this, uh, curriculum, I need to basically focus on the, the clear understanding of this, uh, concept of the each process, which is lab and assessment. Uh, we need to use the basic case study problem, something like the K4 level of questions, something like that. And apart from this, I need to connect with the industrial problems industry, what the industry problem with the, the particular this according in the, in the academic curriculum.

And after that, apart from the, the basic thing is that we need to integrate research into the teaching is that it will integrate research into teaching the many things a student can understand by about the general selection, citing of the papers, OK, plagiarism and ethics problem, writing the funding proposals. If you're going through some lab work based on that lab work, we can write some funding proposal. We'll give some guideline how to write the funding funding. Proposal for that something.

Uh, different, different funding agencies there. So this is the thing we need to adapt if we are going through some of this academic curriculum, actually, that is the concept we can, uh, integrate.

Thank you, Sir.

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Uh, basically if you are dealing with the fluid flow, I know that we are generally the basic concept is the nursery number. You need to consider nursery number and realls number. If you reall number increases, nursery number is going to grow. And this is nothing number is simply says that how enhancement is going to flow because how enhancement is going to be attained because of the flow.

Thank you for sharing your insights. Let me now evaluate specific technical skills mentioned in your resume. Beginning with your background in fluid mechanics, can you explain the critical factors that influence heat transfer and fluid flow in artificially roughened ducts? How do these factors interplay to enhance thermal performance?

Based on that.

To this viscous sublayer. This viscous sublayer is one of the I think the very big problem when the flute flow over any surfaces. OK if any flute flow over any surface what will happen is westerns to the flow will be there. This is what level we need to break this risk of the layer. I need to how this breaking of this risk of celebrity possible by using.

This heat transfer enhancement we can clog with that what I what what I suggest with that what I have done my PhD level.

Some very MMM very small diameter of this what is the artificial roughness on that particular plate approx less than three MMM and this setup lever when flutes over what will happen the this reattachment and different different location is possible. If the reattachment in different different locations this what is a wake zone in that in between the consecutive reef this wake zone formation is going to be. Decreased and this what is the turbulence effect is going to be increased. If the turbulence effect is going to be increased, what will happen the heat?

Heat transfer on that, on the basis of that, but the nothing number and you know some of the basic concept we need to consider for this.

Transfer, uh, this coefficient is going to be increased and overall, uh, we can increase the.

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I can hear you, Professor Amit. Please continue when you're ready.

I was asking, Professor, if you could elaborate on how you guide students in their research. For example, how do you help them develop their ideas, manage their projects, or improve their academic writing?

Uh, these, uh, have many approach. We can guide what I said initially that, uh, we need to integrate, uh, this research into the teaching. We need to guide the student how to write the papers. Uh, in our institution is going on like that in the, from the second year, student are completely involved in writing the papers. At least we are writing the review paper based on that in the second, in the next, next semester, they are able to.

So based on that, we need to give some guideline, guideline about the some research methodology like that, OK, we need to guideline how the how to reduce the plagiarism and some ethics of writing and.

Uh write a good journal paper, uh, for the publication point of view and they are submitting in the conferences also.

And apart from this, suppose if you are continuing with some laboratory work, we can approach this some mini projects, something like that. This mini project also based on that what the how, what the output we are getting, what the result we are getting. Based on that we can club with some research and we can publish number of papers and it can be utilized for some funding proposal also.

We are guiding with the how to select some good journals and based on that like that, OK and.

Thank you.

Let’s now verify your expertise in student evaluation and assessment. Can you outline your approach to designing fair and effective evaluation methods for both theoretical and practical courses?

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I was asking if you could explain your approach to creating fair and effective evaluation methods for both theoretical and practical courses. How do you ensure that students are assessed comprehensively?

Uh, we need to actually guide regularly in the regular basis, uh, in the every weekend something, uh, some we need to go for some assessment with that assessment or some problems solving. Uh, what is that?

Something you need to give for that and based on that, yeah, I immediately approach like that the student will be guided in the proper way and after that? That that will give in the coming, coming.

Uh, days they will give the very fruitful results for that particular student. If we are going through that the this is the approach here, we can continue, Sir.

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your practical experience in industry projects or consultancy. Could you elaborate on any such experiences you have had and how they enhanced your expertise as an academic professional?

Actually, and right now actually, uh, we have done some, uh, I have the industry experience actually at that time, uh, I have done some, what is that, uh, uh, design and fabrication I have done, uh, based on that LPG gases that production you need to work there. And uh, there is a different, different design parameter that has been utilized for.

SAE, uh, this SAE format is there. They have a, uh, we have done some this on the basis. So that guideline we have the fabricated and making some design model in that period of time when I just sustain 15 years back what I entering when we have the industrial exchanged the best on that.

And now the basic concept nowadays IDT manufacturing is one of the thing we are going through that. So this additive manufacturing we need to I need to identify, we need to concentrate on that this for the, for the industrial purpose, for the manufacturing purpose. And that that is that is the that is the thing we can.

Use and as industrial point of view.

Uh, that is the thing. Thank you, Sir.

Uh, definitely. And the time of, uh, when I was doing my PST, the DST project has been handled. Actually, my, my guide has received some GST project and based on that, this is the complaint completed experimental work. I'm publishing a paper with this experimental activity, experimental results, uh, somewhat, very easy to get published. Based on that, we are searching a good journals because I have get the help of my senior also based on that, they have given some guideline how to.

Thank you for sharing, Professor Amit. Moving ahead, can you elaborate on your experience in publishing research papers in reputable journals? Specifically, what types of research topics have you focused on, and how do you ensure the quality and impact of your publications?

Select the good journal paper and see how his impact factor is high. OK.

Uh, where it should not be paid. And then, uh, we need to consider on the regular issue like that, no need to go for the period and something like that. Uh, we are selecting the suppose we have the solar solar, we have the research based on that. We have published the solar energy, one of the reputed general in SBS and based on that.

I have applied for that and we have published within, uh, I think the couple of months I have, uh, I published that, uh, that paper. So based on that collecting up journal paper also important part, we need to think, uh, keyword the editor is thinking what the reviewer is thinking, what the reviewer expectation is that when you are submitting any paper, uh, how much you are going to concentrate on writing your result and discussion part if the result and discussion part is very attract.

Very affecting the very, uh, means, uh, based on that, uh, something, your objective, it is, uh, up to that level, then we can, it is easy to get public and there's no such issue happens to me at the time of when we are selecting the journal paper and publishing the paper based on the solution. Uh, I think it's going on a very proper way and we need to concentrate like that and apart from this.

Uh, uh, my goal is to, uh, I need to think about to add some network with the collaborators not in Indian abroad. Also based on that, uh, we can do multiple work with this collaborators and with this collaboration and, uh, we can good, good, uh, research proposal like that, we can write a good result proposal for the future effects. What I'm saying.

Thank you.

Thank you, Professor Amit. We have now covered a broad spectrum of your expertise and experience. At this stage, I will evaluate based on what we've discussed so far.

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Could you share which foundational concept in renewable engineering you most enjoy teaching and why?

For this, for the renewable energy, it is well, not that it is the.

In August, evil in nature we can use multiple times OK based on that solar and energy what we are using. Based on that we can approach through some different, different research work like that OK, solar air heater is still many work is going on, but in what is that integrating with some different different concepts like LCT, liquid crystal thermography approach. This is also optical tool.

What is the full flow phenomena with the color response? Also infrared. Also the, you know, electromagnetic spectrum is there, there are 7 electromagnetic spectrum gamma rays. Uh, what is the ultra virus? Is this infrared? Uh, this many, many thing is there, the wind, infrared is invisible heat. OK, everybody, every object in the universe emits some kind of radiation based on that infrared thermography image. We are going to capture something. Uh, you know, like that what is the phenomena of heat transfer is going to happen?

Which are used for finding the.

Knocking this renewable and resources we can use in multiple, uh, area in the in automobile, in the medical industry, in medical, uh, system also like that. This is the thing, uh, we can approach like that for the.

But at the foundation is like that we have done some solar, solar energy work like that. Umm, but thing is that we need to, uh, integrate with multi multiple system, uh, and based on that, we can approach and we can do some good research in the future like.

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Please take your time to explain.

Yeah, uh, Sir, this Li liquid crystal thermography has already I have somewhere something I have done in this, uh, during my PhD level. OK, liquid test at thermal grid is a, is a combination of, uh, what is that thermographic thermochromic We are using some thermochromic liquid crystal material, Thermomix temperature chromic means some color changes. OK, if you're using this thermochromic liquid crystal material on the surface, what will happen?

When heat is going to be at 10, because this is a thermochromic materials, we are using materials means we are testing on that materials on the particular surface, OK. Now when the fluid flow over surface is what will happen, we need to check where the heat transfer is going to be high, where the heat transfer will be low, where the this what is that turbulence effects will be high and low, something that this this liquid system material will give some. Guidelines based on that liquid state stimuli we are catching some images.

With that images each e-mail having its RGB value, red, green and blue RGB value OK Based on that RGB value, each is having this huge value, each color having its huge value. With that huge value with some temperature, we make some hue temperature calibration curve. Based on that hue temperature calibration curve, we are putting this equation into this Matlab program and that we are getting the based on that we are getting the proper nursery number.

Uh, for that particular images, what we have taken based on that VA can attend, we can find that with the color response where the heat transfer, the mode where the heat transfers less based on that this research is also going on for that. Apart from this, that's why we are taking some other approach. This is infrared thermography approach. In this infrared thermal know any such thermochromic liquid crystal metric is required. That is we are pushing using some camera.

The surface and that way they're directly capturing with this intra electrometric bit and we are getting some current response like that. This is the approach we are going through that.

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Yes, Professor Kumar. How does this research methodology translate into practical applications, such as in renewable energy systems or industrial technologies?

Yeah, actually the solar heater is basically the main application is everywhere it is using for the actually in agriculture industry trying off what is that agricultural product reasoning of Timbers weaker using in the solar distillation and this what the output we are getting getting as a heat this can be utilized for solar cooking solar distillation many, many application is there we can use OK.

Based on that we are you can see that the many research is still going on and based on that we need to see that what the new in the innovation and new invention. We can invention no, no new concept we can utilize there and something we can approach like this.

It sounds like you're deeply committed to advancing solar technologies through innovative research methodologies. As you think about integrating these approaches into your teaching, how would you explain these complex methodologies, like liquid crystal thermography or infrared thermography, to undergraduate students just beginning to study renewable energy?

Yeah, uh, uh, this, uh, liquid twisted thermography and this infrared Thermo is not limited. In particular, I'm talking about this solar air heater. We can dig it with the multiple area of what I'm saying the icing engine where the heating chamber is there where the.

This combustion chamber is there we can approach like this, uh, in that particular in the medical, uh, in the medical industry. If you see that, uh, if you're using some having the, this tumor, tumor, if you're using infrared thermography or LCT, if you're testing on the particular body and this color response will show that, yeah, there's, if any heating zone or any tumor, is there some heating zone in the color response field changes based on that, we can find out that, yeah, uh, in the early detection of any tumor or something like it can be detected with this.

Also, this is not limited to this particular need renewal and resources we can use in multiple area in the solar energy, in the in the wind energy and the medical industry, in the automobile industry as well. Many many ideas you can use this.

Thank you, Professor Kumar. You've outlined the versatility of these methodologies across industries quite well. To distill this into a classroom teaching moment for undergraduates, how might you design a simple experiment or demonstration to give students a hands-on understanding of either liquid crystal thermography or infrared thermography? Could you share an example?

Bob actually what will happen is buying this liquid liquid kitchen thermography and if it is very costly, we need to approach this not simply available in everywhere. Based on that what the concept I have read with different different literature review different research paper based on that I will suggest our students to go through that and. If if you are getting a good finding based on that, we'll ask you to write some.

Uh, we, we'll, we'll plan to write some, uh, research, uh, proposal for getting some funding for that. And based on that, uh, because of this very costly, it is not, it is not easy to buy from a very, in a very simple way, what I'm saying. So we need to approach, we like that. We need to give some guidelines, uh, uh, guidelines regarding, uh, what is that, uh, suggest suggesting some research paper which is basically based on the LCT and carial thermography. Uh, very limited work of the infrared thermography approach. The approach has been used for the.

This solar air system actually so we can proceed like that we write some proposal and based on that some funding can be generated and then after the future that student can means they can understand the things what is what is The thing is happening with this.

Understood, Professor Kumar. Your approach of guiding students through literature reviews, encouraging research proposals, and fostering an understanding of the fundamentals within cost-effective constraints is quite practical. How do you ensure these research activities also build critical thinking and problem-solving skills in your students?

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Yes, Sir.

How do you ensure that your students develop strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills through these research activities and proposals?

The thing is that when we are guiding any student based on that suppose any lab work they are doing based on that lab work also we can club, we can get with writing some funding proposal on that. Suppose we are doing some mini project based on that mini project also we can suggest you to write some paper on that. OK, so integrating. This research with the teaching in the many aspects we can approach like that.

And you can give some guidelines based on that. Definitely in the in the future, the student will try to get all the concepts of this research and, and, and writing some funding based on that. What there is, what the thing they are doing, what the work, what the project they are doing. Based on that we can approach like this. And this is very fruitful from the research point of view if you are doing like that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Professor Kumar. I’ll proceed to the next step. One moment.

Professor, could you outline a three-year research roadmap that aligns with the responsibilities outlined for this position? How would you ensure that your work contributes to high-impact research, external revenue generation, and institutional prominence?

Actually.

What I gained during my.

Till they're doing my PhD and, uh, to, till that what I gained through my expertise and this basic learning based on that, I will, uh, I will explore more work on research and I'll try to make it in the some good level. Uh, and this, uh, thing we are talking about some, something how this will be. Yeah. For the funding I need to, I need to make some network with some different, different collaborators.