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Good day, Professor. Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

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Listen, I'm.

I'm thank you so much, Sir. I'm Doctor G Satyamurthy.

Completed my PhD.

Completed my PhD in the National Institute of Technology, Tritrapalli and I'm having five years of research experience as a research scholar in the National Institute of Technology, Trishapalli and my area of research in the field of brake friction materials, polymer matrix composites, sustainable and renewable materials, eco-friendly materials and I'm having.

Five years of teaching experience from various institutions and I have taken the subjects of mechanical engineering and interdisciplinary subjects also. So I'm having both the teaching and research experience and I'm more passionate about the teaching as a teacher so that only I have completed my.

B And immediately I joined the me, Sir.

That's about my academic journey through this 10 years.

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You're welcome, Professor. Shall we proceed with the interview?

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Professor, let us start with your expertise in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Can you explain the key principles you would emphasize when teaching fundamental courses in Electrical and Electronics Engineering to undergraduate students?

So the key basic principles for the electrical and electronics engineering is the basic concepts of uh.

The communications and the electrical core subjects so in that the electrical motor and the current and the energy and the difference between the work and the energy and the basic concepts of.

The electricals and the electronics. So all those things are to be considered as a part of the.

Integrating the concepts of current.

And work energy, it is the basic principle, as I feel, in the concept of electrical and electronics.

Maximum the students may focusing on the energy oriented sources.

The maximum the students may studied upon the individual subjects of the electrical systems and the circuits, gates and other process. So even though I belongs to the mechanical engineering and I am having some knowledge of integrating the particular part of this energy sources in this principle Sir.

Thank you, Sir.

Let us now move to the area of Renewable Engineering. Can you discuss how you would approach integrating renewable energy concepts into practical laboratory exercises for students?

Yes, Sir, sure. So as a part of the renewable engineering sources, so we can able to tell the practical application wise so we can able to tell the environmental impact and that the amount of energy needed for the particular. Uh, sources of now we are using a N number of sources right now. So in those things, if we are going for the energy demand and the environmental impact, also considering the factors we need to go for the renewable energy sources so far that what are all the list of available energy materials, so like solar energy and wind energy, ocean energy, geothermal energy and basic biomass and biorefinery concepts. So all these things that.

We have tell to the students in a step by step by integrating the practical applications. So we must give the some students project work and we can able to tell the real impact of environmental situations to them so that they can easily understand. So they can easily able to identify the concepts behind those renewable engineering sources and they can be able to. Set to the adaptive environment to.

To produce or to develop sustainable energy and to get the materials what we what way that we can they can able to develop or integrate the sources into to produce the renewable energy concepts so that I will explain to them and so that they I can able to integrate both the industrial exposure and practical exposure to the field reserve.

Understood, Professor. As a follow-up, how would you evaluate the impact of these practical exercises on the students' understanding of renewable energy concepts?

So by giving the evaluation of how they are able to work in that particular field means by giving the quizzes and Simmons based educations and giving the student project works and guiding the students to to go through many literatures and to give the some proposals for.

Developing the new renewable energy resources so.

So that we can evaluate in this way that how they can able to understand those concepts and how they are able to integrating the industrial with the academic platform. So that we can able to identify through these concepts of giving the assignments, quizzes and by simply of giving of project works and explaining the students.

Or to make them to present.

And innovative idea of what are the next generation of these renewable energy sources that they have to give up in the presentation format. So in this way I can able to evaluate such kind of activities for the students there.

Thank you, Professor. Let us now move on to Mechanical Engineering. Could you describe how advancements in materials technology have influenced modern mechanical engineering applications?

Listen, so my basic research area is fully on materials only. So materials in which I have experienced well in this manner is I have working in the area of great friction materials. So the materials play some major role in providing the friction performance in breaks. So not only in breaks but also in all the other industrial applications.

The materials are very important and you can able to produce them. Maximum performance and next level of growing technology is identified by by using materials only. So in my aspects when we are going for the sustainable or the eco friendly materials.

Which can able to recycle in a fast manner and we can able to grow for the.

Environmental friendly working environment with the other applications of the technology Sir. Why? Because means if you use some hazardous materials, it can create the carcinogenic effects to the human beings. So the fact is that the materials place a major role in this aspects. So we need to go for sustainable, sustainable products or if you follow the sustainable development goals.

And you if you are going for the eco friendly or natural based products.

It will be of more suitable and if we enhance the performance of these products by certain methods when the mixing with the tough some hybrid materials or some mixing of these two combinations of materials were helpful in giving the exact performance of what other materials is giving. So such a research work is going on in this.

So in this aspects I consider it as an as a mechanical engineer, the materials plays a major role and the maximum materials are to be helpful for developing this products. Because the materials acts as a durability and gives high performances. Friction based product works so it tends to place a major role.

Material field. So I am probably working in that material field only.

Also, helpfully for the next generation of materials is also to be helpful for the renewable energy sources, Sir.

So we are going for searching in advanced material technologies.

Thank you, Sir.

Let's now discuss your ability to guide student research. Could you share how you mentor students through a research project, particularly in ensuring they formulate well-defined objectives and methodologies?

Yes, Sir. Actually for guiding the students project work, I will uh, ask the students in which area are you interested in doing the project work because each one of the students will having the suitable area or interest in that particular field.

So, if we try to approach the students in this particular field, suppose the person who is more interested in doing some project works in renewable energy sources. So I will ask the students to just first modify the problems. What are all the list of the problems in the current situation or the current technology. So later that we have to once the problem is identified, we need to go for the particular solutions. So for that we have to examine the.

Creatures and what are all the available sources for solving the particular problem and so that we can able to get the clarity in approaching the possible way of solution to the particular problem later works the possible feasibility and the working environment and the particular cost effective of the project work is also to be needed so that we can able to give.

The maximum and also a cost effective solution to the particular problem. So in my aspect as a research point of view, so I have delivered the first identify the problem and we have to give the particular solution in the possible way of identifying the literatures and identifying the experts in those particular field who is already working on this particular problem and the R&D field. So we can. Ask the number of.

Uh, possible ways of solutions and identifying the technological concepts beyond for improving the, uh, solution to the particular problem. So later works, I asked the students to give the possible way of solutions for this particular problem so he can able to deliver the ways in which, uh, the solutions of the problem is in this way. So that we have to go for the experimental work, if possible by analyzing.

Modeling in the first week so later once the modeling is get success we can go for the experimental work. So when the experimental work is also to be the success then finally it is to be gets converted into one patent or the paperwork for the students skills in order to enhance the performance. And if we give the solutions to the particular problem it will be of more suitable for the industry also. So it once it if it is to be patented or if it is to be.

Of journal work, he also gets recognized as such of doing the particular solution to these problems. So in this way I have able to go for the identifying problems and the search methodology and possible way of solutions. By doing this work, the students can able to identify how to approach the problems and how to solve the problems in an scientific and an experimental research.

Thank you, Professor. Could you clarify how you measure the success of these student research projects in terms of academic and practical outcomes?

Yes Sir, actually the students is mainly focusing on the academic field. He actually the subjects that which we he was studying in this as an academic wise. When we are going for the exact academic mission into 1 practical way, the way how it integrates both the academic and the research real practical applications plays a major role.

Each one of the students is having a different idea in understanding the concepts and when we are going for the real applications in practical industrial oriented wise.

He can get the clarity of idea and what he's studying, what are all the concepts behind this and how he can able to understand the concepts that we can apply these concepts into a practical application that domain he gets it, gets it from an industry or real world situations only. So if we are going for the academic wise and also one integrating the academic wise into one research field, he can gets the good idea because. Initially in the period itself, if we go for the.

Renewable energy engineering topic the renewable is must most important. So if he studies the academic wise he can able to understand the what all the possible possibilities of renewable sources and how we can able to develop that he can study in an academic way if we do the research in this particular field in the real time world in the practical. Practical works and real environmental setup. What are the environmental impacts?

That behind the renewable energy sources, what are the practical difficulties in the how they are handling the particular materials so that.

That they can get it from them industrial wise or the real-time application wise.

So while we are integrating both in terms of project works and in terms of research works, so he can get an exact idea and the concepts what he studied is exactly applied by giving the idea and the practical oriented advice he can he can forget that concepts and he can able to remember throughout the life. So that integration of the exact. Practical and academia wise in this way.

That we can able to get the lifelong learning so they can be able to easily understand the projects until their life they can able to execute the proper solution to the problems.

Understood, Professor. Let's now discuss evaluation and exam duties. What strategies do you employ to design assessments that effectively measure both theoretical understanding and practical application in engineering courses?

So while going for an evaluation in this concepts we must give if we are able to teach and they are understanding the concepts and they are giving those.

Examination while for going for the examinations the questions based on the concepts and based on the basic principles and based on the students. Idea of.

The case studies that they are giving it to it so it can be.

Separated into a different fields of understanding the principles, understanding the concepts and we can give some exact case type problems so that the the student can apply their ideas, apply their concepts and apply their principles in what way that they can able to give and think and understand and so that he can able to.

Give the exact output of the particular.

Situation so that in which the way that we can evaluate the person's ability are the students ability in that examination because the practical wise evaluation is to be needed nowadays since.

Finding a memory.

And the case studies are some practical oriented problems by giving the solutions in terms of analyzing their whole mind of problems of what they have learned in that concepts, principles and form loss by applying all those things so in which he can be able to give the solution to the practical problem is in through the life itself.

I'm able to evaluate such kind of activity means it is to be helpful in analyzing the students ability to practical situational so that he can able to.

Withstand any of the situations in their real life so this much examinations needed for the thing to.

Get the students evaluation ability that in what way he understand the concepts, in what way he understand the lectures and how he is getting that concept and.

He's presenting the exact solution to the problems in which. This way, if we evaluate those skills, it will be useful for them to get more suitable opportunities in the.

So say.

Thank you, Professor. Let's now move to research publications. Could you describe one of the impactful research publications you authored and its significance in the field?

Listen. So in the research publications, I have almost 20 papers out of which the 11 are in CI publications and the remaining are in the Scopus indexed publications and some conference publications, some book chapters. This is also in this field and I have.

The six papers in my PhD publication after the post PhD publication. Also I'm having the.

Three peoples and two book chapters.

And one, Scopus indexed papers also. So regarding the impact factors and I have published in six impact factor journal and polymer composites and four, polymer bulleting and 3.8 journal of Phenylene additive technology and two, surface topography and metrology and properties so and six also Tribology International so.

The High Impact Factor journal also I have published.

The example I'm telling that that polymer composites and Tribology international like that. So I have almost published through this six years almost 11 papers which are in SC index and.

Almost total publication scores 20, nearly 20. So all are in Scopus publication, Sir.

Thank you, Professor. Could you specifically highlight the research challenges or innovative methodologies involved in one of your impactful papers?

Listen.

The research challenges, uh, The thing is that, uh, as a research scholar, I faced, uh, uh, lot of challenges while understanding the, initially I tried to get the problems, what, the exact problems in my field. And, uh, I try to, uh, list out those particular problems and I try to go go through the literatures for, what are the maximum possible way of solutions in this particular field.

Later on, when we are going for the experimental work and, uh, we have to, uh, give the experimental solutions and particular slots of doing the characterization, uh, techniques. So, uh, and also, uh, the paper communication, uh, initially we have to draft the once we got the results and we have to be able to study the full concepts and based on the literatures, we can able to identify the.

The structured layout of the journal papers and.

Certain tracks after a number of repetitions of the experimental analysis and basic scientific details is to be needed in that particular topic area. So when the communication and took a long period of time as doing as research in this particular field, but I enjoyed a lot instead of facing the challenges.

I can see it takes us an opportunity as, uh, as to develop my skills, knowledge and in terms of practical applications and in terms of the reality of work. I feel it has an exciting opportunity for me to take all those challenges and I convert it as an useful period of good journey in my PhD work. And, uh, so I worked hard in this. Uh, details of this paper research work so that I can get the maximum benefits of.

Uh, almost.

Thank you, Professor. Moving forward, could you elaborate on your experience with industry projects or consultancy, particularly in aligning academic research with industrial needs?

Our scheduled time for the interview is now up. Before we conclude, do you have any questions related to the role or the company?

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Hello, Professor. Would you like to ask anything before we wrap up?

Sir, am I audible now?

Yes, Professor, I can hear you clearly now. Would you like to ask anything before we conclude the interview?

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Sir, I'm not audible. Can you tell me once again?

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