Curriculum Vitae of Dr. M. Amarnath Personal Information Nationality : Indian Dr. M. Amarnath Assistant Professor; 21-01-2008 to till date. Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur Sex : Male Dumna Airport Road, Khamaria (Post), Jabalpur – 482005, Madhya Pradesh,India Educational Qualifications Marital Status : Post Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Sang Kwon Lee(Sep, 2012 – July,2013) Married Acoustics & Vibration Signal Processing Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering Date of Birth : InhaUniversity, Incheon, South Korea 18th Ph.D., Machine Design ( 2008) June 1973 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. Contact : M. Tech., Maintenance Engineering (2000 – 2002) +91 9425805414 S. J. College of Engineering, Mysore, India. +91 761-2632044(O) Extn(129) B. E., Mechanical Engineering (1995 – 1999) Fax :+91- 761-2632524 National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Research Interest E-mail : amarnath.cmy@gmail.com Tribology -Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; Wear; Gears; Bearings. Wear analysis for fault diagnosis and machine condition monitoring. amaranth@iiitdmj.ac.in Vibration analysis and signal processing applied to machine condition monitoring Passport No. : Model based and predictive methods J9949878 Structural health monitorintoring using thermography Cutting tool tribology Permanent Address Publications Amaranth M, S/o Muniyappa Amarnath Nilaya, Mehaboob Nagar, 29 Journal papers are published/accepted PhD work Chintamani- 563125 Ph.D. ( 2003 – 2008) Kolar (Dist) Karnataka, India. Ph. 08154 317237 Indian Institute of Technology Madras Title : Fault diagnosis of spur/helical gears using vibration and Tribological parameters monitoring Guided by : Prof. C. Sujatha and Prof. S. Swarnamani References : 1 Prof.. C. Sujatha Description Professor, My research work focuses on elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) and wear Machine Design Section, studies of rolling and sliding contact machine elements such as rolling element Department of Mechanical bearings, gears and journal bearings. Tribological parameters viz. specific film Engineering, IIT Madras, thickness, wear particle morphology, lubricant contaminations etc. are Chennai, 600036, India considered to assess wear mechanisms in machine elements. Tel No. 91-44-2257 4682 acoustic signals are also used in conjunction with tribological parameters for a E-mail : sujatha@iitm.ac.in good understanding of wear propagation in machine elements subjected to Vibration and various operating conditions. Latest signal processing tools such as empirical 2. Prof. Sarit Kumar Das mode decomposition (EMD), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) Professor, and wavelet analyses methods have been used in my research work and Heat Thermal and Transfer research outputs have been published in several international journals and Power Lab, conferences. Department of Mechanical Publications Engineering, Refereed journals IIT Madras, Chennai, 600036, India E-mail: skdas@iitm.ac.in 2014 1. Arora, V., Siddiqui, J., Mulaveesala, R., Amarnath, M. (2014) Pulse Ph. 9500072602 Compression Approach to Non-stationary Infrared Thermal Wave Imaging 9444008040 for Non-destructive Testing of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers. DOI 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2361391, IEEE Sensors Journal (Impact factor – 1.85) 3. Dr. J. Ramkumar 2. based pulse compression approach to infrared thermal wave imaging for Associate Professor, sub-surface defect detection in steel material”, Insight, 56(10), 2014 (Journal Manufacturing Science Lab, Impact factor : 0.45). Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, V Arora, J A Siddiqui, R Mulaveesala, M Amarnath, “Hilbert transform- 3. S.K. Lee, M. Amarnath, “Experimental investigations to establish Kanpur 208016 correlation between Stribeck curve, specific film thickness and statistical E-mail:jrkumar@iitk.ac.in parameters of vibration and sound signals in a spur gear system”, Journal of Ph. 9451220918 Vibration Control. doi: 10.1177/1077546314544164 (Accepted – JournalImpact factor : 4.2). 4. Hemanthkumar, M. Amarnath, Deepak Jain, V. Sugumaran , “Fault Diagnosis of Helical Gear Box Using Naïve Bayes And Bayes Net”, International Journal of Decision Support Systems. (Accepted) 5. J. Kim, M. Amarnath and S.K Lee, “Experimental Investigation to Establish 2 Correlation between Specific FilmThickness and Sound Signals in a Spur Gear System”, Trans. Korean Soc. Noise Vib. Eng., 24(8) : 643- 650, 2014 6. Hemanthakumar, V.SugumaranandM. Amarnath, “Fault Diagnosis of Bearings through Sound Signal using Statistical features and Bayes classifier”, Advances in vibration Engineering. (Accepted – Journal Impact factor : 0.3) 7. Hemanthakumar, T.A. Ranjit Kumar, M. Amarnath and V. Sugumaran, “Fault Diagnosis of Bearings through Vibration Signal Using Bayes Classifiers”, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol 6, No.1, 2014. 8. Aditya, M. Amarnath, and P.K. Kankar, “Feature Extraction and Fault Severity Classification in Ball Bearings” Journal of Vibration Control, ISSN: 1077-5463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077546314528021, ISSN: (Accepted – JournalImpact factor : 4.2) 9. J. S Kim, M.Amarnathand S. K. Lee “Experimental Investigation to Establish Correlation Between Specific Film Thickness and Vibration Signals in Spur Gear System”, Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A, 38 (9), 1005-1012, (Journal Impact factor : 0.2 ). 10. M. Amarnath, Praveen Krishna, “Local fault detection in helical gears via vibration and acoustic signals using EMD based statistical parameter analysis”, Measurement. 58, 154-164 (Journal Impact factor : 1.56). 11. Aditya, M. Amarnath, P.K. Kankar, “Failure Analysis of a GreaseLubricated Cylindrical Roller Bearing” Procedia Technology, 14, 59-66 (Elsevier publication). 12. J. Durwesh, M. Amarnath, H Chelladurai, J. Ramkumar “Experimental investigation on the effect of vegetable based cutting fluid in turning AISI 1040 steel”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Volume (541-542) 2014. 13. M. Amarnath, C. Sujatha, “Surface contact fatigue failure assessment in spur gears using lubricant film thickness and vibration signal analysis”, Tribology Transactions, doi. 10.1080/10402004.2014.97199 ( Accepted- JournalImpact factor : 1.081) 14. M. Amarnath, Arunav Sanyal, Hemantha kumar, V. Sugumaran and G.S. Raghvendra, “Fault Diagnosis of Helical Gear Box using Large Margin K- 3 Nearest Neighbors Classifier using Sound Signals”, Advances in vibration Engineering. Status (Accepted- JournalImpact factor : 0.3). 2013 15. M.Amarnath, C. Sujatha and S. Swarnamani “Gear fault assessment based on continuous wavelet transforms”, Advances in Vibration Engineering, 12 (1) 33- 47. 2013. (Journal Impact factor: 0.328) 16. M. Amarnath, Praveen Krishna, “Detection and diagnosis of surface wear failure in spur gear using EEMD based vibration analysis” Tribology International,61, 224–234, 2013 (Citations: 6) (Journal Impact factor: 1.55) 17. M. Amarnath, V Sugumaran, Hemantha kumar, (2013) “Exploiting Sound Signals for Fault Diagnosis of Bearings Using Decision Tree", Measurement , 46, 1250–1256, 2013 (Citations: 7) (Journal Impact factor:0.96) 18. M. Amarnath, Deepak Jain, V. Sugumaran, and Hemanthakumar, Fault Diagnosis of Helical Gear Box using Decision tree and Best – First Tree, International Journal of Research in Mechanical Engineering, Vol.1, Issue 1, pp. 22-33, 2013. 19. Hemanthakumar, T.A. Ranjit Kumar, M. Amarnath and V. Sugumaran (2012), “Fault Diagnosis of Anti Friction Bearings through Sound Signals using Support Vector Machine”, Journal of Vibroengineering, 14(4). 1601 – 1606, 2013(Citations: 4) (Journal Impact factor: 0.34) 20. V. Sugumaran, Deepak Jain, M. Amarnath and Hemanthakumar, “Fault Diagnosis of Helical Gear Box using Decision Tree through Vibration Signals”, International journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, 195208, 2013. (Citations:2) 2012 21. R. Mulaveesala S.S.B Panda, R.N Mude and M. AmarnathNon-destructive evaluation of concrete structures by non-stationary thermal wave imaging, Progress In Electromagnetic Research Letters, 32, 39-48, 2012. (Citations: 8) (Journal Impact factor: 5.29) 22. M. Amarnath, Praveen Krishna, “Empirical Mode Decomposition of Acoustic Signals for Diagnosis of Faults in Gears and Rolling Element Bearings”, IET Science, Measurement&Technology, 6 (4), 279-287, 2012. . 4 (Citations: 10)( Journal Impact factor: 1.00). 23. M. Amarnath, C. Sujatha and S. Swarnamani, “Experimental Investigations of Surface Wear Assessment of Spur Gear Teeth”, Journal of Vibration Control , 18, 1009 – 1024, 2012, (Citations: 7) ( Journal Impact factor: 1.9) 2011 24. M. Amarnath, Narayan Kumar and Hemantha Kumar, “Assessment of lubricating oil degradation in a spur geared system”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 6(5), 849 – 856, 2011. 2010 25. M. Amarnath, C. Sujatha and S. Swarnamani, “Detection and Diagnosis of Gear Tooth Wear Through Metallurgical and Oil Analysis”, Tribology Online – a journal published by the Japanese Society of Tribologists., 5 (2), 102-110, 2010 (Citations: 1) 2009 26. M. Amarnath, C. Sujatha and S. Swarnamani, ”Experimental investigations on the effects of reduction in Gear tooth stiffness and lubrication film thickness in a spur geared system”,Tribology International,42, 340-352, 2009 ( Citations - 22) ; (Journal Impact factor: 1.557) 27. Sivarao, M. Amarnath , M.S Rizal, A. Kamely, “An Investigation Toward Development Of Economical Brake Lining Wear Alert System”, International Journal of Engineering Science & Technology, , 9(9), 251-256, 2009 (Citations – 6) 2008 28. Mallikarjuna Reddy D, M. Amaranth, R. Srinidhi. and S. PrabhuSwamy “Experimental investigation and analysis of defects in tapered roller bearings using condition monitoring techniques”. Journal of advances in vibration engineering, 7(4), 51 - 55. 2008. (Journal Impact factor: 0.328) 2004 29. M. Amarnath, A. Ramachandra, R. Srinidhi and S. B. Kandagal, “Prediction of Defects in Antifriction Bearings Using Vibration Signal Analysis”, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), 85, 88 – 92, 2004 ( Citations – 24) Under Review 5 30. Vedanth, V.Sugumaran,M. Amarnath and Hemanthakumar, “Fault diagnosis of helical gear box using sound signal and tree based algorithms”, Measurement. Status: -Under Review. 31. R.K. Sharma, V.Sugumaran,Hemanthakumar, andM. Amarnath, “A comparative study of Naïve Bayes classifier and Bayes Net classifier for fault diagnosis of roller bearing using sound signal”, International Journal of Decision Support Systems. Status: -Under Review. 32. M. Amarnath, S.K. Lee “ Assessment of surface contact fatigue failure in a spur geared system based on the vibration and tribological parameter analysis “ Tribology International ( Under review) Conference Publication 2014 1. Aditya Sharma, M. Amarnath, P.K. Kankar, 2014, Effect of Unbalanced Rotor on the Dynamics of Cylindrical Roller Bearings, 9th IFToMM International Conference on Rotor Dynamics (IFToMM ICORD 2014), September 22-25, 2014, Milan, Italy. 2. Aditya Sharma, M. Amarnath, P.K. Kankar, 2014, Effect of varying the number of rollers on dynamics of a cylindrical roller bearing, ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 17-20, 2014, Buffalo, New York, USA. 3. Gangadhar N., Hemantha Kumar, Narendranath S., Sugumaran V. and Amarnath M., “Fault Diagnosis of Bearings through Vibration Signal Using Decision Tree Algorithm”, Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Tribology [ICAT14], Feb 4. 24, 2014, NIT calicut Ajay Vardhaman B.S, DurweshJhodkar, J. Ramkumar, M. Amarnath, H. Chelladurai, “ Tool wear assessment in turning AISI 1040 steel using cutting force signature analysis”, International colloquium on Materials Manufacturing and Metrology, ICMMM -14, 8-9 Aug 2014, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. 5. RavibabuMulaveesala, Subbarao V. Ghali, VanitaArora, Juned A. Siddiqui, AmarnathMuniyappa, “Numerical approach to binary complementary Golay coded infrared thermal wave imaging” Thermal Infrared 6 Applications XXXVI, 3-5 May 2014, Baltimore, Maryland United Status. 6. RavibabuMulaveesala, Subbarao V. Ghali, VanitaArora, Juned A. Siddiqui, AmarnathMuniyappa, “Nonstationary thermal wave imaging for nondestructive testing and evaluation” Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVI, 3-5 May 2014, Baltimore, Maryland United States. 7. RavibabuMulaveesala, Subbarao V. Ghali, VanitaArora, Juned A. Siddiqui, AmarnathMuniyappa, “Pulse compression approach to digitized frequency modulated infrared imaging for nondestructive testing of carbon fibre reinforced polymers” Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVI, 3-5 May 2014, Baltimore, Maryland United States. 2013 8. Hemanthakumar, M. Amarnath andV.Sugumaran,“Fault Diagnosis of Anti Friction Bearings using Vibration and Sound Signals – A Neural Network Approach”, CAE 2013, IIT Madras, Dec 2013, Chennai. 9. RavibabuMulaveesala, Subbarao V. Ghali, VanitaArora, Juned A. Siddiqui, AmarnathMuniyappa, “Theory, modeling, and simulations for thermal wave detection and ranging”, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXV, 29 April - 3 May 2013, Baltimore, Maryland United States . 10. RavibabuMulaveesala, VanitaArora, Juned A. Siddiqui, Subbarao V. Ghali, AmarnathMuniyappa “Recent advances in thermal wave detection and ranging for non-destructive testing and evaluation of materials” Thermal Infrared Applications XXXV, 29 April - 3 May 2013, Baltimore, Maryland United States. 11. RavibabuMulaveesala, Juned A. Siddiqui,VanitaArora,Subbarao V. Ghali , AmarnathMuniyappa, “Nondestructive testing and evaluation of composites by non-invasive IR Imaging techniques ”, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXV, 29 April - 3 May 2013, Baltimore, Maryland United States . 12. Ajay Vardhaman B. S, M. Amarnath and R. Srinidhi “Time domain signalanalysis of two stage helical gear box”, Proceedings of Global Conference–CPIE - 2013 on March 29-31, 2013, National Institute ofTechnology, Jalandhar, Punjab., India. 13. Satyendra Singh, Subhash K. Gautam, VishramMeena, M. Amarnath,“Wear assessment in journal bearing under mixed film lubrication” InnDem-2012), PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and 7 Manufacturing, December 5-7, 2012, Jablpur (India). 14. M. Amarnath, andSang-Kwon Lee, “ Assessment of Surface contact fatigue failures in spur geared system: A case study”:, Proceeding so APVC conference. 15. Ajay Vardhaman B. S, M. Amarnath and R. Srinidhi “Fault detection and diagnosis in helical gears using continuous wavelet transform”, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Changes and Challenges in Commerce, Engineering, Technology and Social Sciences-July 26, 2013 , Pune, Maharastra, India. 16. Jitendra Singh, Ravi Kumar, Aditya, P.K. Kankar, M. Amarnath, “ Feature selection and performance evaluation for fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings using support vector machine” September 16-17, 2013, (DRAMA2013), National Institute of Technical Teachers ‘ Training and Research, Bhopal (India) 17. Aditya, M. Amarnath, P. K. Kankar “ Effect of fault seniority on vibrations of rolling element bearings using response surface method” International conference on Intelligent Robotics, 2 nd Automation and Manufacturing (IRAM-2013), pp. 355-363,December 16-18 (2013), Indian Institute of Technology, Indore (India). 2012 18. Pavan K. Kankar and M. Amarnath, “Detection of local faults in gearbox using discrete wavelet transform”, Wokshop on Mining and Learning in Fault Diagnosis August 10-12, 2012, Xiamen, China 19. AmarnathMuniyappa, Panda Soma SekharaBalaji, MudeRuplaNaik and RavibabuMulaveesala,” Non-destructive evaluation of concrete structures by non-stationary thermal wave imaging”, SPIE, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV, 23 - 27 April 2012,Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 20. RavibabuMulaveesala, P V Nagarjuna, Dadda Ravi and AmarnathMuniyappa, “Non stationary thermal wave imaging techniques for inspection of Wooden Materials”, SPIE, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV, 23 – 27 April 2012,Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 21. RavibabuMulaveesala, SubbaraoGhali and AmarnathMuniyappa, “Matched excitation for thermal non destructive testing of carbon fiber 8 reinforced plastic materials”, SPIE, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV, 23 - 27 April 2012, Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 22. Aditya,Amarnath M, Kankar P K (2012), “Detection of Local Faults in Gearbox using DWT Based Statistical Parameter Analysis”, 4th International & 25th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR-2012), pp. 723-727., December 14-16, 2012, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 23. Hemanthakumar, Ranjit Kumar and Amarnath M,“Fault Diagnosis of Bearings through Vibration Signal using J48 Classifier”, International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Soft Computing, July 11 - 13, 2012, Coimbatore. 24. Saiveena, K, Gupta, P, Amarnath, M, Sastry C.S (2012). Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM),2012, IISC Bangalore. (Citation: 1) 25. M. Amarnath et al. “Wear assessment in journal bearing under mixed film lubrication, Proceedings of InnDeM, December 05-07, 2012, IIITDM Jabalpur (India). 2011 26. Aditya, Ujjawalkumar, Naveen K Barnwal, M. Amarnath, P.K. Kankar, “Wear analysis of cylindrical roller bearing”, International conference in innovations in design and manufacturing (InnDem-2012), December 5-7, 2012, PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jablpur (India). 27. M. Amarnathet al. “Application of infrared imaging for sub-surface sensing of glass fiber reinforced plastic materials”, PFAM-19, Jan – 14 -17 – 2011, pp. 631 – 638, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 28. RuplaNaikMude, Soma SekharaBalaji Panda, VenkataSubbaraoGhali, AmarnathMuniyappa and RavibabuMulaveesala, “Coded Excitation for Infrared Non-destructive Testing of Steel Materials”, NDESAI-2011, 2-3 Dec 2011, Jamshedpur, India. 29. M. Amarnath, R.L. Gautam, Mukesh Kumar Roy, Sunil Agrawal, Ajay Kumarand Hemantha Kumar., “An Experimental Study of Cutting Fluid Effects in Turning”, International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE 2011), December 25-26, 2011, Bangkok, Thailand. 9 2010 30. M. Amarnath, Deepak Singhal, Gauravagarwal, Vijaypal “An Experimental Study of Cutting Fluid Effects in Drilling”, IV International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering- ICAME, Sep. 23-25, 2010, pp 311- 315, NIT Surat, India. 31. M. Amarnath, B. Raghu Naik B Aditya Kumar Singh, and Ch. Dinesh Joshi “A power spectral density based approach for detection of post-ictal heart oscillations with partial epilepsy”, ICCAE – Feb. 26-28, 2010 Singapore 2009 32. M. Amarnath, “Application of Empirical Mode Decomposition Method for Detection of Spur gear Faults”, IPROMM-2009, July - 2009, pp. 51-55, IIITDMKancheepuram, Tamilnadu, India. 2008 33. M. Amarnath, Praveen Krishna “Detection and Diagnosis of Fault in Two Stage Helical Gearbox Using Empirical Mode Decomposition Method”, Proceedings of 53rd Congress of ISTAM,Dec. 27-30, 2008, pp.1621,OusmanuiaUninersity, Hyderabad – India. 34. Nithin Patel, and M. Amarnath “ Condition Monitoring of Antifriction Bearings With Multiple Faults Using Continuous Wavelet Transforms “ Proceedings of National Engineering, 28 – 30, conference October on Advances 2008,Mangalore, in mechanical India.(Best paper presentation award) 2006 35. J. MadhuSudhan and M. Amarnath “Fault Identification in Rolling Element Bearing of a Centrifugal Pump using Continuous Wavelet Transform”, National Conference on Recent Developments and Future Trends in Mechanical Engineering RDFTME-2006, November 03-04, 2006, pp. 212216, NIT Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. 2005 10 36. M. Hashim, M. Amarnath, S. Swarnamani and C. Sujatha“Diagnosis of Gear Wear by Experimental and Theoretical Approach”, Proceedings of 12thNational Conference on Machines and Mechanisms NaCoMM-2005, 18 – 19 December, pp. 284 – 290, 2005, IIT Guwahati, India. 37. M. Amarnath, C. Sujatha and S. Swarnamani, “Gear Fault Detection Using oil film thickness and Vibration Analysis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical and Materials Engineering ICRAMME, 30 – 31 May 2005, pp. 788-792, C.N.P.A.M. University Malaya, Malaysia. 38. M. Amarnath, S. Swarnamani and C. Sujatha,“Application of Wavelet Transform To Gearbox Fault Diagnosis” Proceedings of 12 th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms NaCoMM, 18 – 19 December, 2005, pp. 195 – 201 2005, IIT Guwahati, India. 39. M. Amarnath, C. Sujatha and S. Swarnamani, “Classification of Gear Wear using Artificial Neural Networks”, Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration,11 - 14 July, 2005, paper no. 477,LisbonPortugal. (Citation 1) 2002 40. M. Amarnath, A. Ramachandra and R. Srinidhi, “Condition monitoring of Antifriction bearing using Vibration and Acoustic emission Analysis”, proceedings of 47th conference of Indian society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (An International meet),21 – 24 December, 2002, IIT Guwahati, India. 41. M. Amaranth and A. Ramachandra, “Studies on condition monitoring of Antifriction bearings”, proceedings of National conference on Recent trends in Condition Monitoring of Machines,NMAM, 21 – 22 March, 2002, pp. 51 – 54, Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karnataka, India. Membership in Professional Bodies Tribology Society of India (Life Membership), LM 3688. Indian Society for Technical Education (Life membership No. 60987) International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT, Senior Member No. 80333578) 11 \ Visits to Academic Institutes / Research Organizations / Industries (outside India) Name of the Institute/ Organization/Industry Purpose of Visit Duration InhaUniversity, Incheon Seoul, South Korea To pursue Post doctoral fellowship Sep2012 to July 2013 Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University, Japan. To explore the possibility of collaborative research Nov-Dec - 2009 Okuma Corporation, Aichi, Japan. To explore the possibility of collaborative research Nov-Dec - 2009 Reviewer in International Journals IET Science, Measurement & Technology (Emerald Publications) International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Springer Publication) Neurocomputing (Elsevier publication) Invited Talks Delivered 1. July 15 2005, Artificial Neural Network Models for Evaluating Earthquake Risk and Seismic Liquifaction Potential, National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE), Sponsered Short Term training Course on Probability Methods in Earthquake Engineering (PMEE 2005), Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai ( Tamilnadu, India). 2. June 16 2005, Soft Computing Techniques for Earthquake Risk Evaluation, National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE), Sponsored Short Term Course on Solid Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering (SDEE 2005), Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamilnadu, India). 3. January 19 2007, Applications of Artificial Neural Network in fault diagnosis of machinery : A case study, Soft Computing Approaches in 12 Engineering Applications (SCAEA 2007), Sponsored Short Term training Course, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamilnadu, India). 4. April 5 2013, Applications of signal processing techniques in condition monitoring rotating machines, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Reva Institute of Technoogy, Bangalore (Karnataka, India) 5. May 2 2013, Assessment of faults in gears and bearing using trbolocal parameters, Deapartment of Mechanical Engineering. SJC Institute of Technology, Chickballapur (Krnataka, India). 6. March 21-23, Analysis of correlation between Stribeck curve, specific film thickness and statistical parameters of vibration and sound signals in a spur gear system. A short term course onbearing and gear fault diagnosis,IIT Indore, Indore (Madhya Pradesh, India) 7. September 22, Machine Elements and Tribology, Deapartment of Mechanical Engineering. SJC Institute of Technology, Chickballapur (Krnataka, India). 8. November 1-2, Surface contact fatigue failure assessment in spur gears using lubricant film thickness and vibration signal analysis, FDM’14, A short term course onbearing and gear fault diagnosis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, Dumna Airport Road, Khamaria (Post), Jabalpur – 482005, Madhya Pradesh, India Extra – Curricular Activities Delivered 3 patriotic lectures at All India Radio (AIR) – Mysore, during 2000 – 2001. Worked as an active member and anchor in cultural events conducted by IITM Kannada Cultural Club. Served as Tsunami Relief Leader at the affected site in Tamilnadu during December 2004 (M. Amarnath ) Date: 10/02/2015 13