Dr. Keshav N. Nandurkar
Completed BE (Production) from WIT Solapur in 1987, ME (Production) from VJTI Mumbai in
1992 and PhD (Mechanical) from IIT Bombay (2002). Working as Principal of K. K. Wagh
Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik, since September 2004. Total teaching
experience of over thirty-five years. Elected as Chairman of BOS in Production and Industrial
Engineering at SPPU (2017-2022) for second turn and appointed as Coordinator of BOS in 2023.
Guided eight students for ME (Production) dissertation. Supervised seven candidates for their
PhD and four students are currently registered for PhD. Published 32 Research papers in various
journals and 83 papers in various National and International conferences with 300+ citations.
Member of Editorial Board and Reviewer of reputed National and International Journals.
Visited USA, UK, Ireland, Bangladesh, Netherlands, China and Malaysia for attending
conferences and collaboration with foreign Univeristies. Attended Alumni meetings in USA and
Dubai .
Invited as Co-convenor of Industry-Academia connect panel of CII Maharashtra State Council
for the second year. Delivered over 50 invited talks at various workshops/ seminars. Life
Member of IE (I), ISTE, IIPE, ORSI, IIIE, ISTD. Approved as assessor for NBA and NAAC
accrediattaion. Received “Engineering Achievement” award from The Institution of Engineers
(India), Nashik Center (2014) and Best Principal of the year award from CSI Mumbai (2018).
Received Best Principal award from Savitribai Phule Pune University (2022-23)