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The Principal
Reva Institute of Technology and Management
Kattigenahalli,Yellahanka
Bangalore - 560064

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr.Sharanappa Godiganur
Head of the Department
E-mail: sharanappa@revainstitution.org

VISION OF THE DEPARTMENT

Our vision is to be the premier Mechanical Engineering Department recognized for its outstanding education, research and scholarly work, and is well-liked for the high quality of its graduates.

MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT

The mission of the Department of Mechanical Engineering is to educate, prepare, and mentor students to graduate as professional and to grow throughout their careers in order to meet the competitive global market Utilize technology for the progress of mankind being frontier in teaching, engineering principles, research and development.

LONG TERM GOALS

• To pursue excellence in research and technology transfer in order to achieve centre of excellence in the field of bio fuels, materials and its coatings, rapid prototyping, industrial engineering etc..
• Recruit and retain high quality faculty members with interests in variety of areas of mechanical engineering.
• Attain national recognition as an active engineering department.
• To establish job oriented continuous training centre for graduate and diploma students collaborate with industry and other university in light of exchanging ideas.

SHORT TERM GOALS

• To establish Advanced PG courses
• Consultancy assignments
• Increase  interaction and collaboration with industry- institute interaction as a solution provider for industry.
• Entertaining the faculties for the skill upgradation through attending seminar, conference etc.
• Nurture interpersonal, technical, moral and entrepreneurial skills in students through effective mentoring, training and workshops.
• To encourage Research activities.

INTRODUCTION OF THE DEPARTMENT

Mechanical Engineering Department of Reva Institute of Technology started functioning from the year 2004 with a sanctioned intake of 60 students per annum. The focus of the department is to offer quality education in the specialized fields of Design, Manufacturing, Thermal and Materials engineering. The might of the Department, apart from its Students, is its Qualified and Experienced Faculty/Staff. The faculty strength includes 5 doctorates working as professors and assistant professors and 8 faculties pursuing PhD in NIT’s, VTU and Bangalore University. Faculties are actively engaged in Teaching and mentoring students apart from perusing their research activities in the emerging fields of engineering, extending consultancy activities with the manufacturing environment and also established mutually rewarding professional relationships with many a leading R&D Labs/Research Institutions. VTU has granted research centre status on 22-04-2009 to the department credit. The department results have progressively increased by year to year. The Department has also submitted the Proposal for the grant of research project under various research grants scheme to establish advanced facilities in the area of thermal and materials research. The department has published the research work in various international and national communities. The department has on campus industry Viz. Metro Mechanical manufacturing Company. It is engaged in industrial research activities & Fabrication of equipments to give industrial exposure to students. The main objective of on campus industry is to promote “Earn while learn program”.

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The Principal
Reva Institute of Technology and Management
Kattigenahalli,Yellahanka
Bangalore - 560064

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

• To build up the best possible theoretical knowledge and practical skills in subject areas which inculcate appropriate moral and ethical values in students through proper instruction and guidance for their career through a team of caring, dedicated, determined and well trained qualified faculties.
• To promote holistic development of students through various physical, mental, social, cultural, personal & spiritual enrichment programmes.
• Meaningful faculty advising and mentoring.
• A commitment to continuing education 
• Initiate active student societies
• Commitment to engineering as a service-to-humanity profession.

FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE

The department is constantly updating the infrastructure and laboratory facilities as per the present scenario. The department has equipped with Five classrooms, 11 laboratory halls, one staff room, one seminar hall, departmental library etc. The total carpet area of department is about 2702 sq. mtrs. The department is also equipped with modern teaching aids like LCD’s, smart boards etc.

The department has established the state of art laboratories such as

• Material testing Lab
• Foundry and Forging Lab
• CAD/CAM Lab
• CIM Lab (FMS Kit)
• Machine Shop Practice
• Workshop Practice
• Design Lab
• Energy Conversion Lab
• Fluid Machinery Lab
• Heat and Mass Transfer Lab
• Metro Mechanical Manufacturing Pvt.Ltd

Major Softwares:

• Auto Desk Inventor series
• CATIA
• ANSYS
• M-Tab CNC Trainer
• CADem – CNC Turn, CNC Mill, Caps turn, Caps mill
• Solid Edge

HUMAN RESOURCES

The department has well qualified and experienced faculties with an average teaching experience of more than 12 years, with 1 Professor, 6 Asst. Professors, 2 Senior Lecturers, and 6 Lecturers, 1 dedicated programmer, 1 Foremen, 4 Instructors, and 4 Lab Attenders are provided in Laboratories for assisting students and Faculties.

To focus on individual student and monitor their academic performance and provide assistance to their personal problems, a mentor scheme is adapted with 15 students under each faculty. The department organizes regularly the parent – teacher meeting to discuss academic issues and progress of the students with their parents.

Non-Teaching Staff

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The faculties in the department are actively involved in research and development and have published around 150 technical articles in international / national journals and conferences. The major research areas are

• Developing alternative fuels with special focus on non edible vegetable oils for IC engines.
• Design and Development of composite coating by thermal spray technique in improving resistance to wear, erosion, oxidation and hot corrosion
• Thermodynamic modeling and computer simulation of various nano composite oxide films
• Developing pure and composite films by MOCVD , characterization and investigation of mechanical properties.
• Process parameter optimization for betterment of part quality (General Purpose machine and Rapid Prototyping). Optimization by ANN tool, grey relational analysis and multiple parameter tunning.
• General solution to stresses involved in machine components
• Passive cooling of buildings, Energy management in process industries

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Abstract of Publications

RECENT JOURNAL PAPERS

1. Kapilan, N. and  Dr.R.P.Reddy, ( ‘Performance and emissions of a dual fuel operated diesel engine’, Int. J. Alternative Propulsion, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.125–134, 2012).
2. Ramakrishna Hegde, Shrikantha S.Rao, Dr.R.P.Reddy, “ Studies on Nanoparticle Coating due to Boiling Induced Precipitation and Its Effect on Heat Transfer Enhancement on a vertical cylindrical surface”, Experimental thermal and Fluid Science- Elsevier publications, 38, 229 –236, 2012 (2010 Impact factor 1.267, 5-Year Impact factor 1.572).
3. Ramakrishna Hegde, Shrikantha S.Rao, Dr.R.P.Reddy, “Experimental studies on CHF enhancement in pool boiling with CuO-water nanofluid”, Heat and Mass Transfer, Springer- Verlag Publications, DOI 10.1007/s00231-011-0955-9, published online: 03 Jan 2012 (2010 Impact factor 0.673).
4. Ramakrishna Hegde, Shrikantha S.Rao, Dr.R.P.Reddy, “Investigations On Heat Transfer Enhancement In Pool Boiling With Water-CuO nanofluids” Journal of Thermal Science, Springer -Verlag publications, 21(2), 179 -183, 2012( 2010 Impact factor 0.212).
5. Ramakrishna Hegde, Shrikantha S.Rao, Dr.R.P.Reddy, “Boiling induced nanoparticle coating and its effect on pool boiling heat transfer on a vertical cylindrical surface using CuO nanofluids”, Heat and Mass Transfer, Springer - Verlag Publications, DOI 10.1007/s00231-012-0996-8, published online: 07 April 2012 ( 2010 Impact factor 0.673).
6. Vijaykumar.B.Chanshetty, Sangshetty.K, Sharanappa.G, “Surface Morphology Studies and Thermal analysis of V2O5 doped polyaniline composites” Int.Journal of Engineering Research and Applications(IJERA) , Vol.2,Issue 5,Sept-Octo 2012, pp.611-616.
7. Sharanappa Godiganur,   R P Reddy, Anil Kumar Patil “Performance and Emission Study of Rice Bran Oil Methyl Ester in a 4-Stroke Natural Aspirated Direct Injection Diesel Engine”, International Journal of Trends in advanced science and engineering” March 2012.
8. Manjunatha L.H. Dr.P.Dinesh, “Development  & Study on Microstructure, Hardness and Wear Properties of as Cast, Heat Treated and Extruded CNT-Reinforced With 6061AL Metal Matrix Composites”, International journal(IJMET), Volume 3, Issue 3, Sept-Dec(2012), pp.583-598.(Impact factor(2012): 3.8071.
9. Mallikarjuna Reddy. D and Swarnamani. S. “Damage detection and identification in structures by spatial wavelet based approach”. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering. (Vol-10, 1, pp. 69-87, 2012).
10. Mallikarjuna Reddy. D and Swarnamani. S. “Application of the FRF curvature energy damage detection method to plate like structures”, World Journal of modeling and simulation. Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 147-153, 2012.
11. Mallikarjuna Reddy. D and Swarnamani. S. “Damage Identification multilevel building structure using empirical mode decomposition method”, International journal of advances in science and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2012 (Accepted for publication)
12. N Jegadeeswaran, M R Ramesh,  K Udayabhat, “Wear Studies on Wrought and Heat Treated Nimonic, Titanium and Superco Superalloys”,  International Journal Applied Science Engineering Research (IJASER), February- May,  Volume 2 Issue 3, 2012.Also Presented in International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM-2011) Proceedings held on 19th 20th of August 2011, Page No. 48.
13. H. G. Hanumantharaju, Dr. H. K. Shivanand, Dr. M. M. Benal , Shivasharanayya Swamy , Hemanth B, “Immersion Corrosion study of Uncoated SS316L, Coated SS316L, Uncoated Ti-6Al-4V, Coated Ti-6Al-4V, Uncoated Alumina, Coated Alumina, PEEK, PEEK with 30% glass filled, Polyurethane used as Biomaterials”, International journal of Mechanical engineering (IJME),2012.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

REVA SAE COLLEGIATE CLUB

Reva Institute of Technology and management has formed the Sae collegiate club. The club is an initiation by the Department of Mechanical Engineering to represent the college in the global level.

CLUB ASSOCIATES

• CHAIRMAN-Mr. P ShyamRaju

• CO-CHAIRMAN-  Dr. RanaPrathap Reddy

• SECRATORY – Mr. Dhanamjaya

• FACULTY COORDINATORS – Mr. L.R Jagadeesh and Mr. Raju B.S

• STUDENT CHAIRPERSON – Vishal G

• STUDENT VICE CHAIRPERSON – Apoorva

• STUDENT SECRATORY – Shaahank.U Moro

Contact

Mr.Vishal G. 8th Semester Mechanical Engineering
Mobile :+91 9742813482
E-mail : vishalgiridhar@gmail.com

 Aaryan Racing Project

The Aaryan Racing Team, formulated by the students of Mechanical Department is participating in the world level Formula SAE competition organized by Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) International. The Team headed by L.R Jagadeesh and Raju B.S, have begun to roll the dice for this endeavor.

Department Associations

The Mechanical Association For Intellectual Achievers (MAFIA) is the association of the students of Mechanical Engineering Department whose main objective is to nurture the talents of the students in both academic and non academic matters. The association organizes different types of extra curricular activities and co-curricular activities like Paper Presentation, seminars, invited talks by the people from industry and academic institutions.

Activities

• Mechathlon, Intercollegiate Technical Paper Presentation will be conducted under Mechanical Students Chapter every year.
• The department is tied up with India Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineer (ISHRAE) for training & Placement of Mechanical students in the field of refrigeration &Air conditioning.
•  Training on Mechanical software CATIA, HYPERMESH and ANSYS conducted by Swamy Design Solutions Pvt. Ltd for the duration of 3 months.
• Training program on “Basics on Hydraulics and Pneumatics” & “Basics on Industrial Robotics” at VTU – Bosch Rexroth Centre of Competence in Automation Technology, Mysore.
• Industrial visits  
• Introduction of departmental Library
• Organized Ajith Prabhat Memorial Vollyball Tournament
• Organized Revamp 2010 3-D Modelling compitation & Technical Paper Presentation.

STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Mr. Manish Soni got 1st Prize in Paper publication at PES college of Engg, Mandya.
• Ms. Roshni Menon & Mr. Manish Soni got 1st Prize in State Level Paper Presentation at Reva ITM, on 17th April 2009.
• Ganesh .R. Murugandam, got best Outgoing Student award.
• Bineesh V.D., Gaurav Dixit and M. Shaheer, have been granted a fund for carrying out final year project from KSCST. The project has been selected for presentation during 32nd series of Student Projects Programme Seminar-cum-Exhibition: 2008-2009 held at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore. 
•  Yathindra.R., Srinivas Murthy .T., Sharth Kumar and Vinay S.H. have been granted a fund for carrying out final year project from KSCST.
  

Industry- Institute Interaction

• Teaching for the entire semester strictly according to lesson plan prepared well at the beginning of the semester.
• Continuous assessment of Student performance & conduction of co-curricular and extra curricular activities.
• Effective teaching using aids includes Black Boards, OHP, LCD projectors etc.
• Some of the subjects which are of main concern & difficult are taken care by allotting extra classes in the time table.
• Regular Training on Mechanical software CATIA, HYPERMESH and ANSYS conducted by SDS Pvt. Ltd for the duration of 3 months.

STUDENT COUNSELING
A student counseling committee has been formed in order to understand the grievances of the students of both academic and personal issues. Each faculty, counsel 15 students. The academic performances, behavior and regularity of the student to the classes are monitored closely, based on which students are counseled. Further the matter will be reported to centralized student welfare wing committee.

PLACEMENT
Abhinaw Anand and Ajay N. got Campus Placement in QUEST.