Dr. P. C. Dumir is a retired Professor from the Department of Applied Mechanics at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, M. Tech. in Machine Design (Mech. Engg.) from IIT Kharagpur and Ph. D. from Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi. He served the Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi for 42 years since1966 and retired as Professor in 2007 with a small stint at University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has contributed more than 100 research papers in International Journals in different areas of Solid Mechanics. Prof. Dumir is included in the list of top 2% of world’s scientists published by Stanford University in the field of Mechanical Engineering. He was one of the finest teachers at IIT Delhi. He has published a textbook on Engineering Mechanics, Universities Press, India, 2020.
Dr. B. P. Patel is Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is a B. E. in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Rewa (Madhya Pradesh), M. Tech. in Design Engineering from IIT Bombay and Ph. D. from Department of Applied Mechanics, MNNIT Allahabad. He served in Institute of Armament Technology, DRDO, Girinagar, Pune for 10 years before joining the Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi in December 2004. He has contributed 110 research papers in International Journals, 27 in National Journals and more than 100 in national/international conferences in different areas of Solid Mechanics including fluid structure interaction. He is a recipient of Young Engineer Award in 2001 from Indian National Academy of Engineering, and currently in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Damage Mechanics published by Sage.
Dr. Sanjeev Sanghi is Professor of the Applied Mechanics department at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is a B. Tech. in MechanicalEngineering from IIT Kanpur, MS from Cornell University, USA and Ph.D. from City University of New York, USA. He has been a recipient of the Ralph Boliagno award for being the most distinguished Teaching assistant at Cornell University and the Excellence in Teacher Award at I.I.T. Delhi. He has been Member Board of Governors, Dean Alumni Affairs and International programmes and Head Educational Technology at IIT Delhi. He was also the Head of Applied Mechanics Department at IIT Delhi, where he has spearheaded a new B. Tech. programme in Engineering and Computational Mechanics. He is recognized for his research work on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), chaos and low dimensional modelling, development of new discretization schemes in CFD and modelling of turbulent flows, and studies on supression of turbulence with an increase in heat transfer for configurations like channel flow and rotating flows in confined cavities.His youtube channel Sanghi-Lab-IITD is very popular and has his recordings on full course lectures on Fluid Mechanics, Engineering mechanics and Mechanics portion of high school Physics.
