• Gender: Male
• Age: 42
• Designation: Engineer
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 11.3 Year(s)

Education

Pursing Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering From National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore

Master of Engineering in Design From Kongu Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University), Perundurai, Tamil Nadu in 2008

Bachelor of Engineering From K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology Thiruchengode, Tamil Nadu in 2005

Skill Sets

Fabrication And Equipment Operation Skills
Vacuum bagging, Compression molding
Universal testing machine
Impact testing machine
Dynamic mechanical analyzer
Characterization Skills
TGA, BET surface area analyzer, SEM, XRD, FT-IR, ICP-OES, XPS
2D and 3D CAD Software Skills
AutoCAD, PRO-E, Solidworks
Statistical And Other Software Skills
Origin, Minitab, SPSS

Work Experience

CAD Engineer
Mar 2009 to Oct 2009
Company Profile: Specialise in Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) with our wings spread across the globe.We have the resources and the reach.
Job Profile:
Design, Drafting and detailing of process equipment (mixing kettle) for biochemical plants.
Conducted training courses on mechanical design tools like AutoCAD, PRO-E, and Solidworks.

Teaching Assistant
3 Year
Company Profile: IS A Public Engineering University
Job Profile:
conducted practical classes for the following under graduate courses
Engineering Graphics
Machine Drawing and
Workshop labs

Research Interests:
Biomaterials and Bioceramics: Synthesis and characterization
Fiber reinforced Polymer & hybrid nano-composites: Processing and Mechanical Testing 
Biomechanical and biocompatibility studies of polymer composites

Awards And Honours:
Third prize was awarded for best paper (National Conference on Design and Manufacturing-NaConDM/2011), at Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITD&M) Kancheepuram, IIT Madras campus, 27-28 May, 2011.

Publications:
In Refereed International Journals
G. C. Mohan Kumar.  Sea-coral derived cuttlebone reinforced epoxy composites: characterization and tensile properties evaluation with mathematical models, Journal of Composite Materials, Sage Publications, DOI: 10.1177/0021998315581512

G. C. Mohan Kumar.  Effects of particle size on tensile properties of marine coral reinforced polymer composites, Procedia Materials Science, Vol.5, 2014, Pg.802-808.

Saravana Bavan. D, G. C. Mohan Kumar. A Novel Decorticator Design For Natural Plant Fibers, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol 6, No 5, 2011, pg.561-567.

G. C. Mohan Kumar and Sabareeswaran A. Mechanical, Physical and biocompatibility studies of cuttlebone reinforced epoxy composites. Journal of biomaterial science, Polymer edition (Communicated and under review).

G. C. Mohan Kumar and Sabareeswaran A. Effect of coral derived ceramic bio-fillers as reinforcements in polymer composites for biomedical applications. (In pipeline).

G. C. Mohan Kumar and Sabareeswaran A. coralline bio-filler/carbon fiber reinforced hybrid epoxy composites for bone implants applications. (In pipeline).

Book Chapters:
D. Saravana Bavan, G.C. Mohan Kumar, “Novel Design Features for Matched Die Moulding for Bio-composites”, in “ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies”, Springer Publishers, India, Editor: Dr. Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2015, Pg. 533-543.
 
Conference Proceedings:
G. C. Mohan Kumar. Experimental Studies of Marine Coral (Cuttlebone) Reinforced Polymer Composites, Proceedings of the International conference & 23rd Annual meeting of the Bio-Environmental Polymer Society -BEPS 2015, Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. 12-15th October-2015.

Saravanabavan D. and G. C. Mohan Kumar. Thermal studies of Marine coral/Epoxy composites, Proceedings of the International conference on polymer composites-ICPC 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. 19-20th December-2014.  

G. C. Mohan Kumar. Effects of coralline CaCO3 reinforced epoxy composites for biomedical applications, Proceedings of the 6th International conference on Bangalore India Nano -2013, Department of IT, BT and science and technology, Govt. of Karnataka, Bangalore, India. 4-6 December- 2013.

G. C. Mohan Kumar. Cuttlebone filled polymer composites for biomedical applications, Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Natural Polymer (ICNP)-2012, M.G.University, Kottayam, Kerala India. 26-28 October- 2012.

G. C. Mohan Kumar. Various aspects in extrusion of biocomposites – A Review, Proceedings of the 5th National conference on plastic and rubber technology (NCPRT) POLYCON-2011, Sri Jayachamarajendra college of Engineering, Mysore, India. 25-26 April 2011.

Saravana Bavan. D, G. C. Mohan Kumar. A novel decorticator design for natural (plant) fibers extraction, Proceedings of the National Conference on Design and Manufacturing-NaConDM/2011, at Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITD&M) Kancheepuram, IIT Madras campus, 27-28 May, 2011.

Saravana Bavan. D, Siad, G. C. Mohan Kumar. Modeling and finite element analysis of green composites for structural applications, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM-2011), Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India, 25-27 March 2011. ISBN:978-81-309-1790-0

Saravanabavan D., Abhishek G.M., Kamalbabu P., Narendranath S. and Mohankumar G.C., A Perspective look on Thermal Degradation of Vetiver Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite,  Proceedings of the International conference on polymer composites-ICPC 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. 19-20 December-2014.

Navaneethakrishnan P., Design optimization and analysis of by-pass stack exhaust gas system for gas turbine power plant, Proceedings of the 3rd national conference on Optimization Techniques in Engineering Sciences and Technologies-OPTEST 2008, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamilnadu, India. 28-29th March-2008.

Other Professional Activities:    
Attended TEQIP sponsored four-day workshop on “Recent Trends in Design and Precision Engineering”, National Institute of Technology Karnataka and Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, India, 9-12 December, 2013.
Attended TEQIP sponsored four-day national workshop on “Numerical and Experimental based Stress Analysis”, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, 16-19 December, 2013.
Attended one-day workshop on “Green, Clean and Lean manufacturing through Surface Engineering”, Central Manufacturing Technical Institute, Bangalore, India, 11th March, 2011.
Participated in International conference on “Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology”, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 29-31 October, 2010.
Participated in International conference on “Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering”, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India, 20-22 May, 2010.

Future Goals

Growth