Dr. Kaushik Kumar, B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering, REC (Now NIT), Warangal), MBA (Marketing, IGNOU) and Ph.D (Engineering, Jadavpur University), is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. He has 17 years of Teaching & Research and over 11 years of industrial experience in a manufacturing unit of Global repute. His areas of teaching and research interest are Composites, Optimization, Non-conventional machining, CAD / CAM, Rapid Prototyping and Quality Management Systems. He has 9 Patents, 23 Book, 12 Edited Book, 38 Book Chapters, 135 international Journal publications, 18 International and 8 National Conference publications to his credit. He is on the editorial board and review panel of 7 International and 1 National Journals of repute. He has been felicitated with many awards and honours. Chikesh Ranjan, (BE, Mechanical Engineering, Marathwara Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, Maharastra, India), M.E. (Design of Mechanical Equipment, BIT Mesra), presently pursuing PhD (BIT Mesra). He has over 5 years of Teaching and Research experience. His areas of interests are Product and Process Design, CAD/CAM/CAE, Rapid prototyping and Composites. He has 10 Books, 10 international journal and 4 International Conference publications to his credit. Prof. J. Paulo Davim received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes), Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years), from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University. He is EurIng by FEANI-Brussels and Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering ofthe University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master's students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities, in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious SCI-Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 100 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 200 articles in journals indexed in SCI-Web of Science core collection/h-index 47+/6500+ citations and SCOPUS/h-index 54+/9000+ citations).
