Prof Pulak Mohan Pandey has been appointed as director of Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology (BIET) Jhansi. BIET has proved to be the most preferred destination for aspiring technologists across the country. Pulak M. Pandey completed his B.Tech. degree from H.B.T.I. Kanpur in 1993 securing first position and got Master’s degree from IIT Kanpur in 1995 in Manufacturing Science specialization. He served H.B.T.I. Kanpur as faculty member for approximately 8 years and also completed Ph.D. in the area of Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing from IIT Kanpur in 2003.
He joined IIT Delhi as a faculty member in 2004 and is presently serving as Professor. In IIT Delhi, Dr Pandey diversified his research areas in the field of micro and nano finishing, micro-deposition and also continued working in the area of 3D Printing. He supervised 32 PhDs and more than 36 MTech theses in last 10 years and also filed 21 Indian patent applications.
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He received Highly Commended Paper Award by Rapid Prototyping Journal for the paper “Fabrication of three dimensional open porous regular structure of PA 2200 for enhanced strnegth of scaffold using selective laser sintering” published in 2017. Many of his B.Tech. and M.Tech. supervised projects have been awarded by IIT Delhi.
He is recipient of Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship (IIT Delhi) sponsored by Kusuma Trust, Gibraltar and J.M. Mahajan outstanding teacher award of IIT Delhi. His students have won GYTI (Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award) in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020 .
