Thoguluva Vijayaram
Bharath University
Dr. T. R. Vijayaram is a Senior Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Mechanical Engineering, BHARATH INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (BIHER), Chennai, India. He is an expert in the fields of materials and metallurgical, manufacturing, and mechanical engineering. He received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, followed by an M.E. degree in Industrial Metallurgy from PSG College of Technology, Bharathiyar University. He obtained his Ph.D. research degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. Afterward, he worked as a rector researcher in metallurgy at DCCI, Genoa University, Italy. His passion for academics, research, and education led him to obtain an MBA in Educational Management and an MA in Sociology from the University of Madras. He is also a chartered engineer (India) and a member of several professional and scientific bodies in India and abroad like ISTE (Life Member), IEI, IIF, and SAE (USA). He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, FIE, India. Recently, Dr. T. R. Vijayaram received the Distinguished Scientist Award in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering for his outstanding contribution to metallurgy. He has published more than 210 papers in international and national journals, conferences, broadsheets, and magazines. His areas of research include materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, manufacturing engineering, and mechanical engineering. He is also actively involved in research in the areas of metal matrix composites, polymer matrix composites, foundry technology, ladle metallurgy and molten metal treatment, metal casting solidification and simulation, special casting techniques, squeeze casting technology and computer simulation of casting solidification, new materials and process development (especially aerospace engineering materials), ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, powder metallurgy, NDT, materials characterization and mechanical testing of materials, heat treatment of metals and alloys, solidification processing of metals, alloys, and composites, microgravity solidification, die casting, die design, metallography, and microstructure-property correlation. For his work, he obtained one crore Indian Rupees in research funds from international research funding agencies.
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