Dr. Inderdeep Singh completed his Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) in 1998 from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur with Honors. He completed his Master’s and Ph.D. from the department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2000 and 2004, respectively. His doctoral research work was awarded by the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) as the ‘Best Industry Relevant Ph.D. Project’ during the session 2004-05. Dr. Singh is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. He has published more than 180 articles in international and national journals and conferences. He has authored a book titled Primary and Secondary Manufacturing of Polymer Matrix Composites and has also contributed 15 book chapters in the broad area of composite materials. His current research focus is towards developing fully biodegradable green composites. Dr. Pramendra Kumar Bajpai is an Assistant Professor in the division of Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi. He completed his Ph.D. from the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. His research areas include processing of polymer composites and green composites, machining aspects of composites, and FEM modeling of composites. He has published several research articles in journals of repute. He is currently working as an editor of two contributed volumes on processing of polymer composites.Dr. Kuldeep Panwar is currently working as an Associate Professor & Head of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at Delhi Technical Campus, Greater Noida. He completed his Bachelor ’s degree in Engineering from B.T.K.I.T, Dwarahat in 2009 and his Master’s in Thermal Engineering in 2012. He completed his Ph.D.in Mechanical Engineering from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar in 2016. His doctoral research area was analysis of thermal and resistance characteristics of fixed-bed regenerator with small D/dp ratio. He has published more than 30 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He has one design patent to his credit.
