Prof. Arindam Kumar Chanda has 24 years of work experience. He has over 15 years of teaching experience in B.Tech. and M.Tech courses at G. B. Pant Government Engineering College, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Gautam Buddha University, and other reputed technological institutions and 5 years of Industrial experience at Heavy Engineering Industries in the areas of Project Planning and Execution related to the manufacturing of Cranes, Excavator, Dragline, Mining Machineries, Steel Plant equipment, Railway Bogie/Wheelset, Flyover etc. He also has 4 years of Regulatory and Administrative experience at AICTE in the areas of planning, implementation, & maintenance of standards of technical education at National level.

Prof. Chanda has accomplished many leadership roles such as HoD(MAE), Dean(Academics), and other Academic/ Administrative positions at GBPEC and other institutions. He has guided Ph. D. Scholars of NIT & Central University in the areas of Production Engineering and also guided B.Tech/AMIE/M.Tech students in their Projects/Research. He has published research papers in the indexed journals and conference proceedings and has also chaired sessions in conferences and seminars. Prof. Chanda has delivered expert lectures in the Faculty Development Programmes and is an Expert Member in the committees of AICTE, NDDTC-AIIMS, and other Institutions. He is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), Member of Indian Society for Technical Education, Member of Society of Automotive Engineers, and Member of The Robotic Society. He has conducted Faculty Development Programmes and is a registered Mentor engaged in Mentoring of Faculties. He has also set-up Labs & guided students in extracurricular activities like SUPRA, Aero-design etc.

• Robotics; Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Production Engineering; Manufacturing Technology
• Industrial Engineering; Production Management
• Operation Research; Modeling and Simulation

Journal Papers:

Kumar, A., Angra, S., Chanda, A. K. (2021). Analysis of effect of honeycomb core cell size and sandwich panel width on the stiffness of a sandwich structure. Research on Engineering Structures and Materials. http://dx.doi.org/10.17515/resm2021.308me0606

Chaudhary, T., Siddiquee, A. N., Chanda, A. K., & Khan, Z. A. (2021). Multiple response optimization of dimensional accuracy of Nimonic alloy miniature gear machined on Wire Edm using Entropy Topsis and Pareto Anova. Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, 126(1), 241-259.

Kumar, A., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2021). Optimization of stiffness properties of composite sandwich using hybrid Taguchi-GRA-PC. Evergreen Joint Journal of Novel Carbon resource science and green Asia strategy, 8(2)

Kumar, A., & Chanda, A. K. (2021). Fabrication and analysis of evaporative water reclamation plant using wastewater from different sources. Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, 209-218. 10.1007/978-981-16-0159-0_19

Kumar, A., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2021). Analysis of the effects of varying face sheet thicknesses on different properties of a composite sandwich structure. Materials Today, Proceedings, 38, 116-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.06.114

Chaudhary, T., Siddiquee, A. N., Chanda, A. K., & Abidi, M. (2020). Multi-response optimization for Nimonic alloy miniature gear fabrication using wire electrical discharge machining. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 12(10), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814020967580

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2020). Evaluation of tool selection rules in flexible manufacturing system. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research, 31(1), 131-142. 10.22068/ijiepr.31.1.131

Chawla, V., Chanda, A., Angra, S., & Bonyadi Naeini, A. (2020). Coexistent scheduling in the tandem flows path configuration of a flexible manufacturing system by using an advanced grey wolf optimizer. Scientia Iranica, (), -. doi: 10.24200/sci.2020.54152.3618

Kumar, A., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2020). Analysis of the effect of varying core thickness of Kevlar honeycomb sandwich structures under different regimes of testing. Materials Today, Proceedings, 21, 1615-1623.

Chaudhary, T., Chanda, A. K., Siddiquee, A. N., & Gangil, N. (2019). Effect of different dielectric fluids on material removal rate, surface roughness, kerf width and microhardness. Journal of Brazilian Society of Mechanical Science and Engineering, 41(344), 1-10.

Chaudhary, T., Siddiquee, A. N., & Chanda, A. K. (2019). Effect of wire tension on different output responses during wire electric discharge machining on AISI 304 stainless steel. Defence Technology, 15(4), 541-544, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dt.2018.11.003

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2019). Material handling robots fleet size optimization by a heuristic. Journal of Project Management, 4(3), 177-188. 10.5267/j.jpm.2019.4.002

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2019). Automatic guided vehicle systems in the flexible manufacturing systems: A Review. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 26(5), 737-765.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K, & Angra, S. (2019). Effect of nature-inspired algorithms and hybrid dispatching rules on the performance of automatic guided vehicles in the flexible manufacturing system. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Science and Engineering, 41(391), 1-17. 10.1007/s40430-019-1894-5

Chaudhary, T., Siddiquee, A. N., & Chanda, A. K. (2019). Effect of process parameters on dimensional deviation of Titanium alloy miniature gear manufactured by Wire Electric Discharge Machining. 8th International Conference on Civil, Structural, and Mechanical Engineering CSM, IRED, Birmingham, UK. 10.15224/978-1-63248-170-2-05

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2019). Simultaneous workload balancing and travel time minimization of automatic guided vehicles. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1240, 1-8.   10.1088/1742-6596/1240/1/012001

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A., & Angra, S. (2018). Comparison and evaluation of job selection dispatching rules for integrated scheduling of multi-load automatic guided vehicles serving in variable-sized flexible manufacturing system layout: A simulation study. Management Science Letters, 8, 187-200.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A., Angra, S., & Chawla, G. R. (2018). Sustainable project management: A review and future possibilities. Journal of Project Management, 3(3), 157-170. 10.5267/j.jpm.2018.2.001

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2018). A clonal selection algorithm for minimizing distance travel and backtracking of AGV in FMS. Journal of Institution of Engineers(I): Series C, 100(3), 401- 410.

Chawla, V., Chanda, A. K., Angra, S. (2018). Sustainable multi-objective scheduling for automatic guided vehicle and flexible manufacturing system by a grey wolf optimization algorithm. International Journal of Data and Network Science, 2(1), 27-40.  doi: 10.5267/j.ijdns.2018.6.001

Chaudhary, T., Siddiquee, A. N., Chanda, A. K. (2017). On Micromachining with a focus on miniature gears by non-conventional process: A status report. Archive of Mechanical Engineering, LXV(1), 129-169.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2017). Scheduling of multi-load AGVs in FMS by modified memetic particle swarm optimization algorithm. Journal of Project Management, 3, 39-54.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., Angra, S. (2017). Automatic guided vehicles fleet size optimization for flexible manufacturing system by the grey wolf optimization algorithm. Management Science Letters, 8, 79-90. 10.5267/j.msl.2017.12.004

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., Angra, S. (2017). Multi-load AGVs scheduling by application of modified memetic particle swarm optimization algorithm. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 40(436).

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2017). Simultaneous dispatching and scheduling of Multi Load AGVs in FMS-A Simulation Study. 3rd International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications, Amrita University, Bangalore. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.10.339

Bandyopadhyay, S., & Chanda, A. K. (2016). Fuzzy probabilistic AHP on a multi-criteria supply chain problem, Journal of the Association of Engineers. India, 87(1), 49-58.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2016). The scheduling of automatic guided vehicles for the workload balancing and travel time minimization in the flexible manufacturing system by the nature-inspired algorithm. Journal of Project Management. 4(1), 19-30. 10.5267/j.jpm.2018.8.001

Hussain, M., Khan, U., Chanda, A., & Jangid, R. (2016). Fabrication and hardness analysis of F-MWCNTs Reinforced Aluminium Nanocomposite. Procedia Engineering. 173. 1611-1618. 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.12.262

Shihab, S. K., & Chanda, A. K. (2015). Multi response optimization of milling process parameters using MOORA method. International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering, 3(4), 67-71.

Chaudhary, T., & Chanda, A. K. (2015). Evaluation of the effects of green practices on the performance of Indian manufacturing industries using FAHP. Journal of Material Science and Mechanical Engineering, 2(10), 30-36. https://krishisanskriti.org/vol_image/17Jun20150506120___contents.pdf

Chaudhary, T., & Chanda, A. K. (2015). Evaluation and measurement of performance, practice and pressure of green supply chain in Indian manufacturing industries. Uncertain Supply Chain Management, 3(4), 363-374.

Bandyopadhyay, S., Chanda, A. K. (2015). A novel multi-criteria multi agent based routing strategy based on Tarantula mating behaviour. 4^th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications, NIT Durgapur.  10.1007/978-81-322-2695-6_37

Bandyopadhyay, S., & Chanda, A. K. (2015). A multi-objective distributed job shop scheduling problem: Solution by multi-objective optimization algorithm. Advance in Computer Science and Information Technology, 2(4), 398-401.

Khan, N. Z., Khan, Z. A., Siddiquee, A. N., & Chanda, A. K. (2014). Investigations on the effect of wire EDM process parameters on surface integrity of HSLA: A multi-performance characteristics optimization. Production and Manufacturing Research, 2(1), 501-518.

Presentations in Conferences/Seminars/Webinars:

Kumar, A., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2020, October 30-November 01). Analysis of effect of varying honeycomb core cell size and panel width on the stiffness of the sandwich panel [Conference Presentation]. 1st International Conference on Energy, Material Science and Mechanical Engineering (EMSME), National Institute of Technology Delhi.

Kumar, V. Chawla, Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2020, March 3-4). Optimum utilization of plates for flame cutting application [Conference Presentation]. National Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Kumar, A., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2020, March 3-4). Numerical modelling of sandwich structure having kevlar honeycomb core and Carbon – Epoxy face sheets [Conference Presentation]. National Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Rai, D., Pandey, A., Chaudhary, T., Chanda, A. K. (2020, March 3-4). Analysis and simulation of 6 robotic arms using RoboAnalyser software [Conference Presentation]. National Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2018, January 8-12). Evaluation of hybrid dispatching rules for simultaneous scheduling of AGVs in FMS [Conference Presentation]. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on New Frontiers in Engineering, Science & Technology (NFEST), Delhi Technological University, New Delhi.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2017, June 2-3). Evaluation of dispatching rules for integrated scheduling of AGVs in FMS [Conference Presentation]. Proceedings of National Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering (NCRAME), NIT Kurukshetra.

Chawla, V. K., Chanda, A. K., & Angra, S. (2017). Integrated scheduling of multi-load AGVs by priority hybrid dispatching rules in FMS-a simulation study. [Conference Presentation]. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Paliwal, S. P., Solanki, P., Soni, M., & Chanda, A. K. (2014, March 30). Parameter optimization of wire EDM for minimum surface roughness and kerf width using Taguchi method [Conference Presentation]. Proceedings of 4th SARC International Conference.