Dr. Kaushik Kumar, B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering, REC (Now NIT), Warangal), MBA (Marketing, IGNOU) and PhD (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 books, 12 edited books, 38 book’s 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. Divya Zindani, (BE, Mechanical Engineering, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota), M.E. (Design of Mechanical Equipment, BIT Mesra
