Rupinder SinghRupinder Singh received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 from T.I.E.T Patiala, Masters of Technology (Production Engineering) in 2001 and Bachelors of Technology (Production Engineering) in 1999 from Punjab Tech. University. He is Chrtered Engineer by Institution of Engineers (India) and AICTE Young Teacher Awardee, DST Young Scientist Awardee, UGC Research Awardee. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh (India). He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience in Production and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in additive manufacturing, non conventional machining and casting. He has guided 22 Ph.D. and 102 Master's students as well as coordinated 19 financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for International research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many Indian universities. He is the Guest Editor for several International journals, books Editor, and Advisor for many international conferences. In addition, he has also published as author (and co-author) more than 20 monographs, 85 book chapters and 550 articles in journals and conferences (more than 300 articles in journals indexed in SCI (SCOPUS h-index:36+/5387+ citations). Read More Read Less