Name                           :           Dr.A.Saravanakumar

    Designation                 :           Assistant Professor

    Contact Details           :           Department of Aerospace Engineering

                                                      Madras Institute of Technology

                                                      Anna University

                                                      Chromepet , Chennai-600044

                                                      India

                                                                                     Phone: 044 – 22516334

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     Specialisation             :        Avionics

     Research                     :        Acoustic Guidance and Spacecraft Systems

• Education Qualification

   

  Sl.No	Degree	Institute/University	Year of passing
  1	PhD	Anna university	2015
  2	M.E	Anna university	2007
  3	B.E	Bharathidasan University	2000

   

• Experience

   

  Period	Post Held	Name of the institution	Nature of Duties
  From Dec'2009 to till date	Assistant professor	MIT	Teaching

• Additional responsibility held

  • Faculty Advisor to M.E students &B.E  (part time)

  • Class committee chairman for P.G & for U.G students

  • Syllabus committee member for M.E, Avionics

  • Department representative for  Institute-Industrial committee

  • Additional chief superintendent for end semester U.G examinations in the year October 2012

  • Chief superintendent for P.G examinations in the years April 2013,& April 2014.

  • Placement coordinator for the year 2012-13 & 2013-2014

  • NRI coordinator for the year 2013-14

  • Aeronautical Association in charge of year 2015-16.

  • PhD coordinator for the academic year Jan'2016-June2016

  • NIRF Coordinator

• Area of specilazation

  • Avionics

  • Acoustics Signal processing

  • Satellite  Systems

• Subject Handled

  • Elements of Satellite technology

  • Spacecraft Communication systems

  • Mathematical modeling & Simulation

  • Spacecraft Guidance and Control

  • System Engineering

  • Fault Tolerant Computing

  • Programming in ADA

   

• Previous Employment

  • Lecturer , Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tagore Engineering College, Chennai from November 2008 to December 2009

  • Lecturer , Department of Aerospace Engineering, Hindustan College of Engineering , Chennai from September 2007 to November 2008.

• Membership in professional organisations

  • Aeronautical Society of India

• Research Guidances

  • Number of M.E projects guided   :  50

• Current sponsored project

  •  "Design and Implementation of Solar Sail as Fuel Less Auxiliary Propulsion" (April 2016- October 2016), Project Cost : 25,000 & Agency : CTDT, Anna university, Chennai

• Sponsored project completed

  • "Joint time frequency analysis of Acoustic signatures of Electric MAVs" (November 2011-October 2012), Project Cost: 9,80,000 & Agency : ADE, DRDO, Bangalore.

  • Design & Development of Ground Control Station for LEO Satellite Operations" (April 2015-March 2016), Project Cost : 49,000 & Agency : CTDT, Anna university, Chennai

  • Study of fixed wing UAV dynamics using System Identification Approach" (March 2015- August 2015), Project cost : 24,000 & Agency : CTDT, Anna university, Chennai

• Program organized

  • Organized AAE Inaugural function in August 13, 2015 for the Academic year 2015-16.

  • Organized Teachers day & Kalam pledge function in the year September 5,2015

  • Coordinator & Organizer for  FLIGHT 16, a two day mega  technical symposium in the year March 11-March 12, 2016.

• Workshop/Conferences attended

  • Number of Workshops : 06

  • Number of Conferences : 04

   

• Lab setup developed

  • Developed a Ground Receiving Station facility for Low Earth Orbit Satellite operations. The total cost of the setup is Rs 49,000 & supported by CTDT, Anna university, Chennai.

  •  Developed a Microwave propulsion facility for small satellites attitude corrections. The total cost of the setup is Rs 50,000 & supported by CTDT, Anna university, Chennai.

  • Developed  of Microwave  wireless power transfer facility mainly for UAV systems

  • Developed  of Solar power tracking facility for small satellites power generation.

  • Developed  & successfully implemented to process Aircraft Acoustic signals. (Unique facility available only in MIT).

   

• Honors

  • Best paper session Award in ICRAMAV-2013, JNTU, Hyderabad.

  • Got selected for final round in National students space challenge Competition -2014, conducted by IIT, kharagpur.

  • Consultant to NSTL, DRDO, Vizag.

  • First person in India completed Research Degree in UAV Acoustic signal processing.

  • Received Operator License for LEO satellite operations from Government of India.

  • Best Innovative Project Special Award (2014-15) received from CTDT, Anna university.

   

• Publication

  Conferences: 09

   

     Journals: 06