R. Balasubramaniam

Professor, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering

Educational Qualifications

1978
Matriculation Certificate
Holy Cross Matriculation School
Salem 636 036, INDIA

1979
Pre-Univiersity Certificate (PUC)
Agarchand Manmull Jain College, Madras
Madras University
Madras, INDIA

1984
Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering
Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, 221005, INDIA.
Gold Medal

1990
Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180, USA.
Thesis Title: The Role of Hydrogen in the Stress Corrosion Cracking of a Binary Aluminum-                  Lithium and a Ternary Aluiminum-Lithium-Copper Alloy
Thesis Supervisors: Professors David J. Duquette and Krishna Rajan

Professional Training

Specialization:

1.  Material-Hydrogen Systems
2.  Environmental Degradation of Materials
3.  Structure-Property Co-relations in Advanced Materials
4.  Indian Archaeometallurgy

Laboratory skills:

1.  Mechanical and Electrochemical testing of materials
2.  Computer Aided Experimentation
3.  Operation of Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopes.

Computer languages:

           BASIC, PASCAL, FORTRAN, C, Java, HTML

Computer software:

           UNIX, WINDOWS, MS Office, LaTeX, other word processing software.

Professional Training

Adjunct Faculty
August 1989 - May 1990
Materials Engineering Department,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA.

Duties: Instructor for the core compulsory course `Materials I' offered to second year engineering students. Taught three sections (105 students), examined and graded their efforts. Fall 89 and Spring (90 students).

Assistant Professor Jul 1990 - May 1997
Associate Professor May 1997 - September 2001
Professor
Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate Teaching

1989 Fall       Instructor, Materials I, RPI, USA, 35 students
1990 Spring   Instructor, Materials I, RPI, USA, 35 + 35 students
1990 Fall       Tutor, Manufacturing Processes, 30 students
1991 Spring   Instructor, Metallic Corrosion and Its Prevention, 29 students
1991 Spring   Tutor, Nature and Properties of Materials, 30 students
1991 Fall       Instructor-in-charge, Nature and Properties of Materials,
                                                     135 students
1992 Spring   Instructor, Metallic Corrosion and Its Prevention, 29 students
1993 Spring   Instructor, Metallic Corrosion and Its Prevention, 31 students
1994 Spring   Instructor, Nuclear Materials, 12 students
1994 Fall       Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering
                                                  (revised curriculum) 40 students
1995 Fall       Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 35 students
1997 Spring   Tutor, Mechanics of Solids, 28 students
1998 Fall       Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 37 students
1998 Fall,      Tutor, Nature and Properties of Materials, 33 students
1999 Fall       Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 39 students
2000 Spring   Instructor, Nature and Properties of Materials, 102 students
2000 Fall       Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 44 students
2001 Fall       Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 42 students
2002 Spring   Instructor, Introduction to Metallurgical and Materials 
                                                    Engineering Profession, 47 students
2002 Fall        Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 54 students
2003 Spring    Instructor, Surface Coatings Technology, 55 students
2003 Fall        Instructor, Corrosion Science and Engineering, 45 students
2004 Spring    Instructor, Introduction to Metallurgical and Materials 
                                                   Engineering Profession, 45 students
2004 Fall        Instructor, Surface Coatings Technology, 19 students
2005 Fall        Instructor, Nature and Properties of Materials, 119 students
2006 Spring   Instructor, Degradation of Materials and Its Prevention,
                                                   42 students
2007 Spring   Instructor, Degradation of Materials and Its Prevention,
                                                   45 students
2007 Fall        Instructor, Mechanical Properties of Materials, 48 students
2008 Spring   Instructor, Degradation of Materials and Its Prevention,
                                                   54 students
2008 Falll        Instructor, Mechanical Properties of Materials, 55 students
2009 Spring   Instructor, History of Science and Technology of Metallurgy,
                                                   33 students

 Postgraduate Teaching

1990 Fall        Instructor, Physical Metallurgy for Non-Metallurgists
                                                   2 students
1992 Fall        Instructor, High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion,
                                                   17 students
1993 Fall        Instructor, High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion,
                                                   12 students
1994 Spring    Instructor, Nuclear Materials, 6 students
1996 Spring    Instructor, High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion,
                                                   9 students
1996 Fall        Instructor, Physical Metallurgy for Non-Metallurgists,
                                                   3 students
1997 Spring    Co-Instructor, Physiochemical Behaviour of Materials at High
                                                Temperatures, 16 students
1999 Spring    Instructor, Physiochemical Behaviour of Materials at High
                                                Temperatures, 17 students
2001 Spring    Instructor, Physiochemical Behaviour of Materials at High
                                                Temperatures, 21 students
2004 Spring    Instructor, Physiochemical Behaviour of Materials at High
                                                Temperatures, 20 students
2005 Spring    Instructor, Physiochemical Behaviour of Materials at High
                                                Temperatures, 22 students
2006 Fall        Instructor, Physiochemical Behaviour of Materials at High
                                                Temperatures, 13 students

Miscellaneous

1992    Development and implementation of new course
            HIGH TEMPERATURE OXIDATION AND CORROSION

1994    Development and revision of course
            CORROSION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

1996    February 12-16
            Coordinator for Short Term Course for industrial engineers on
            CORROSION AND ITS PREVENTION

1996    November 25-29
            Coordinator for Short Term Course for industrial engineers on
            CORROSION AND ITS PREVENTION

2009    February 16-21
           Coordinator for Short Term Course for ASI Conservators on
            ARCHAEOMATERIALS

Research Experience

July 1990 to present
Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016, INDIA

Feb 1995 to July 1995 (BOYSCAST Fellowship)
Department of Chemistry
University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

Aug 1997 to July 1998 (Humboldt Fellowship)
Institute of Materialphysics
University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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