Environmental Degradation and Surface Engineering

Prof. Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar is serving for the Department ofMetallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute ofTechnology Kharagpur as Professor. Her areas of specializationinclude the following: (a) surface engineering, (b) surface modification and coating technology, (c) advanced materials processing and (d) corrosion and environmental degradation. She is well known internationally for her research contribution in the field of Metallurgical and Material Engineering with focus on surface engineering and laser surface processing. She made fundamental contributions to a profound understanding of the metallurgy of rapid solidification of metals under the specific heat input of a laser source. Her works also concern a detailed structure-property correlation of laser surface modified metallic materials with a specific goal to improve certain engineering properties. She also stated a brief understanding of the mechanism of wear, corrosion and high temperature oxidation of the metastable microstructures developed in commercial metals and alloys due to laser processing. Extensive efforts were also made for the first time for the development of compositionally graded surface and nano-dispersed surface for thermal barrier and hot corrosion application by application of hybrid coating technology.

Prof. Indranil Manna, a JC Bose fellow and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Kharagpur, is an educationist and materials engineer with wide ranging teaching and research interests concerning structure property correlation and modeling in structural and functional materials including nanometric metals, laser/plasma assisted surface engineering, nano-fluid and bainitic steel. His work on amorphous Al-alloys, laser surface engineering of steel/Mg/Al alloys, and thermal conductivity of nanofluid are highly cited. His teaching interest covers subjects related to physical metallurgy, phase transformations, material characterization and surface engineering. Besides IIT Kharagpur (1985-present), Professor Manna has taught in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2000 01) and IIT Kanpur (2013-17). He developed two new courses (Surface engineering and Introduction to Engineering Solids) during his career. Surface engineering is available in SWAYAM platform. As an active researcher, he visited different renowned Institutions and Universities abroad like Max Planck Institute at Stuttgart, Technical University of Clausthal, Liverpool University, Nanyang Technological University and University of Ulm as a guest scientist. Prof Manna has authored over 250 journal publications and several patents, edited a number of books and monographs, supervised 25 PhD theses and over 30 sponsored projects worth over Rupees 200 million at IIT-Kharagpur and received several national/international awards and recognition.