Dr. Prabir Sarkar
Room 307, Phone: +91-1881-24-2151
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical Materials and Energy Engineering
prabir[AT]iitrpr.ac.in
Dr. Prabir Sarkar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he was working as an Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA. He completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in Design Creativity. He did his Master of Design also from IISc on Product Design and Engineering. He worked for Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) in the Research and Development division after completing his masters. Dr. Sarkar’s research interests include product design, sustainability, creativity, and design research. He is interested in developing new methods and tools for helping designers and companies to design novel, useful, and sustainable products, processes, and services.
Product design and Manufacturing
Design Creativity
Sustainability
Sustainable Machining and Manufacturing
Bio-mimicry in Design
Engineering Aesthetics
Industrial Design (practicing)
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2007
M.Des., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2000
B.E., National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, 1998
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, July 2016-present
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India, 2011-June, 2016
Associate researcher (Post Doc.), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA, 2008-2011
IISc Junior Research Associate, (Post Doc.), Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2007-2008
Development Engineer (senor design engineer), R&D, Bharat Earth Movers Limited, KGF, India, 2000-2003
1. Amit Patel, Prabir Sarkar, Himanshu Tyagi, Harpreet Singh, 2016. Time value of emission and technology discounting rate for off-grid electricity generation in India using intermediate pyrolysis. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Volume 59, July 2016, Pages 10–26. Elsevier. (I.F=2.4) (doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.03.001).
2. Sameer Gupta, Prabir Sarkar, and Ekta Singla, 2015. Understanding different stakeholders of sustainable product and service based systems using generic algorithm. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (CTEP), August 2015, Volume 17, Issue 6, pp 1523-1533,Springer (I.F.= 1.7).
3. Prabir Sarkar, Bhaanuj Sharma, and Ural Malik, 2014. Energy generation from grey water in high raised buildings: the case of India. Renewable Energy, Elsevier, Volume 69, September 2014, Pages 284–289 (I.F= 3.4).
4. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2014. Ideas generated in conceptual design and their effects on creativity, Research in Engineering Design, Springer, April 2014 (I.F= 1.5)
5. Prabir Sarkar and Amaresh Chakrabarti, 2013. A support for protocol analysis for design research. Design Issues, MIT Press, vol. 29, issue- 4, pp-70-81 (I.F=1.5).
6. Che B. Joung, John Carrell, Prabir Sarkar, Shaw C. Feng, 2013. Categorization of indicators for sustainable manufacturing. Ecological Indicators, Elsevier, Volume 24, January 2013, Pages 148–157 (I.F= 3.0).
7. Gyanendra Singh Goindi, Santosh Namdeo Chavan, Debaprasad Mandal, Prabir Sarkar, Anshu Dhar Jayal, 2015. Investigation of ionic liquids as novel metalworking fluids during minimum quantity lubrication machining of a plain carbon steel, Procedia CIRP. Special issue on 12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing – Emerging Potentials, Volume 26, 2015, Pages 341–345, Elsevier.
Patent: 1. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Prabir Sarkar, 2014. Method for Idea Generation for Creation of Product Designs, Indian patent application no.: 859/CHE/2006, patent grant no.: 258579, date of filing: 16th May 2006
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