Dr. Rakesh Chandmal Sharma | Faculty | Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Rakesh Chandmal Sharma
Professor

RESEARCH AREA

Rail Vehicle Dynamics, Machine Design, Mechanical Vibrations

EDUCATION

  • Ph. D., IIT Roorkee
  • M.Tech, ITBHU, Varanasi

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Listed in top 2% scientists and researchers list provided by Stanford University California and Elsevier Scopus for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
  • Awarded by Indian Railway Technical Bulletin, Research Designs & Standards Organization, Lucknow for the best research paper (3rd Prize)
  • Awarded best paper award for “Challenges in railway vehicle modeling and simulations”, in International conference on newest drift in Mechanical Engineering, (ICNDME-14), Dec, 20-21, 2014 at M.M. University Mullana (Ambala).
  • Awarded best paper award for “Environmental impact of energy production and extraction of materials – a review during” 3rd International Conference on Aspects of Materials Science and Engineering” ICAMSE2022 organized by Panjab University Chandigarh on 04th – 05th March, 2022 at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
  • Qualified GATE Examination (1996) with 97.32 percentile. All India Rank-169

Dr. Rakesh Chandmal Sharma is working as a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun India. He received M.Tech. from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 1998 and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India in 2010. His research interests include vehicle dynamics, mechanical vibrations and machine design. He has 25 years of academic experience. Dr Sharma has published around 125 research publications in reputed international SCIE/ESCI/Web of Science Indexed journals. Dr Sharma is enlisted in top 2% scientists and researchers list provided by Stanford University/Scopus from last four years. He has 2960 Google citations with h-index 36, i-10 index of 78 and 2387 Scopus citations with h-index 32. Dr. Sharma is serving as Associate Editor and Member of Editorial board for International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems (Scopus indexed) since 2015. He has conducted three International Conferences as a Co-Convener/Joint Organizing Secretary in the past and published three Special Issues of the International Conferences as the Guest Editor of Scopus Indexed journal International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems. Dr. Sharma has Guided 1 PhD and 5 M. Tech candidates. Two Industrial design patents and two copyrights has been granted to him. He has contributed 8 chapters in books of Springer Nature publications. He has been awarded best paper award three times in National and International Publication. Dr. Sharma has represented the country in a couple of world congress on railway technology as member of editorial board held in Italy and Spain.