Dr. Ravi Terkar

Awards

• NMIMS University Awarded ‘Best Faculty’ of Year ‘2013-14’.
• ‘Leadership’ appreciation award for successful process of ‘ABET Accreditation’ as a Head of Department in AY-2020 at MPSTME, NMIMS University.

Committees

• Former HOD Mechanical Department (2017-2020).
• In-Charge for B.Tech. Integrated Mechanical Program (2020-till date).
• Program Chair for ABET Accreditation (2017-2020)
• Board of Study Member, MPSTME, NMIMS University
• Approve Ph.D. Guide at NMIMS University
• Member of B.Tech. Integrated Admission and Discipline committee

Achievements

• Dr. Ravi Terkar, an accomplished academician and leader in the field of Mechanical Engineering, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. With a distinguished career spanning over two decades, he has consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence and innovation in academia and industry.
• Notably, Dr. Ravi Terkar was honored with the ‘Best Faculty of the Year’ award by NMIMS University in 2013-14, a testament to his exceptional contributions to education and research. Serving as the Head of the Mechanical Department at MPSTME, NMIMS University, from 2017 to 2020, he played a pivotal role in elevating the department’s academic standards and fostering a culture of excellence. In the academic realm, he has been instrumental in curriculum development, ensuring that students receive a cutting-edge education that is aligned with industry trends and demands. Furthermore, Dr. Ravi Terkar has actively contributed to the accreditation process, notably leading the ‘ABET Accreditation’ efforts as the Head of Department in AY-2020. His dedication to maintaining rigorous academic standards has been instrumental in securing accreditation and enhancing the reputation of the institution.
• Beyond academia, Dr. Ravi Terkar has made significant contributions to industry-academia collaboration and professional development. As a former Training & Placement Officer, he conducted over 611 recruitment programs and 110 joint recruitment programs with leading industry players such as Infosys, TCS, Microsoft, and L&T, among others. His efforts have helped countless students launch successful careers in the corporate world.
• Dr. Ravi Terkar impact extends beyond the confines of the university, with notable achievements in research and publication. His Ph.D. dissertation on ‘Exploring Product Cannibalization and Benefits of Remanufacturing’ has garnered recognition and was recommended to the Government of India for the development of the remanufacturing sector in the country. Additionally, he has published 60 articles in prestigious journals and conferences, further cementing his reputation as a thought leader in his field. Furthermore, he is actively involved in mentoring and guiding research scholars, with five students under his supervision. Two research scholars have successfully completed their Ph.D. under his expert supervision.
• In addition to his academic and research pursuits, Dr. Ravi Terkar is sought after as a speaker and expert in his field. He has delivered sessions on ‘Project Management and Scheduling’ for organizations such as L&T and Everest Industries Ltd., imparting invaluable knowledge and expertise to industry professionals.
• Dr. Ravi Terkar is also a respected figure on the international stage, having been nominated as a ‘Committee Member’ at various prestigious conferences held in France, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Italy, Korea, Georgia, and elsewhere. His global perspective and insights contribute to the advancement of knowledge and collaboration on a global scale.
• In summary, Dr. Ravi Terkar exemplifies excellence in academia, research, and industry engagement. His multifaceted contributions have had a profound impact on the field of Mechanical Engineering and the academic community at large, earning him widespread recognition and admiration.

Publications

Journals

1. Terkar, R., Mantha, S., Sen, A. (2006), Effective Strategies of Product Development Phase for product Cannibalization in Product Life Cycle Management, National conference on Design for Product Life Cycle. Feb. 17-18, BITS Pilani.
2. Terkar, R., Sunnapwar V., (2008), Concurrent Approach to New Product Development for optimum Product Life Cycle Management, MAP-EXCEL on October 16-17, 2008 at Institute of Engineers, Mumbai.
3. Terkar, R., Vasudevan, H., Sunnapwar, V. & Kalamkar, V. (2011), Perfect Product Launching Strategies in the Context of Survival of Small Scale Consumer Product industries, ICSTM 2011, CCIS 145, pp, 321-326, 2011, Springer –Verlag Barlin Heidalberg 2011. [Online] Available: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-20209-4_46
4. Terkar R. and Vasudevan H. (2011), Need for Product Cannibalization in Small Scale Manufacturing Industries through Product Life Cycle, International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE-2011), November 17-19, 2011 S.V.N.I.T. Surat – 395 007, Gujarat, India.
5. Vasudevan H., Kalamkar V and Terkar R. (2011), Product Cannibalization due to Remanufacturing and its Decisive Strategies. International Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing: Issues, trends and Practices, Bits, Pilani, November 10-12, pp. 13-18.
6. Terkar, R., Vasudevan, H., and Sunnapwar, V. (2011). Importance of Innovative Product Launching and Product Life Cycle Management in Small Scale Consumer industries. Number 3, (ISBN: 978-93-80746-62-5), International Journal of Computer Application. [Online] Available: http://www.ijcaonline.org/ictsm/number3/ictsm192.pdf
7. Terkar R., Vasudevan H. and Kalamkar., V. (2012), Importance of Remanufacturing Sector as a Secondary Market in India in view of Optimum Profit Life Cycle, International Conference, SPICON-12, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
8. Terkar, R., Vasudevan, H., Sunnapwar, V., Kalamkar, V. (2012), Remanufacturing Benefits versus Fear of Product Cannibalization: An Analysis of Recent Trends in Indian Context, IIT BHU, ICAM-2012, p.p., 341-346, December 16-19, 2012.
9. Vasudevan H., Kalamkar V. and Terkar R. (2012), Remanufacturing for Sustainable Development: Key Challenges, Elements, and Benefits. International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 3 no. 1, pp. 84-89. [Online] Available: http://www.ijimt.org/papers/202-CM026.pdf
10. Terkar R., Vasudevan H. and Kalamkar V. (2012). Importance of Closed Loop Supply Chain in the Product Recovery Processes such as Remanufacturing. Special Issue of International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622, p.p. 121-127. [Online]Available: http://ijera.com/special_issue/VNCET_Mar_2012/22.pdf
11. Terkar R., Vasudevan H. and Kalamkar., V. (2012), Importance of Remanufacturing Sector as a Secondary Market in India in view of Optimum Profit Life Cycle, International Conference, SPICON-12, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
12. Terkar, R., Vasudevan, H., Sunnapwar, V., Kalamkar, V. (2012), Remanufacturing Benefits versus Fear of Product Cannibalization: An Analysis of Recent Trends in Indian Context, IIT BHU, ICAM-2012, p.p., 341-346, December 16-19, 2012.
13. Terkar R., Vasudevan H. and Kalamkar V. (2013). Enhance the Productivity Trough Cost and Lead Time Reduction In Remanufacturing. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering & Technology (IJMET), Volume 4, Issue 2, p.p. 286-297. [Online] Available: http://www.iaeme.com/ijmet.asp
14. Terkar R., Vasudevan H. and Kalamkar V. (2013). Remanufacturing for Profitability and Green Growth Sustainability: A case study of Printer Cartridge Sector in India, International Journal of Production Technology and Management (IJPTM), Volume 4, Issue 1, [Online] Available : http://www.iaeme.com/ijptm.asp
15. R Terkar, H Vasudevan, V Kalamkar, V Sunnapwar, (2014), Exploring the Potential of Remanufacturing in Indian Industries for Sustainability and economic growth International Journal of Business Management & Research (IJBMR), Issue 1, 25-38.
16. Ravi Terkar (2014) Exploring Product Cannibalization and Benefits of Remanufacturing in the Context of a Remanufactured and its Counterpart New Product, NMIMS University, Vile Parle, Mumbai, India.
17. R Terkar, Y Ashish (2015), Optimization of Surface Roughness by Taguchi’s Method for Turning Process Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering 3 (5), 1115.
18. Ashish Yerunkar and Ravi Terkar (2015), Study of Important Element in Remanufacturing for Sustainable Development. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER) ISSN 1087—1090 Number 11.
19. Dr. Ravi Terkar (2015) “Read To Remanufacturing and Profitability” The Journal of AIMA All Indian Management Association, A Business Standard Publication Volume 54, Issue 03, PP-44.
20. S Naik, R Terkar (2016), A study on designing for sustainable product development in view of end-user role through remanufacturing International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCASP 2016)
21. Ravi Terkar, Nitin Panaskar (2016), Study of Joining Different Types of Polymers by Friction Stir Welding. Springer India, pp 731-739.
22. Ravi Terkar, Sawankumar Naik (2016), Role and significance of Visualisation in Product Design at Prototyping State CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future. Springer 2195-4356 & 2195-4364 (electronic) Vol. II & Pg no. 625-636.
23. Nishant Shirodkar and Ravi Terkar (2017), Stepped Recycling: The Solution for E-waste Management and Sustainable Manufacturing in India. Elsevier Ltd., Material today proceedings (Science Direct Online) : Proceedings 4 (2017) 8911-8917 Volume 4, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 8911-8917.
24. Dr Ravi Terkar and Nitin Panaskar, Sanjay Bokade and Prathamesh Potdar (2017) Review on Friction Stir Lap welding of Aluminium and Copper : Effect of process parameters, International Conference on Manufacturing Excellence (ICMAX – 2017).Department of Production Engineering of Nashik, ISBN: 978-93-24457-41-5, Page. 138-143.
25. Ravi Terkar and Nitin Panaskar (2017), A Review on Friction Stir Lap Welding of Aluminium and Copper. Elsevier Ltd., Material today proceedings (Science Direct Online): Proceedings 4 (2017) 8387–8393 Volume 4, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 8387-8393.
26. Dr Ravi Terkar Sresth Agarwal (2017), Exploring Manufacturing Assembly of a Miter Bend Section. IEEE, Advance Technology for Humanity and DRDO, isbn: 978-1-5090-6140-2, page. 41-45
27. Sarthak Agarwal and Ravi Terkar, Escalation of Efficiency of Electric Cars Through Alternators Coupled with the Propeller Shaft. IEEE, Advance Technology for Humanity and DRDO, isbn: 978-1-5090-6140-2, page. 127-131.
28. Ravi Terkar and Hadabrahma Dave (2017), Design of Speed Breakers to Increase Productivity through Static Energy International Conference on Quality. IEEE, Advance Technology for Humanity and DRDO, isbn: 978-1-5090-6140-2, page. 122-126.
29. Dr Ravi Terkar and Sresth Agarwal (2017), Review on quality control techniques used by automotive companies. IEEE, Advance Technology for Humanity and DRDO isbn: 978-1-5090-6140-2, page. 35-40.
30. Nitin J. Panaskar, Ravi Terkar July 2018, Analysis of Tool Design parameters for Friction Stir Lapwelding of Aluminium and Copper. International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Management ISSN: 2454-9150 https://www.ijream.org/IJREAM_V04I04.
31. Nitin J. Panaskar, Ravi Terkar, Sept 2019, Effect of process parameters on Defect Features and Mechanical Performance of Friction Stir Lap Welded AA6063 And ETP Copper joints. 08/2019; International Journal of Recent Technology Engineering, ISSN: 2277-3878 https:/www.ijrte.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i2S11/B11440982S1119.pdf
32. Nitin J. Panaskar, Ravi Terkar, 2019, Research the effect of process parameters on Friction StirWelded AA6063-ETP copper joint using Taguchi Technique. 08/2019; International Journal of Recent Technology Engineering, ISSN: 2277-3878 https:/www.ijrte.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i2S11/B11450982S1119.pdf
33. Siddique Mohd Umair, Sher Afghan Khan, Ravi Terkar, Rajesh Patil, 2019, “On Numerical Investigation of Nusselt Distribution Profile of Heat Sink Using Lateral Impingement of Air Jet”, NMIMS Engineering and Technology Review Journal. Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 107-119.
34. Srivastava, Kopal and Terkar Ravi and Siddique, Umair, Remanufacturing for Sustainable Development (March 31, 2019). Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and Management (SUSCOM), Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur – India, February 26-28, 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3363072 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3363072
35. Nitin Panaskar, Ravi Terkar, July 2020, Optimization of friction stir welding process parameters for AA6063-ETP copper using Central Composite Design, World Journal of Engineering, Emerald publication, ISSN 1708-5284,  https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/WJE-11-2019-0322/full/html Indexed in Scopus, Citescore by Scopus : 1
36. Nitin Panaskar, Ravi Terkar, 2020, Monte Carlo simulation-based prediction model for ultimate tensile strength of Friction Stir Welded AA6063-ETP copper joint. IOP Materials science and Engineering, ISSN 1757-8981, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/810/1/012057 .Indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Thomson Reuters, Citescore by Scopus : 0.6
37. Ahuja, V., Terkar, R. 2020, Remanufacturing Benefits: An Analysis of Recent Trends in Indian Context, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020, 810(1), 012068.
38. Kohli, A., Makad, H., Parekh, N., Sawant, D., Terkar, R. Comparative study and analysis of lower extremity exoskeletons Proceedings – 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems, ICICCS 2021, 2021, pp. 889–894, 9432151
39. Niranjana Sundararajan and Dr. Ravi Terkar, Professor 2022,” A roadmap to improving productivity in a fastener manufacturing unit by process optimization using ARENA” in the Scopus indexed, Science Direct, Journal of Materials Today Proceedings, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.04.265
40. Niranjana Sundararajan and Dr. Ravi Terkar, (2022), “Improving productivity in fastener manufacturing through the application of Lean-Kaizen principles” in the Scopus indexed, Science Direct, Journal of Materials Today Proceedings, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.04.350
41. Rehan Chopra, L. Sawant, D. Kodi, Dr Ravi Terkar (2022), “Utilization of ERP systems in manufacturing industry for productivity improvement” in the Scopus indexed, Science Direct, Journal of Materials Today Proceedings, Elsevier. Enterprise Management. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785322026955
42. Sushil Mishra and Dr. Ravi Terkar, Oct 2022, A Literature Review on Application of Lean Manufacturing Techniques as a book chapter in Recent Trends in Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/bookseries/11236
43. Naik, S. and Terkar R., (2022). Development of Model of Remanufactured Product Competencies, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering,7(1), 6893-6900 ISSN: 0974-5823 (Peer Reviewed, Scopus and UGC-CARE List Group II Listed Scopus Indexed Journal)
44. Naik, S. and Terkar R., (2022). Investigation of Remanufactured Product and End-of-Life Product Potentials from End-user Perspective, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering,7(3), 307-313 ISSN: 0974-5823 (Peer Reviewed, Scopus and UGC-CARE List Group II Listed Scopus Indexed Journal)
45. Naik, S. and Terkar R., (2022), Ranking Remanufactured Product Customer Criterion for Multi Life Cycle Strategisation, Journal of Tianjin University Science and Technology, Vol:55 Issue:02:2022. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/9D25T
46. Nilesh Balki, Dr. Ravi Terkar and Dr. Ashish Deshmukh, ‘Exploring Biogas Production from Biomass: An Experimental Review with Emphasis on Cow Dung as a Renewable Energy Source’, in International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid Mechanics and Nanoelectronics-(ICRAFMN-2023) on 12th July 2023.
47. Nilesh Balki, Dr. Ravi Terkar and Dr. Ashish Deshmukh (2024), ’Biomass as an Alternative Source of Energy and its Methods of Energy Conversion, page: 115-127, ISBN: 978-93-91044-51-0, Imperial Publications.
48. Dr. Ravi Terkar and Dr. Nitin Panaskar (2024),’ Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Friction Stir Welding, page: 1-25, ISBN: 978-93-91044-51-0, Imperial Publications.

Mentor for Patents:

1. MPSTME, NMIMS University, India. Sarthak Agarwal (B.Tech. third Year Student, Mechanical Department) Patent Application no. 201621043856 India Airless tyre tread design 22 Dec. 2016
2. MPSTME NMIMS University, India. Sarthak Agarwal (B.Tech. third Year Student, Mechanical Department) Patent Application no. 201621043975 India Sarthak Rapid Recurrence system 30th Dec. 2016
3. MPSTME, NMIMS University, India. Venkatesh Agrawal (B.Tech. third Year Student, Mechanical Department) Meet Pagariya (B.Tech. first year civil) Aditya Srivastava (B.Tech. third year EXTC) Patent Application no. 201721011362 India Mechanical Self-Closing Modular Internet Enabled Smart Docking System 30 March 2017