Dr. Rinku Mukherjee

Associate Professor

Aerodynamics & Flow-Physics Laboratory

Applied Mechanics & BioMedical Engineering

Education

PhD(Aerospace Engineering, 2004)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

Dissertation: Post-Stall Flight Unsteady Aerodynamic Study and Gain- Scheduled Controller Design

Research Funding Agency: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA

Position: Graduate Research Assistant, 2001-2004

Advisor: Prof. Ashok Gopalarathnam

MS(Ocean Engineering, 2001)

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, WB, India

Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

Thesis: Development in computational methods for free-surface naval hydrodynamics and problems, bow-wave breaking and bow vortices generation

Research Funding Agency: Naval Research Board, New Delhi, India

Position: Junior Research Fellow, 1998-2001

Advisor: Prof. Debabrata Sen

BE(Civil Engineering, 1998)

Jadavpur University Kolakata, India

Civil Engineering Department

Experience

Academia

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Faculty, Applied Mechanics, Since 2007

Industry

MVSystems Inc., Golden, CO, USA

Staff Scientist, 2006-2007

Company manufactures rigid and flexible Thin Film Deposition Systems that include basic production lines to multi-chamber cluster tools. My responsibilities included the design and installation of these systems and system control over a RS232 serial port and Ethernet bridge (using Visual Basic to develop the HMI application and Opto 22 (Snap LCSX controller) and ControlLogix (L5561 controller) to configure and communicate with digital and analog I/O modules. Knowledge of PLCs.