Pavan Pandit

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Monday, February 17, 2025

Professional Experience: 

- Post Doctoral Fellow at Gangwal School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), UP, India - 2024
- HDR Visiting scholar at Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication in association with Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia - 2022
- Project Associate in Process Engineering Services, Toyota Kirloskar Motors, Biddadi, Karnataka - 2017

Contact Details

E-mail: 

pavanp@nitk.edu.in
pvnpandit93@gmail.com

Mobile: 

+91 8971443128
Academic Background

Post Doctoral Fellowship
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras - 2025

Doctorate of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras - 2024

HDR Visiting Fellow
Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Areas of Interest

- Conventional and unconventional machining
- Micromachining
- Biomedical devices
- Microfluidics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Smart Manufacturing

Significant Projects

- Design and development of Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device.
- Design and fabrication of angiographic guidewire-catheters.
- Design and fabrication of polyermic biomicrofluidic device for ultrapurification of blood.
- Machining studies on abrasive waterjet machining of brass.
- Design and development of an automated guided vehicle for door assembly in Toyota Kirloskar Motors.
- Design and development of spinnerets for plant based meat.

Significant Publications

Journal Papers:
- P Pandit, Lingxue Kong, GL Samuel, “Design and fabrication of a polydimethylsiloxane device for evaluating the effect of pillar geometry and configuration in the flow separation using deterministic lateral displacement”, RSC Advances, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3RA06431J
- P Pandit, GL Samuel, “Hybrid machining of P20 die steel masters for the development of polymer- based microfluidic devices to study the effect of surface roughness on bacterial activity”, Journal of Micromanufacturing, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/25165984221148564
- P Pandit, GL Samuel, “Laser-assisted fabrication of Deterministic Lateral Displacement structures on P20 die steel masters for microfluidic particle separation”, Applied Physics A, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-06010-0

Conferences
- Prasanna S Abbigeri, Pavan Pandit, Niketh S, Shalini Singh, GL Samuel, “Flow Analysis and Fabrication of Micro Scale Controlled Surfaces by Ultrashort Pulse Laser for Microfluidic Applications”, 52nd SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 52, 2024) to be held in The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA from June 17-21, 2024
- Pavan Pandit, GL Samuel “Laser Assisted fabrication of deterministic Lateral Displacement structures on P20 die steel masters for microfluidic particle separation”, COLA 2021-22, Matsue, Japan, 23-27 April, 2022.
- Pavan Pandit, G.L. Samuel “Hybrid machining of P20 die steel masters for the development of polymer-based microfluidic devices”, WCMNM – 2021, IIT Bombay, 21-23rd September – 2021
- Pavan Pandit, S Srinivas “Study on influence of process parameters on depth of cut, surface roughness and abrasive embodiment in the abrasive waterjet cutting of unleaded brass”, COPEN’19, Indore, December 2019.
- Pavan Pandit, PP Revankar. “Numerical Study on aerodynamics of wind turbine blades”, International Journal of Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering ISSN 2348-0157, Vol. 03, No. 01, January 2015, pp 83-87.

Book chapter
- GL Samuel, Lingxue Kong, Y. Arcot, P. Pandit, “Principles of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Biomedical Devices”, Advanced Micro and Nano –Manufacturing, Springer Nature, 2022.

Patent
- Application No: 202241004133, titled “Fabrication of a portable miniaturized polymer-based microfluidic mems device for ultra-purification of blood”, granted on 16/11/2023 under the Indian Patents Act 1970.

Achievements

• Prof. MSS Endowment Award for the best PhD thesis related to development of a novel mechanical measurement technique.
• K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh fellowship, IITM ACR, to convert the PhD Thesis into entrepreneurship in 2023.
• Research grant of Rs. 2,00,000/- for development of polymeric devices for blood purification, by Innovative Projects, IITM.
• Travel grant of Rs. 2,00,000/- as International Immersion Experience Award, IITM-OGE, in June 2022.
• Student Award for presentation in World Congress for Micro and Nanomanufacturing, IITB in September 2021.
• Silver medal for master’s thesis.

 

Contact us

Dr. S M Murigendrappa

Professor and Head,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK),

Surathkal

P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangaluru - 575 025 Karnataka, India.

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