Dr TC Manjunath
https://dsce.edu.in/academics/ug/ece
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
A brief biography about Dr. T.C. Manjunath, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay), Sr. Member (IEEE), Fellow (IETE, IE), CE
Dr. T.C. Manjunath was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on Monday, the 6th of Feb. 1967 & received the B.E. Degree (Bachelor of Engg.) from the Karnataka’s No. 1 Engg. College - R.V. College of Engg. (Bangalore Univ., Karnataka, India) in the year 1989 in First Class, M.E. (Master of Engg) degree in Automation, Control & Robotics from the prestigious 100-year-old Govt.’s LD College of Engg., (Gujarat Univ., Ahmedabad) in the year 1992 with First Rank (FCD) for the entire university and Ph.D. in Systems & Control Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) in the year 2007 respectively and worked on the advanced vibration control strategies for smart intelligent structures which were used in the aerospace engineering with practical implementations, leading to 30 publications in IITB during his Ph.D. tenure.
He has got a teaching (academic), research & administrative experience of more than 32+ years in various engineering colleges all over the country (Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra) and spent his entire career after graduation in the field of academics, research & administration only. He has worked in the levels of Lecturer-Asst. Prof. (>18+ yrs), PG Coordinator, Prof-i/c HOD-Prof. & Head (>5+ yrs), Director-Research, i/c Principal & as Full time Principal (9 yrs approx) in various institutions where he has worked so far across the country. Currently, he is working as Professor & Head of the Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engg. of the renowned 40-year-old Dayananda Sagar Group’s ‘Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering’ in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India since 5 years (approx), which is an autonomous institution. He has also worked as a Project Assistant and as a Research Engineer in the Systems and Control Engineering (IIT Bombay, India) and worked on vibration control of space launch vehicles in IITB during his research tenure for a period of nearly one year, a funded project from ISRO.
He has published more than 1000+ papers in various National, International Journals and Conferences in India & abroad (with 100+ Scopus SCI WOS IEEE Springer, Elsevier, etc…) and published more than a dozen textbooks (20 nos) with editions, notable among them being (‘Introduction to robotics’ - 1st edition, ‘Fast Track to Robotics’ - 4th Edn., ‘Fundamentals of Robotics’ in 2 volumes, Vol-1 and Vol-2 along with a CD which contains about 200 C / C++ programs for performing various simulations on robotics – 5th edition, ‘Examination Security System - Design & Development of Examination Mechanism Using Electronic Box’ from Germany costing around 49 Euros, ‘Microcontroller & Applications Theory’-1st Edn, ‘Basic Electronics’-1st Edn., ‘Computer Communication Networks’-1st Edn., ‘Optical Communication & Networking’-1st Edn., ‘Emerging Trends in Engg. & Tech.’-1st Edn., ‘Recent Advnaces in Engg. & Tech.’-1st Edn., ‘Recent Developments in Computing, Electronics and Mechanical Sciences’, ‘Contemporary Research in Electronics, Computing and Mechanical Sciences’-1st Edn., ‘Recent Developments in Engg. & Tech.’-1st Edn. He has also published a number of ‘book chapters’ in various edited books from renowned publishers (20 nos). He has also published a research monograph in the International level from the Springer-Verlag publishers (Europe) based on his Ph.D. thesis topic titled, “Modeling, Control & Implementation of Smart Structures”, Vol. 350, LNCIS, costing €114.39 Euros.
He is a member of 28 professional societies across the world. Some of them are …. a member of IEEE for the past 18 years (currently Sr. Member of IEEE), Sr. member of IIIEM, SPIE student member (USA) and IOP (USA) student member for 4 years, life member of ISSS-IISc (India), life member of additive manufacturing society of India (LMAMSI), life member of the ISTE (India), life member of ISOI (India), life member of SSI (India), life member of the CSI (India), Life member of IMAPS, Sr. Member of IACST (Singapore) and life member cum fellow of the IETE (India), AMSI, Life member of IAENG, Life member of Inspira Research Assocaition, Chartered Engineer from IE (I) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (FIE), Member of ACDOS - Automatic Control & Dynamic Optimization Society, Member of ACCS-Advanced Computing & Communications Society. He was also an EC & GC member of the IETE (Bangalore) for 2 years.
He has given (delivered) a number of guest lectures / invited talks / expert talks and seminars in many institutions across the length & breadth of the country and participated (attended) in more than 4 dozen CEP / DEP courses, seminars, workshops, symposiums (with certificates), besides conducting a few courses in the institutions where he worked. He was awarded with the “Best research scholar award in engineering discipline” for the academic year 2006-07 for the entire institute from the Research Scholars Forum (RSF) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). This award was presented in recognition of the significant contribution to the research (amongst all the researchers in all disciplines) in IIT Bombay, where he published 30 research papers (all of them were referreed ; 1-monograph from springer, 14 Journals-all refereed & free journals-abroad, 15 conferences). He is also a Sr. Typing (First Class with Distinction) specialist from the commerce institutes association of karnataka and a United Nations certified candidate along with 82nd position in the tenth standard merit list all over Karnataka. He is also an Hindi-Rastrabhasha (DBHPS) holder.
Also, he was conferred with the best paper awards (more than half a dozen times) in a number of conferences. He was also conferred with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Education Excellence Award, Global Education Achiever of India award, Rashtriya Vidya Gaurav Gold Medal Award & International educational excellence award (in recognition of sterling merit excellence performance and outstanding contribution for the progress of the nation & world-wide) from New Delhi in the year 2013, Global Outreach Research Award Recipients-2019 for his life time achievements in research (life time achievement award-2020) from ESNA & Global Outreach Foundation, all the previously mentioned awards was awarded w.r.t. his achievements in the field of education, overall life time performance, academics, administration & research.
He was also instrumental in getting a no. of Research centres (along with M.Tech. programmes & new UG programmes in the engineering colleges where he has worked so far as the administrative head. He was also responsible for getting AICTE grants under MODROB scheme for the development of the Robotics & Mechatronics Labs in one of the colleges where he worked. Apart from which, he has brought a number of grant-in-aid for the conduction of various events like workshops, conferences, seminars, projects, events, etc., wherever he has worked [from VTU, DST, IETE, CSI, IEEE, IE(I), DRDO, ISRO, VGST, KSCST, Vodafone, Uninor, etc.] from different sources. In the current college where is working as Prof. & Head, 60 research scholars are pursuing Ph.D. in R & D centre.
He has visited Singapore, Russia, United States of America and Australia for the presentation of his research papers in the various reputed international conferences abroad. His biography was published in the 23rd edition of Marquis’s Who’s Who in the World in the 2006 issue. He has also guided more than 4 dozen projects (B.E. / B.Tech. / M.E. / M.Tech.) in various engineering colleges where he has worked, apart from guiding a couple of research scholars who are doing Ph.D. in various universities under his guidance (6 Ph.D’s have already come out from VTU). Majority of the B.E. & M.Tech. works what he has guided were converted into research papers. Many of his guided projects, interviews, acheivements, the events what he had conducted so far till date have appeared in various state & national level newspapers and magazines (more than 100 times). He has also reviewed many research papers for the various national & international journals & conferences in India & abroad (more than 200 times). He has more than 100+ scopus indexed, web of science, IEEE, Elsivier papers along with more than 25,000 citations in the google scholar portal with more than 50 in h-index & more than 500 in i-10 index. He was also associated with NIRF works & ISO works in the DSCE w.r.t. his department and a number of other types of survey activities from reputed organizations.
He has also organized a number of state & national level sports tournaments like yogasana, chess, cricket, volleyball, etc. where he had worked as a employee. He is also an editorial board / advisory board / reviewer member and is on the panel of many of the national & international Journals as editor, reviewer, committee member etc... He has also served on the advisory / steering / organizing committee member of a number of national & international conferences in the country & abroad. He has given many keynote / invited talks / plenary lecturers in various national & international conferences and chaired many sessions, was judge, special invitee, guest of honor & was chief guest on various occasions.
He has also conducted / organized / convened / coordinated more than 300+ courses / Workshops / Training Programmes / Hands on workshops / Symposiums / STTP’s / FDP’s / Technical paper fests, Student level competitions, etc., in various engineering colleges where he worked so far. Till date he has given more than 1 dozen webinars on hot topics to various organizations in the world. He has also taken many administrative initiatives in the college where he has worked as HOD, Principal, PG Coordinator, Research Director & also where he is currently working as Prof. & Head in ECE Dept., besides conducting all the semester university exams successfully as chief superintendent, deputy chief superintendent, squad member, BOE, BOS member, etc. Some of the special administrative achievements as Faculty, HOD, Principal & Head of the Institution are ….
He improved the results of the various branches in Atria Inst. of Tech. / BTL Inst. of Tech. / HKBK College of Engg. / Dr. Ambedkar Inst. of Tech. / Nandi Inst. of Tech. & Mgmt. Sciences / Dayananda Sagar College of Engg. He gave more importance to the development of the in-house projects for the final year students & initiated the Project Open-Day, where all the final year students used to exhibit their project works on a single platform. He has also motivated many of the faculties to take up take up consultancy works & did it efficiently, so that the college got some good income (revenue generation scheme), besides sending large no. of students towards the internships (1000+) in various industries. He made the faculties to take up research (Ph.D) work or do M.Tech. by compelling them constantly to purse for higher studies as a part of the career enhancement project.
As an administrative head, he made the faculties to publish paper in either national / international journals & conferences at least one or two in an academic year. He started the student chapters (professional societies) in all the branches such as IETE, IEEE, ISTE, IEI, CSI, SAE, ISOI & also conducted a number of events under their banners, which were very much useful to the students & staff members. He brought in power decentralization by developing the habit of making coordinator-ships for various works, getting the work done by monitoring and following it up successively. He was also involved in TEQIP-2 & 3 process in Dr. AIT along with the development of many of the autonomy and world bank works & brought crores of rupees as TEQIP grant while he was the Principal in Dr. AIT.
He was also a BOS member & BOE member in the some of the university panels. He conducted a number of exams from the public sectors & private sectors such as GATE exams, CET / COMED-K, KPSC, TCS, Police Exams, Inst. of Civil Engineer exams & conducted a number of state & national level examinations like Defense, PG entrance exams, Medical, KPTL in the college where he had worked as administrative head, so that the college could get some revenue (under the banner of revenue generation scheme). He started the weekly monitoring of the staff & students by making the proctoring or the mentoring process very strong. He developed the counseling of student data booklets & that of the faculty work-diary, besides the monthly newsletter & the research bulletin (samshodhana saara) in all the places where he has worked.
All the laboratory manuals were developed in-house, printed & given to the students (both in the hard as well as in the soft copy). All the laboratory experiments were videographed individually & given to the students and put on the departmental portal also. The notes of the different subjects were put in the moodle server of the departmental portal so that the students could use it for their study purposes. He used to conduct the academic & governing council meetings regularly along with the HOD’s meetings & staff meetings time to time. He had looked after the NBA process (6 times) in Fr. CRCE, Atria IT, HKBKCE, BTLITM, Dr. AIT & in DSCE and got NBA in all the colleges mentioned previously. He has also looked after the NAAC process in DSCE and was the NAAC coordinator for couple of criterias. He conducted the prestigious 7th IETE ICONRFW & the 28th Karnataka State CSI Student Convention in HKBKCE. He introduced the scheme of best lecturer award / best HOD award / best non-teaching award / service awards concept / Principal cup / Departmental cup, etc. in the colleges where he worked as administrative head for the various staff members. He also conducted a number of national & international conferences in the colleges where he worked such as the NCECON-14, NCECON-19, SIETCON-17 & 18, ICRTEMP-20.
He created a record placement of more than 2000 students in Atria Inst. of Tech. / HKBKCE / BTLIT / Dr. AIT / NITMS / DSCE with the help of the college placement department & with the help of placement coordinators of the department and institution when he was working as the Principal & Head of the Department. He helped the management to fill up many of the student admissions in the first year of UG (B.E.) & in PG (M.Tech.) course by doing extensive marketing from different angles and sources. He created a number of hobby-clubs, start-up, e-club, EDC cells, Innovation & Incubation centres, centre of excellences in the institute for the staffs & students to work towards development of prototypes, models, and projects. He started the faculty seminar series in the institute so that every faculty gives a lecture of 45 mins with 15 mins discussion at least once in a month in many colleges. Many of the subjects were treated with project based learning in the autonomous colleges. He introduced many of the new subjects in the autonomous colleges such as 5G Communications, AI, ML, DL, AI & Robotics, etc.
He introduced the concept of coaching class/tutorial classes for weak students & remedial class concept for failed students, slow learners, which yielded successful results apart from the training of top 10 students for getting ranks. He made students to get university ranks in BTL & HKBKCE in the UG & in PG streams. He started the On-line courses, Certificate oriented courses of 1/2/3 months & 6 months for various types of people, especially on weekends. He made students to participate in competitions outside the college & win a number of prizes, brought laurels to the institution (brought awards, prizes & certificates from the students more than 50 times). He helped the students to get some financial assistance using sponsors for conducting the cultural events & other activities such as the workshops, FDPs & Conferences. He was on the panel of Local Inspection Committee (LIC) member of inspecting various engineering colleges of VTU a number of times & he is also a registered & recognized research supervisor in the Visvesvaraya Technological University & went as expert panel member for conduction of research interviews in couple of universities, faculty selection panel member for appointment purposes, etc…
He brought a project grant of nearly Rs. 4 crore till date in the various organizations where he has worked so far with help of faculties under various funded projects scheme such as DST, ISRO, KSCST, VTU, IEI, DRDO, VGST, AICTE, MHRD, etc…. along with a number of research proposals being submitted to various organizations. He developed the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Cell in HKBKCE & did a number of programs under its belt. He was responsible for some of the UG students of HKBKCE to make them establish a start-up company in the college itself by name ‘pentaP systems Inc’. He also developed a number of hobby clubs in the departments such as the ‘e-club’, which was used to conduct a large number of activies w.r.t. technical & non-technical problems. He made more than one dozen MOU’s with reputed firms & sectors with the college and utilized all the advantages of the signed MOUs with the companies, used the MOU banner to get projects, conduct seminars, conferences, workshops & FDPs.
He streamlined many of the process in the office level & that of the departmental level by developing new & newer formats for the smooth conduction of various processes along with excellent documentation. He underwent the one-week NUS-Leadership training programme in Singapore @ National University of Singapore (NUS), sponsored by TEQIP-II SPFU MHRD GOK DTE & Govt. of India in the year Sept. 2015 when he was the Principal of the Govt. Aided Dr. Ambedkar Inst. of Tech. in Bangalore. He developed the culture of making up of small / mini hobby projects by the students along with the development of a number of alternate assessment tools. He developed the systematic documentation of entire departments & that of the college as HOD & Principal. He also on many occasions made the students to work upon the project-based learning, i.e., whatever is taught in the theory, the same is carried out in practicals in few subjects. He conducted a no. of AATs such as Surprise Test, Seminar, Quiz, Role Play, Group Discussion, Case Study, E-Course Certification, Mini Projects, Developing Products, Building, Models, Paper Presentation, Poster Publication, Programming Contest, General Science & Technical Quiz, Hackathons, Demonstrations, Analysis, Optimization & comparison of theoretical concepts using modern tools.
He has got 50+ Patents from the Govt. of India & the Australian Govt., out of which few of them were granted & the rest published with the remaining in the process of granting stage. He also has got very good experience in the autonomous curriculum of the VTU course in the context of make up exams, fast track exams, supplementary exam and also got good ideas about BOS/BOE/COE, CIE, SEE, Curriculum Design, etc… as he has worked for nearly 5 years in the autonomous colleges. Under industry-institute interaction, he conducted a number of industry-oriented courses like CADD course, ANSYS course, PCB Designing course, Quadcopter course, IOT Course, Oracle course, Infosys campus connect courses (18 batches rolled out in HKBKCE), Software testing, etc.
His special areas of interest are - Control systems, DSP, AI, ML, Deep Learning, IP, PE, Robotics, Signals & systems, Smart Intelligent Structures, Basic Electrical Engg., Basic Electronics, Network Analysis, Vibration control, Instrumentation, IoT, Power Electronics, WSNs, Circuits & Networks, Matlab, etc...