Faculty

Professor Sham Gurav is a Professor of Practice at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has been working with for the last 6 years with several engineering institutes on developing incubation centres and promoting startups. He has done his Masters from IIT Madras and PhD from TU Delft, the Netherlands. He has worked with NASA and Lockheed Martin on a project for his postdoctoral work at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. He has worked in the aircraft industry in several areas such as aircraft wind design and analysis, engine and aircraft fuel systems at companies like GE, EATON, ATKINS and AOES in Europe as well as India.

He has founded a startup that works for developing innovative products for disabled people. The aim of this startup is to provide affordable and easy to use products in order to improve mobility of disabled people. These products involve Electric Vehicle technologies and recent advancements in it. He has developed a novel technology for using Fiber Reinforced Polymer-based manufacturing. He also helps actively startups for developing new ideas and converting them into market ready products. 

• Gurav, S. P., Langelaar, M. and Van Keulen, F.. Cycle-based alternating anti-optimization combined with nested parallel computing -- Part 1: method development, Submitted in Dec. 2006, Computers and Structures, in review.
• Langelaar, M., Gurav, S. P., and Van Keulen, F., Cycle-based alternating anti-optimization combined with nested parallel computing -- Part 2: application to non-deterministic shape memory alloy microgripper design, Submitted in Dec. 2006, Computers and Structures, in review.
• Gurav, S. P., Langelaar M., Goosen, J. F. L., and Van Keulen F., “Uncertainty-based design optimization of Shape Memory Alloy Microgripper using combined Cycle-based Alternating Anti-optimization and Nested Parallel Computing”, To be presented at the 6th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, ISSMO, Rio de Janeiro, May 30 - June 3, 2005, Brazil.
• Langelaar M., Yoon, G. H., Gurav S. P., Kim Y. Y., and Van Keulen, F., “Modeling and design of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators”, To be presented at the 6th IEEE EuroSimE Conference on Thermal, Mechanical, and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems, 18 – 20 April, 2005, Berlin, Germany. 
• Fatemi, J., Mooij, E., Gurav, S. P., and Van Keulen, F., “Re-entry vehicle design optimization with Integrated Trajectory uncertainties”, To be presented at the 13th AIAA/CIRA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, 16 – 20 May, 2005, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA) Capua, Italy. 
• Gurav, S. P., Goosen, J. F. L., and Van Keulen F., “Uncertainty-based Design Optimization of Structures using Bounded-But-Unknown uncertainties, Design Sensitivities and Parallel Computing: Application to MEMS”, Computers and Structures, Vol. 83/14, pp. 1134-1149, 2005.
• Gurav, S. P., Kasyap, A., Sheplak, M., Cattafesta, L., Haftka, R. T., and Van Keulen, F., “Uncertainty-based Design Optimization of a Micro Piezoelectric Composite Energy Reclamation Device”, 10th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Aug. 30 - Sept. 1, 2004, Albany, New York, USA.
• Gurav, S. P., Langelaar, M., Goosen, J. F. L., and Van Keulen, F., “Bounded-but-Unknown Uncertainty Optimization of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems”, Proceedings, Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 17-20, 2003, M.I.T. Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A.
• Gurav, S. P., Langelaar, M., Goosen, J. F. L., and Van Keulen, F., “Different Approaches to Deal with Bounded-But-Unknown Uncertainty-Based Design Optimization: Application to MEMS”, Proceedings, 5th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, ISSMO, Venice, May 19-23, 2003, Italy.
• Gurav, S. P., and Van Keulen, F., “Bounded-but-Unknown Uncertainties in Design Optimization by using the Multipoint Approximations, Design Sensitivities and Parallel Computing”, EUROMECH 442, Colloquium on Computer-Aided Optimization of Mechanical Systems, February 23-27, 2003, Erlangen, Germany. 
• Gurav, S. P., Vervenne, K., Damveld, H., and Van Keulen F., “Bounded-But-Unknown Uncertainties in Design Optimization by Combining the Multipoint Approximation Method and Design Sensitivities”, Proceedings, 43rd Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 22-25 April 2002, Denver, Colorado.
   

1. Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite
Reducing weight is very important in several applications, especially in Electric Vehicles for improving efficiency.  We are trying to use FRP material for reducing the weight of the structure. Using FRP in a conventional way has limitations when it comes to product manufacturing (mass manufacturing) due to the requirement of mould. We have developed a novel technology for producing FRP parts without using moulds. This technology is suitable for rapid prototyping as well as mass production. Additionally, we are innovating in sandwich structures for optimising the design by combining several materials with FRP.

2. Biomedical Devices
Supporting devices and implants are becoming more and more common due to problems in the lumbar region, near the hip joint and knee joint. We are carrying out research on the hip bone implant that involves biomechanical simulation of bone and tissues at the hip joint. This research would help understand load patterns in case of damaged ligaments, evaluate various design arrangements for fixing the hip bone by means of supporting implants and external devices that can help support while walking.

3. Electric Vehicles
We are exploring several areas in Electric Vehicles (EV) that can help improve the efficiency or usability of EVs. We are working on combined vibration and cooling of battery systems, mounting solar panels such that they undergo very little vibration, electrical braking and steering system which would be beneficial for Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGV) and design and manufacturing of chassis and components using FRP-based material.

Introduction to Composites
Manufacturing methods of Fibers and Resin
Micromechanics of a lamaina
Macro mechanics of a laminate
Failure analysis of a laminate
Design of structures using FRP

Design Innovation and Making
Learn Jobs-To-Be-Done: Empathy, Understanding customers
Learn how to be creative
Learn how to come up with innovations systematically
Learn to apply TRIZ technique
Learn how to build prototype and test it

Several other courses taught in the past are as follows:
Design Thinking
Innovation Tools
Finite Element Analysis
Vibration
Fatigue Analysis
Design Optimization
Engineering Programming using Python