Dr. Rajesh S. Prabhu Gaonkar

Designation : Professor (on Deputation)
Broad Area of Expertise : Mechanical Engineering
Email : rpg{at}iitgoa.ac.in
Contact Number :
Address : Mechanical Engineering Department Goa College of Engineering Farmagudi, Ponda-Goa-403401
Educational Qualifications
- Research Fellow (Post Doctoral), Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS).
- Ph.D. (Reliability Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management (P. G. D. O. M.), Indira Gandhi National Open University (I. G. N. O. U.).
- M. E. (Industrial Engineering), Goa College of Engineering, Farmagudi, Ponda-Goa.
- B. E. (Mechanical Engineering), Goa College of Engineering, Farmagudi, Ponda-Goa.
Areas of Research
Fuzzy Set Applications in Reliability Engineering, Fuzzy Set Applications in Maintenance Engineering, Transportation Models and its Variants, Multi-Attribute Decision Making.Courses Taught
ME 206 : Manufacturing Processes IME 218 : Solid Mechanics Lab
ME 213 : Manufacturing Practice Lab
Professional Appointments
- Former Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Goa College of Engineering, Farmagudi, Ponda-Goa.
- Former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Goa University.
- Associate Editor of the International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management (Springer publication).
Recent Publications
- A. K. Verma, A. Srividya, R. S. Prabhu Gaonkar, Fuzzy-Reliability Engineering – Concepts and Applications, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 2007.
- Rajesh S. Prabhu Gaonkar, Min Xie, Xiuju Fu, Reliability Estimation of Maritime Transportation: A Study of Two Fuzzy Reliability Models, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 72 (2013), pp. 1-10. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801813002072)
- Rajesh S. Prabhu Gaonkar, Min Xie, Hong-Zhong Huang, Optimizing Maritime Travel Time Reliability, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment (Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M), Vol. 227, No. 2 (May 2013), pp. 167-176. (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1475090212460626)
- Rajesh S. Prabhu Gaonkar, Min Xie, Kien Ming Ng, Mohamed Salahuddin Habibullah, Subjective operational reliability assessment of maritime transportation system, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 38 (October 2011), pp. 13835-13846. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417411007147)
Recognition and Awards
- Recipient of Fellowship of the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (I.I.I.E.) in the year 2014.
- First recipient of Goa State Award for Meritorious Teacher in Technical Education for the year 2015.
- Recipient of Dr. J. M. Mahajan National Award of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (I.I.I.E.) for the year 2016-17.
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