DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DR. JOE KURIAN

Designation:Associate Professor
Qualification:

PHD: Organisation Behaviour  – Goa Business School, Goa University 

ME: Maintenance Engineering & Management  – IIT Madras               

BE: Mechanical Engineering –  Goa University

Experience :

Industry: 5years 6 months

Teaching: 22 years 6 months 

Areas of Interest :
Paradigm shift in higher education, Organisation Behaviour, Ability Groups in Higher Education, Personality Dynamics, Six Sigma Management
Email:
joe@pccegoa.edu.in

Teaching: 22 years 6 months

FEBRUARY 2014 – till date

Associate Professor, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering

  • Managed organisational transition as In-charge Principal and recruited staff to address strategic challenges.
  • Streamlined the teaching learning process as In-charge Head of Department with consistent high student feedback.
  • Institutional Head of National Programme of Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL Cell) promoting interdisciplinary competencies among students.
  • Head of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR cell) guiding students to protect intellectual property by using: Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, and Copyrights.
  • Collaborated with faculty in the departmental NBA accreditation process.

JANUARY 2010– FEBRUARY 2014

Assistant Professor, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering

  •  Appointed Principal of IGNOU Community College offering Associate Degree programmes and certificate courses for two year with responsibilities of staffing, mentoring teaching-learning processes, assessments and placements.
  • Guided projects in diverse domains of automation, special purpose machinery, alternate energy applications, energy efficiency studies, industrial efficiency studies and cavitation in pumps.

JULY 2005 – JANUARY 2010

Senior Lecturer, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering

  • Acquired teaching proficiency in undergraduate courses in Heat and Mass Transfer, Theory of Machines, Gas Dynamics & Turbomachineries and Fluid Power Control with good student feedback for all the courses taught.
  • Member of University Board of Studies, contributed to revising the curriculum.

JULY 1999 – JUNE 2005

Lecturer, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering

  • Taught undergraduate courses in Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Conversion, Automobile Engineering and Materials Management with consistent student feedback for all the courses taught.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Laboratory Co-ordinator budgeting capital expenditure for the department and purchasing equipment for Dynamics and Metrology laboratories

  Phil Corporation Ltd. 5 years 6  months  DECEMBER 1993 – JUNE 1999

  •  Quality Assurance Officer of the 636 camera project with process capability skills inculcated at the Polaroid Scotland manufacturing and Lead Assessor of ISO 9000 systems.
  • Production Officer of the M402 Camera project with vendor development responsibilities.
  • “Introduction to Self-Determination Theory: An approach to motivation, development and wellness”, 4 weeks June-July 2021 University of Rochester, @ Coursera
  • Introduction to Psychology 6 weeks February – March 2021 Yale University, @ Coursera
  • 14.74x: Foundations of Development Policy 10 weeks 2016 MIT @edx
  • Modelling and Simulation”,2 weeks,7th to 18th ,”GEC, Faramgudi, in”,”December, 2015″,”association with Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli.
  • “Model Thinking 10 weeks 2015 University of Michigan @ Coursera
  • Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the ‘Knowledge Economy 4 weeks May- June 2014 University of Wisconsin-Madison @ Coursera
  • History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education 4 weeks 2014 Duke University @ Coursera
  • Introduction to Finance 10 weeks October – December 2012 University of Michigan @ Coursera
  • History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,4 weeks,Jan-14,Duke University on Coursera.org Engineering Thermodynamics,2 weeks ,”11th -21st December, 2012.”,”ISTE workshop conducted by IIT Bombay at GEC , Goa”
  • Engineering Thermodynamics 2 weeks December – January 2012 IIT Bombay
  • Introduction to Finance,12 weeks,23rd June 2012 to 7th October 2012.,University of Michigan on Coursera.org
    Industrial Automation & Process Control ,2 weeks,8th to 12th November 2011.,Sesa Goa sponsored programme ISTE approved at PCCE
  • Finite Element Analysis with Ansys- Theory & Practice,1 week,3rd to 8th January 2011,ISTE programme at PCCE
  • Recent Advances in Fluid Power Control 2 weeks 2011 NIT Calicut
  • Mission10X 2 weeks 2010 WIPRO @ GEC
  • Data Analysis for Management Research 1 week 2008 IIM Kozhikode
  • Advances in Tribology and Maintenance 1week 2004 IIT Delhi
  • Staff development Programme,1 week,12th to 16th January 2004,”NITTR Bhopal conducted at PCCE, Verna.”
  • Recent Trends in Automobiles” during ,2 weeks,2nd to 13th June 2003.,AICTE-ISTE STTP organized by Annamalai University
  • Alternate Refrigerants and Cycles,,23rd to 25th August 2002., IIT Bombay and NCL Pune during
  • 37th World Management Conference,Panaji, Goa,Indo Global Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture inassociation with Confederation of Indian Universities,Transforming Engineering Education in India –A Situational Perspective on Quality,3rd December 2016
  • Studies in Higher Education Taylor & Francis Deconstructing Coping using cognitive influences on ability groups June 2019 10.1080/03075079.2019.1623773.
  • International Journal of Computer Applications,Foundation of Computer Science(FCS),Image Encryption using Key Matrix Generation and lossless Compression,Oct-13,ISSN:0975-8887
  • International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management,Springer,Development and Implementation of Maintenance management module of ERP in maintenance of Power Plant,Oct-13,DOI: 10.1007/s13198-013-0203-4
  • “Annual Convention of CSI vol I, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”,Springer International Publishing Switzerland,Real Time Collision Detection and Fleet Management System,Oct-14,DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-03107-1_73
  • Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer International Publishing Switzerland,Real Time Intrusion Detection and Prevention System,Oct-15,DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-11933-5_44
  • International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science,IJECS,Real Time Analysis using Hadoop,Jun-16,”ISSN: 2319-7242 Volume 5 Issues 6, Page No. 17096-17100″
  • International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing,IJESC,A Comparative Analysis of Decision Tree Algorithms for Predicting Student’s Performance,Apr-17,ISSN 2321 3361
  • ORACLE 10g,1 Week,Jun-09,PCCE,Chief Coordinator
  • Graphs & Algorithms,1 Week,Jul-11,PCCE,Chief Coordinator
  • Statistics: A tool for Decision Making”. ISTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme. PCCE 1week May 2016 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Co-ordinator
  • ISTE Membership ID: LM 63406,
  • ACM: ID: 2081363

  • Reviewer for Fourth Innovative Conference on Embedded Systems Mobile Communication and Computing held at PES school of Engineering Bangalore, 2009

  • Reviewer for Fifth Innovative Conference on Embedded Systems Mobile Communication and Computing held at PES school of Engineering Bangalore, 2010

  • Reviewer for International Conference on Frontiers of Computer Science, held at Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 2011.

  • Member of Board of Studies in Computer Engineering September 2018 – January 2021.

  • Member Secretary: IQAC
    SPOC : NPTEL
    Head : IPR Cell