Academic Staff  
 

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Department of Design (DOD)

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Experience:
  • Over 15 yrs Product Design and Development Experience
  • 3 yrs Software Design and Development Experience
     

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Design
  • Creativity
  • TRIZ
  • Innovation on Ethnography published in Team tech Conference
     

Prakash Unakal  
B.Tech., M.Des.

Phone: 94484 76811

Professor and Head,
CM (PD and SDM)

email:  prakashunakal@msrsas.org

 

Channagiri
 

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Experience:
  • 26+ years of industrial and academic experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Product Design
  • Graphics Design
  • Architecture
  • Interior Design
  • Health Care and Environmental Design

Chennagiri Gopinath
B.Arch., M. Des.

Phone: 94496 56700

Professor

email:  gopinath@msrsas.org

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Experience:
  • 6+ years of industrial and academic experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Concept Development
  • Usability, Ergonomics
  • Sketching
  • HCI
  • Plays & Theater
  • Playing Badminton
  • TT, Cricket
  • Acting

Manas Ranjan Mishra
B.E., M.Des.

Phone: 98866 94494

Assistant Professor

email:  mrm@msrsas.org

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Experience:
  • 6 years of industrial and academic experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Design Management, Industrial Design and Digital Media Design
  • Design and Business Processes
  • Product and Process Innovation
  • Strategic Design and Development
  • Brand Development and International Marketing
  • Working with some of the top-most design institutes in India through internships and experience like National Institute of Design, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Onio Design, I stand with a unique advantage of understanding the various stages of design involvement and implementation in an Industry
  • Also, living the experience in various countries internationally has enlightened me; to open up to a bigger realm of design, deeper understand of design in general as well as design with management

H.S. Lohit
B.E., M.Sc. [Engg.],
M.Sc. Design Mgt. [France]

Phone: 94822 29184

Asst. Professor

mail:  lohiths@msrsas.org

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Experience:
  • 2 years of industrial and academic experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Design Research
  • Design Strategy
  • Idea & Concept Generation
     
 

M. Jayakumar
B.E., M.Sc.[Engg.]

Phone: 96327 22033

Sr. Lecturer

email:  jayakumar@msrsas.org

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Experience:
  • Over 35 years industrial experience in the areas of product design, engineering and manufacturing - with MICO and BPL

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Product design and development
  • Manufacturing engineering
  • Manufacturing management
  • Responsible for product development at BPL for over 25 years and successfully implemented many design and development projects from concept to production
  • Indigenisation of many models of plain paper copiers
  • Development of many models of Televisions receivers
  • Development of medical equipment – ECG recorders, Patient monitors, Defibrillators, Ultrasound scanner

M. N. Sudhindra Kumar
B.Tech., PG Diploma in Management

Phone: 98866 45679

Professor (PT)

email:  sudhindra@msrsas.org


akhil

 

 

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Experience:
  • 4 years of industrial experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Product/Industrial Design
  • Agricultural Equipments design
  • Designed a device to separate earthworms from Vermi-compost, for the individual project for M.Sc. (Engg)- 2009-2010
  • Was a member of the team to design and manufacture Vegetable cart for Bangalore city, for Group project exercise in M.Sc. (Engg).
     

Akhil R. Chandran
M.Sc. [Engg.]

Phone: 95382 22684

 Training Engineer

email:  akhil@msrsas.org

 

 

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Experience:
  • 4+ years of academic experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Developing model making studio and visual arts
     

L. D. Kalidas 
B.F.A., M.V.A.

Phone: 98803 47656

Design Associate

email:  kld@msrsas.org

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Experience:
  • 3 years of academic experience

Areas of Interest and contribution:
  • Graphic art and fine art field

 

 

D. William 
B.F.A.

Phone: 98806 96608

Asst. Design Associate

email:  william@msrsas.org