5-Day Proficiency Improvement Programme

on

Automotive
Engineering
at

ARAI, Pune

(The Automotive Research Association of India)

14th - 18th July 2014

(for Private Circulation & Training only)

Organized by

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Index
1. Automotive Engineering................................................... 00
2. Automotive Testing & Certification................................... 00
3. Automotive Testing & Certification

International Type Approval Process................................. 00

4. I. C. Engine Design & Development................................... 00

5. Alternate Fuels................................................................. 00
6. Electric Vehicles and Test Procedures................................ 00
7. EMI/EMC Compliance....................................................... 00
8. Hybrid Vehicles................................................................. 00
9. Automotive Safety & Evaluation....................................... 00
10. Automotive NVH.............................................................. 00
11. Automotive Emission Legislation & Measurement............ 00
12. Emission Control & Aftertreatment Devices...................... 00
13. Automotive CAE............................................................... 00

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dr. K. C. Vora
Mr. V. N. Itkyal

Mr. Y. K. Upadhyay

Mr. R. M. Patil

Mrs. D. H. Morgaonkar

Mr. D. K. Prabhu

Mr. A. V. Jagtap

Mr. A. Y. Takhtar

Mr. D. B. Tope

Mr. M. R. Sarkale

Mr. Aniket Salunke

All ARAI Employees & Departments who contributed

for this programme.

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ABOUT SPEAKERS
Mr. Rajendra Bandal : General Manager & Operational Head for Type Approval
& Engineering at TUV Rheinland (India) Pvt Ltd. He has more than 2 decades of
experience in automotive testing, standardization, laboratory management &
planning. He represented in various government committees for standardization
of Motor Vehicle Regulations, particularly in photometry, component & vehicles.
Email ID : Bandal@ind.tuv.com

Dr. A. K. Prakash : Specialist Engineer at Eaton, Pune. He has about 20+ years
of experience in the field of system optimization through plant modeling
and embedded control system development for automotive systems, both
conventional & hybrid vehicles and mission critical defense systems. It also
includes research and academics in robust controls development. He has done
Masters and PhD in Systems & Controls.
Email ID : PrakashAK@Eaton.com

Mr. A. V. Mannikar : Sr. Dy. Director & Head of Safety & Homologation
Laboratory and Passive Safety Laboratory, ARAI, Pune. He has more than 25
years of experience in Automotive R&D mainly in Data Acquisition, Analysis &
System Evaluation for Safety & Reliability. He represents India on Passive Safety
at UNECE. He was responsible for building state of the art Bungee Sled Facility
at ARAI for evaluation of Seats & Safety Belts. He has keen interest in structure
for Injury Prevention, Anthropometry (Size India) & its influence in Safety and
Conflicts in Harmonization of Safety Standards.
Email ID : Mannikar.shl@araiindia.com

Mr. N. V. Karanth : Sr. Dy. Director & Head of NVH & CAE Lab at ARAI, Pune.
He has vast experience of 30 years in the automotive field like evaluation
of automotive vehicles for ride comfort, vibration characterization, NVH
Improvements on various noise sources in automobiles, noise pollution
control. He along with NVH team have evaluated various class of automobiles
to provide NVH solutions using both experimental and CAE techniques.
Published and presented a number of papers in various conferences on subject
related to Design and Evaluation Automotive NVH, Ride comfort and Durability
Evaluation of Automotive vehicles. Responsible for the Genset Certification
for Noise, as ARAI being one of the Certification agency in India notified by
CPCB. Successfully completed a number of projects for multinationals OEMs,
Automotive, Non-Automotive, Building Acoustic Manufacturers and Genset
manufacturers providing end to end solutions. He is the member of Standing
Committee of NCNPC (National Committee for Noise Pollution Control and also
the Member Secretary of GRB India Working Group on Noise, WP.29 of UNECE).
Member of Project Evaluation Committee-Technology Development Board
(TDB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and
Technology Govt of India.
Email ID : karanth.nvh@araiindia.com

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Dr. K. C. Vora : Sr. Dy. Director & Head of Academy at ARAI, Pune. He has his Ph.D.
from IIT-Bombay. He has a vast industrial & academic experience of 29 years and
has been associated with Walchand Nagar Industries, Emitec Emission Controls,
Mahindra & Mahindra and ARAI. He has specialized in the field of Automotive
Education, Technology Development Knowledge Management, Engine R&D
and Emission Controls. He was instrumental in starting ARAI Academy, which
conducts Graduate, Post Graduate and Doctoral Courses in Automotive
Engineering. He is the Advisor in various activities of SAEINDIA, under which
he conducts series of students activities like AWIM, BAJA & SUPRA SAEINDIA.
Email: vora.pga@araiindia.com
Mr. H. A. Nakhawa : Dy. Director at Emission Certification Laboratory at ARAI,
Pune. He holds a Masters degree in Heat Power Mechanical Engineering from
University of Pune and has been working with ARAI for more than 30 years in
various capacities. He handled various functions like formulation of regulations
and their implementation, approval of emission facilities and consultancy,
certification and homologation, expansion and establishment of new centers
like RCN (i.e. iCAT) and centers coming up under NATRiP project. Recently, he
has established a unique facility for nano particle measurement and developed
competency to provide the services for export homologation and R&D purpose.
He works on BIS various technical committees and principle member from ARAI
on TED2 technical committee. He is India delegate member represents in GRPE
under WP29 with active participation in various subgroups like WLTP, EFV, EPPR,
WMTC, NRMM etc. in formulating new global technical regulations and UN
regulations under Geneva 1998 agreement.
Email ID : nakhawa.ecl@araiindia.com

Mr. A. A. Deshpande : Dy. Director & Head of Automotive Electronics Laboratory

at ARAI, Pune. He is responsible for evaluation of automotive electronic
embedded systems for EMI/EMC, environmental conditions, performance,
etc. He worked on development of first prototype of electronic engine
management system for passenger car and also on development of number of
test instrumentation development systems / software for automotive industry.
He led establishment of state-of-art EMI/EMC test facility and evaluation test
facility for automotive electronic systems at ARAI.
Email ID : deshpande.aed@araiindia.com

Dr. S. S. Thipse : Dy. Director at Powertrain Engineering at ARAI, Pune. He did

his Masters in Thermal Sciences from Bradley University, USA and Ph.D. from
New Jersey Institute of Technology in the field of Alternative Fuels Combustion.
Presently, he is at ARAI, working on the development of Hydrogen, CNG & LPG
engines at Powertrain Engineering Department. He is an active faculty at ARAI
Academy and serves as a core member in the expert committee on Alternative
fuels of DST as a nominee of Director, ARAI. He is a Governing Board member
of SAEINDIA Western Section, life member of Combustion Institute, ISTD and
member of ISO TC 22&BIS TED-26.
Email ID : thipse.edl@araiindia.com

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Mr. S. S. Ramdasi : General Manager at Powertrain Engineering at ARAI, Pune.

He has done Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering In Design Discipline
also he has completed Master of Management Science in Management
Information Systems. Currently, he is doing Ph.D. from VIT University. He has
R&D experience over 20 years in ARAI, Pune. Presently, he is looking after engine
design centre at PTE, ARAI and responsible for execution of various projects in
design & development of engines, components & systems for meeting various
emission norms, strength, durability and structural dynamics requirements. He
has 2 patents on LPG fuel metering system and Gas air mixer for stationary
application engines.
Email ID: ramdasi.edl@araiindia.com
Mr. R. S. Mahajan : Dy. General Manager at Computer Aided Engineering
Laboratory at ARAI, Pune. His domain expertise includes CAE, Crash/Impact/
Drop analysis of automotive structures especially rollover of buses - and their
validation, linear, non-linear, contact, thermal, fatigue analysis of automotive
components etc. He has successfully executed number of developmental
projects in automotive as well as non-automotive fields using CAE analysis
software like HYPERWORKS, LS-DYNA, ABAQUS, NASTRAN, ANSYS and FE
Fatigue etc. He was also involved in developing CAE (software and hardware)
facilities and Drop test facility at ARAI. He has published and presented several
papers in national / international forums.
Email ID : mahajan.nvh@araiindia.com
Dr. S. A. Patil : Dy. General Manager & Head of Learning Center at Academy of
ARAI, Pune. He has his Ph.D. from University of Texas at Dallas. He has academic
and research experience of 16 years in the varied domain of speech under stress,
speaker variability under stress, adult-child interaction for language learning,
non-linear modeling of speech and driver distraction modeling. Recently, he is
in-charge of the academic activities at ARAI Academy.
Email : sapatil.pga@araiindia.com

Mr. M. M. Desai : Dy. General Manager at Automotive Electronics Laboratory,

ARAI, Pune. Presently he is responsible for Evaluation, Testing of Automotive
Electronics (EMI/EMC) and Certification, testing of Electric and Hybrid Electric
Vehicles. He is working with ARAI for last 12 years.
Email ID : desai.aed@araiindia.com

Mr. Mohammad Rafiq B. Agrewale : Dy. Manager at ARAI Academy, Pune. He

has done Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering In Thermal Discipline
and Bachelors Degree in Automobile Engineering. His area of specialization is
Automotive Testing & Certification, Automotive Engineering Systems and CFD.
Email ID: rafiq.pga@araiindia.com

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Schedule for 5 Day Proficiency Improvement Programme on

Automotive Engineering
Certificate Course

Day One: 14th July 2014

Start End
Subject
Lead

Duration
in Min

08.30

09.30 Registration

60

09.30

10.00 Inauguration & Welcome Address

30

10.00

11.00 Automotive Engineering

60

11.00

11.15 Tea Break

15

11.15

13.00 Automotive Engineering(Contd.)

105

13.00

14.00 Lunch

14.00

15.15 Automotive Testing & Certification

15.15

15.30 Tea Break

15.30

17.00 Automotive Testing & Certification

Dr S. A. Patil

Dr S. A. Patil

60

Mr. Mohammad Rafiq B. Agrewale 75

International Type Approval Process

15

Mr. Rajendra Bandal

90

Mr. S. S. Ramdasi

120

Day Two: 15th July 2014

09.00

11.00 I. C. Engine Design & Development

11.00

11.15 Tea Break

15

11.15

13.00 I. C. Engine Design & Development (Contd.)

105

13.00

14.00 Lunch

60

14.00

16.00 Alternate Fuels

120

16.00

16.15 Tea Break

15

16.15

17.00 Alternate Fuels (Contd.)

45

Mr. S. S. Ramdasi

Dr. S. S. Thipse

Dr. S. S. Thipse

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Day Three: 16th July 2014

Start End
Subject
Lead

Mr. M.M.Desai

Duration
in Min

09.00

11.00 Electric Vehicles and Test Procedures

11.00

11.15 Tea Break

15

11.15

13.00 EMI/EMC Compliance

105

13.00

14.00 Lunch

60

14.00

16.00 Hybrid Vehicles

120

16.00

16.15 Tea Break

15

16.15

17.00 Hybrid Vehicles (Contd.)

Dr. A K Prakash

45

Mr. A. V. Mannikar

120

Mr. A. A. Deshpande

Dr. A K Prakash

120

Day Four : 17th July 2014

09.00

11.00 Automotive Safety & Evaluation

11.00

11.15 Tea Break

15

11.15

13.00 Automotive NVH

105

13.00

14.00 Lunch

60

14.00

16.00 Automotive Emission Legislation & Measurement

120

16.00

16.15 Tea Break

15

16.15

17.00 Automotive Emission Legislation &

Mr. H. A. Nakhawa

45

Dr. K. C. Vora

120

Mr. N. V. Karanth

Mr. H. A. Nakhawa

Measurement (Contd.)

Day Five : 18th July 2014

09.00

11.00 Emission Control & Aftertreatment Devices

11.00

11.15 Tea Break

15

11.15

12.00 Emission Control & Aftertreatment Devices (Contd.)

Dr. K. C. Vora

45

12.00

13.00 Automotive CAE

Mr. R. S. Mahajan

60

13.00

14.00 Lunch

60

14.00

15.00 Automotive CAE (Contd.)

60

15.00

15.30 Written Test

30

15.30

16.30 Summary, Discussions and Feedback

60

16.30

17.00 Valedictory Function

30

Mr. R. S. Mahajan

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