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Pratul Chandra Kalita
BE(Production)(NIT-Jamshedpur),MMM,Doing Ph.D from IIT-Guwahati
10 Years in Industry and Academics
Area: Operations & Marketing Research

Shri Pratul Ch. Kalita has done Production Engineering from NIT-Jamshedpur followed by a masters degree in Marketing Management from pondicherry university. At present he is doing his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati in the Department of Design.He started his professional career from Jamshedpuir Metal Treat Limited as a graduate engineer trainee and his areas of operations were: Implementation of QS9000/ISO9000 Standards, In process quality control, Implementation of statistical techniques in the shop floor, Conducting internal quality audits.

He joined British Oxygen Company ( India) Limited in may 1997 and worked till April 2001 as project engineer. His areas of operations were pipeline fabrication and erection, Technical and commercial evaluation of proposals, finalization of purchase orders, Material control ( SAP R3: MM Module). The following are the major turn key projects where he was actively involved:

" 1290 TPD Oxygen Generation plant for Tata Steel Jamshedpur
" 2 X 24NM3 Hydrogen Generation Plant for West Bengal Power Development Corporation, Bakreswar-WB

He is one of the founder members of Acumen Soft Technologies- Kolkata and his key areas were System Analysis & Design, Business development and Corporate strategy.Today Acumen soft Technologies is going strong in the path of success.

Shri Kalita is associated with AIM since June 2004 in the area of Operations and Quantitative methods. His special areas of interest are Marketing Research, Product Design & Design Management.

He is a visiting faculty of Assam Administrative Staff College, Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, Gauhati University, and Central Board of Workers Empowerment.

Shri Kalita is also the Institute Coordinator of NEPIF ( North East Professional Institute Forum, www.nepif.org).

Following are some of his recent research publications:

* Presented research paper entitled "The use of visual research method in the study of dishwashing process to identify the design need and idea generation" in the "Design Principles and Practices 2010" conference held from 13th February 2010 to 15th February 2010 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA (Design Conference 2010). The paper has been published in the prestigious international journal, "Design Principles and Practices, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.83-94"

* Presented a research paper entitled "Identification of Design strategy for cookware products in Indian multi cultural context" in the Seventh International Symposium of Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2008) held in Izmir, Turkey on April 21-25, 2008.

*Research paper entitled "Application of MRFSV tool to study effectiveness of marketing research findings in product design" has been accepted for presentation at the Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2011) to be held on 9th-10th September 2011 at the City University, London.

* Presented a research paper titled "Integrated design of Dipbahan- the eco- friendly tricycle rickshaw and its allied services." co-authored with A.K. Das Associate Professor, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati at the IX Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management in December 2005.

Shri kalita has written books in two volumes for Production and Operations Management course of BBA programme of K.K. Handique State Open University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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