KAMARAJU RAMAKRISHNA

Kamaraju Ramakrishna is a Senior Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam, India. He has over 25 years of industrial and about 20 years of academic experience in India and abroad. His last assignment in industry was as DGM (Projects) with many turnkey projects to his credit. He holds a master's degree from the IIT, Madras and was trained in Germany as a designer. He visited Finland as a lead in project management team and later served in Mekelle University, Ethiopia as a visiting faculty. He authored three technical books, Essentials of Project Management, Prentice-Hall (2010), Automobile Engineering, Prentice-Hall (2012) and Design of Machine Elements, Oxford University Press (2017). Presently he is working on a fourth book.He is a Fellow, Institution of Engineers (India), Chartered Engineer and a Member of Carl Duisberg Gessellschaft, Cologne, Germany.He also knows Telugu, Hindi, German and Sanskrit. He writes in Telugu and Sanskrit and is fond of classical music. Other pastimes are playing keyboard and mridangam.His future plans are for writing a set of twenty five crime stories in Sanskrit on similar lines for popularizing the ancient language. He has also plans to write a collection of short stories and a novel on contemporary social life.