Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) - Higher Education Management 

University of Bath, UK

2020 - 

Visiting Research Scholar - Postdoc

Post Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) – May 2012 onwards  

Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.    

Guide: Prof. Michael Morgan; Research Manager, AMTREL Faculty of Engineering Technology

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Mechanical Engineering – Dec 2008 

Pune University (Pune, India)

Master of Engineering (M.E.)

Mechanical Engineering – June 2002

Pune University (Pune, India)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Mechanical Engineering – June 1998

Pune University (Pune, India)

Director

July 2016 – July 2019

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India.

Principal

October 2011 – June 2016

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India.

Head of Mechanical Engineering

August 2006 – October 2011

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India.

More details: www.yogeshbhalerao.com

Dr. Yogesh Jayant Bhalerao is an academician, researcher and administrator par excellence. He is an enthusiastic engineering educator with adaptive styles of teaching, sizeable research experience, a rich depth and breadth of knowledge and excellent communication skills. As a champion of both administrative and academic excellence, Dr. Bhalerao has transformed engineering education for two decades.

A Fulbright - Nehru Scholar, fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (CEng, FIMechE), Dr. Bhalerao has been academically bright and a distinction holder throughout his schooling. His PhD degree in Engineering stands testimony to his passion for learning and research. In pursuit of excellence, he has successfully completed the Cambridge Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) with the British Council. Under Dr. Bhalerao’s leadership, the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) recognized all branches at MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India; 'A' Grade was awarded by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and the 2(F) and 12(B) status from the UGC. MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India was one of the first Engineering colleges under the Savitribai Phule Pune University (Former University of Pune) to be awarded with the ISO 9001: 2000 Certificate and engineering college to become autonomous under his leadership.

Dr. Bhalerao is closely working with educators, entrepreneurs, researchers across the globe and has visited leading Universities in US, UK, Europe and Asia for learning good practices. He has received notable grants and awards from revered funding agencies. During his career, Dr. Bhalerao has mentored 100 projects+ at the undergraduate level, 20+ postgraduate projects and 6 Ph.D. projects.

Dr. Bhalerao is a staunch believer and practitioner of Kaizen – also known as continuous improvement. By publishing research papers, reading relevant literature, attending conferences, reviewing for journals, online learning, organizing events, taking and conducting training courses, mentoring young professionals and engineers, delivering presentations etc., he keeps himself updated. By nurturing a generation of cognizant professionals, he believes he can remodel the future and foster collaborative change.

Academics: 23 years (Research Experience – 08 years)

Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Design   

August 2022 – 

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Design     

August 2019 – July 2022

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Director and Professor in Mechanical Engineering

July2016 – July 2019

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India

Principal and Professor in Mechanical Engineering

October 2011 – June 2016

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India

Professor in Mechanical Engineering          

October 2010 – September 2011

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India

Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering      

September 2005 – September 2010

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

May 2004 – September 2005

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

July 1999 – April 2004

Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India

Industry: 01 year

Logistics Engineer

Business Electronics Department

Philips India Ltd. Pune (India)

Research Grants

GBP 2500, BCUD, University of Pune

2007 – 08 and 2008 – 09

Project Title: Thermal Analysis of Surface Grinding Process

Project Status: Completed

GBP 40000, Young Scientist Award

Department of Science and Technology (DST) under FASTTRACK Scheme for Young Scientist

Project Title: Thermal Analysis of combined Face and Shoulder Cylindrical Grinding

Project Status: Completed

Patent Details - Published Indian Patents 04

List of Publications:

International Journals (Key papers) (22)

• Akhil Garg, Chaitanya Ruhatiya, Xujian Cui, Xiongbin Peng, Yogesh Bhalerao and Liang Gao “A novel approach for enhancing thermal performance of battery modules based on Finite Element Modelling and Predictive modelling mechanism” Journal of Electrochemistry energy conversion and storage, 1 – 23 (2019), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/electrochemical/article-abstract/doi/10.1115/1.4045194/1065644/A-novel-approach-for-enhancing-thermal-performance?redirectedFrom=fulltext

• Shilpi Bora, Yogesh Bhalerao, Ankit Goyal, D. Chakrabarti, Dezhi Chen, Nengsheng Bao, Xiaodong Niu, Akhil Garg “ Computation of Safety Design indexes of Industry vehicle operators based on the reach angle, the distance from elbow to ground and the popliteal height” International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 71 (2019), Elsevier publication, pp 155 – 164

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169814118302762

Impact Factor : 1.607

• Vaibhav J Hase, Yogesh J Bhalerao, Saurabh Verma, G. J. Vikhe Patil “Intelligent Systems for Volumetric Feature Recognition from CAD Mesh Models”, International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, Inderscience (2019) (Accepted)

https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijie

Impact Factor : 3.00

• C Ruhatiya, Surinder Singh, Xiaodong Niu, Thi Ngoc Hanh Nguyen, Van Hoang Nguyen, Van Man Tran, My Loan Phung LE, Akhil Garg,  Yogesh J. Bhalerao “Electrochemical performance enhancement of Sodium-ion Batteries fabricated with a novel cathode material: Experimental and Support Vector Regression-Simplex Algorithm approach” International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (2019), Elsevier publication (Communicated)

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-industrial-ergonomics Impact Factor : 1.607

• A Garg, Liu Yun, Su Shaosen, Ankit Goyal, Xiaodong Niu, Liang Gao Yogesh J. Bhalerao, Biranchi Panda “Recyclability Evaluation of Lithium-ion Battery Packs: A Comprehensive Framework coupled Characterization for Residual Energy Determination” International Journal of Energy Research (2019), John Wiley & Sons (In Press)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1099114x

Impact Factor : 3.009

• Mahesh P Nagarkar, Dr. M. A. El-Gohary, Dr. Yogesh J Bhalerao, Dr. Gahininath J Vikhe Patil, Rahul N Zaware Patil “Artificial Neural Network Predication and Validation of Optimum Suspension Parameters of a Passive Suspension System”, Nature Applied Science, Springer 2019 (Accepted)

https://www.springernature.com/in

• Mahesh P. Nagarkar, Yogesh J. Bhalerao, Gahininath J. Vikhe Patil and Rahul N. Zaware Patil “GA-based multi-objective optimization of active nonlinear quarter car suspension system—PID and fuzzy logic control” International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, (2018), Springer publication, pp 1-20

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40712-018-0096-8

Impact Factor : 1.082

• Sachin Ghalme and Y J Bhalerao “Application of Nanoparticles as Additive for Lubricant Nano-Materials in Tribology” Recent Patents on Materials Science, 2017, Review Article, Bentham Science.

https://benthamscience.com/journals/recent-patents-on-materials-science/

Impact Factor : 0.72

Citation : 2

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Integrated Taguchi – simulated annealing (SA) approach for analyzing wear behavior of Silicon Nitride” Journal of Applied research and Technology, (2017) Elsevier Publication 624 – 632. http://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-applied-research-technology-jart-81-resumen-integrated-taguchi-simulated-annealing-sa-approach-S1665642317300998

Impact Factor : 0.447

Citation : 1

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Wear loss evaluation of Silicon Nitride – Hexagonal Boron Nitride composite using Taguchi Method” JOJ Material Science, August 2017, volume 2, Issue 4, 1 – 5, https://juniperpublishers.com/jojms/pdf/JOJMS.MS.ID.555592.pdf

Impact Factor : 2.371

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Wear Performance Optimization of Silicon Nitride (Si3N4)-Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) Composite Using Genetic Algorithm (GA)” Recent Patents on Material Science, 2017, 10, 000-000

http://benthamscience.com/journals/recent-patents-on-materials-science/

Impact Factor : 0.72

• Sanjay S Patil and Yogesh Bhalerao “Selection of Dressing Process parameters by using TOPSIS technique for surface roughness of En-31 workpiece in CNC Cylindrical Grinding Machine” IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 178 (2017) 012033

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/178/1/012033/pdf

Impact Factor : 3.478

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Optimization of wear loss in silicon nitride (Si3N4) – hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) composite using DoE – Taguchi method” Springer Plus, 2016 5:1671, Published on 29 September 2016.

http://springerplus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40064-016-3379-7

Impact Factor : 0.447

Citation : 4

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Parameter Optimization in milling of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) using DOE-Taguchi Method” Springer Plus, 2016 5:1376, Published on 22 August 2016.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40064-016-3055-y

Impact Factor : 0.982

Citation : 2

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Modeling of wear performance of Si3N4-hBN Composite using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)” CiiT International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Systems and Machine Learning, Vol 8, No. 02, 2016 pp 62 – 65. http://www.ciitresearch.org/dl/index.php/aiml/article/view/AIML022016006

Impact Factor : 1.261

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Biomaterials in Hip Joint Replacement” International Journal of Material Science and Engineering, Volume 4, No.2, 2016 pp 113 – 125.

http://www.ijmse.net/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=51&id=131

Impact Factor : 0.67

Citation : 11

• Sachin Ghalme, A Mankar and Y J Bhalerao “Life Models in Rolling Contact Fatigue” Transaction on Control and Mechanical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 10, 2013 pp 380 – 384.

http://www.tsest.org/index.php/TCMS/article/view/227/143

Citation : 1

• Sachin Ghalme, Dr. Y.J. Bhalerao and A. Mankar “Effect of Lubricant Viscosity and Surface Roughness on Coefficient of Friction in Rolling Contact” J of Tribology in Industry Vol. 35, No. 4. 2013 pp 330 – 336. www.tribology.fink.rs/journals/2013/2013-4/9.pdf 

Impact Factor : 1.29

Citation : 14

• Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan, Akhil Garg, Yogesh Bhalerao, Chee How Wong and Kang Tai “Predicting the mechanical characteristics of hydrogen functionalized graphene sheets using ANN approach” Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, Springer Publication, 10.1186/2193-8865-3-83. Page 1 – 5, 2013. http://www.jnanochem.com/content/3/1/83.

H5index: 28

Citation : 23

• Akhil Garg, Yogesh Bhalerao and Kang Tai “Review of Empirical Modeling techniques in modeling of turning process” International Journal of Modeling, Identification and Control, Vol. 20, No.2, 2013. Pp. 121 – 129, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., UK http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=56184

Impact Factor : 2.14

Citation : 31

• Y.J. Bhalerao and Dr. S.R. Kajale “Thermal Analysis of Surface Grinding Process by using Design of Experiments (Part – I)” Technical Paper, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, USA. 2008.  http://www.sme.org/ProductDetail.aspx?id=46982

https://tdl.libra.titech.ac.jp/journaldocs/en/recordID/article.bib-02/ZR000000219314?hit=-1&caller=xc-search

• Pranita Shinde, Pramod Kothmire and Yogesh Bhalerao “CFD investigation on fluid flow analysis in fluid separator” Techno – Societal 2018, Springer Cham,  131 – 142

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-16962-6_14

International Conferences (Key Conferences) (15)

• Saurabh Deo, Katja Otto, Yogesh Bhalerao and Abhijit Malge “Engineering Design Concept Generation: The Effect of Concept Combination and Classification”, ASME 2019-International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference,  August 18-21 2019, Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim, CA, USA, (Accepted)

https://event.asme.org/IDETC-CIE

• Vaibhav J Hase, Yogesh J Bhalerao, Saurabh Verma, G.J.Vikhe Patil “Blend Recognition From CAD Mesh Models Using Pattern Matching” International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering And Nanotechnology (ICAMEN-2019), (Jointly Organized By Manipal University Jaipur and Universiti Malaysia Pahang, March 8-9,2019 Malaysia. AIP Conference Proceedings.

https://icamen2019.co.in/     https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5123951

• Vaibhav J Hase, Yogesh J Bhalerao, Saurabh Verma, Vishnu D.Wakchaure “Automatic Interacting Hole Suppression from CAD Mesh Models”, 4^th International Conference on Computing in Engineering & Technology,  January 9-11 2019, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Dr. B.A.T.U, Lonere and D.I.E.M.S Aurangabad.  (Accepted)

             http://www.iccet.co.in/index.php

• Vaibhav J Hase, Yogesh J Bhalerao, G.J.Vikhe Patil, Mahesh P Nagarkar “Intelligent Threshold Prediction for Hybrid Mesh Segmentation through Artificial Neural Network”, 4^th International Conference on Computing in Engineering & Technology,  January 9-11 2019, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Dr. B.A.T.U, Lonere and D.I.E.M.S Aurangabad. (Accepted)

            http://www.iccet.co.in/index.php

• Vaibhav J Hase, Yogesh J Bhalerao, Saurabh Verma, G. J. Vikhe “Intelligent Systems for Volumetric Feature Recognition from CAD Mesh Models” BDCC 2018 EAI: Big Data Innovation for Sustainable Cognitive Computing, December 14-15 2018, Coimbatore India. (Received Best Paper Award and accepted for publication in Springer)

http://bdcc2018.eai-conferences.org/

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-19562-5_11

• Mahesh Nagarkar, Y.J. Bhalerao, G.J. Vikhe Patil and R.N. Zaware “Multi- Objective Optimization of Nonlinear Quarter Car Suspension  System – PID and LQR Control

” Procedia Manufacturing, Elsevier Publication, Volume 20, 2018, Pages 420 – 427.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351978918300945#!

• Sanjay Patil and Yogesh Bhalerao “Ranking of vitrified grinding wheel parameters by using analytical hierarchical process (AHP) for surface roughness of work piece in grinding operation” IEEE International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems (AMIAMS 2017), February 3-5, 2017, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad, India. Proceedings 116 – 119.

http://www.mnnit.ac.in/amiams2017

• Sanjay Patil and Dr. Yogesh Bhalerao “Determining of optimum level (conditions) of dressing parameters for work piece surface roughness in surface grinding operation” International Conference on Advances in Tribology, 21st – 24th February 2014, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India, Technology Letters pp. 168 – 171. www.icat14.com/pdf/Programme%20Schedule.pdf
• Y. J. Bhalerao “Thermal modeling of Wet Grinding Process by using Design of Experiments” 20th National and 9th International ISHMT – ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, 4 – 6 January, 2010, IIT, Powai, Mumbai, India
• Dr. S.R. Kajale and Y.J. Bhalerao “Thermal Analysis of Surface Grinding Process by using Design of Experiments (Part-II)” at 19thNational & 8th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, JNTU, Hyderabad. January – 2008.
• Dr. S.R. Kajale and Y.J. Bhalerao “Thermal Analysis of Grinding Process” at 18thNational & 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT, Guwahati. January – 2006. www.iitg.ac.in/hmtc/asme_figures/abstract_status_a_to_m.pdf
• Y. J. Bhalerao “Thermal Analysis of Wet Grinding Process by using Design of Experiments” 5th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, 24 – 26 June, 2009, Rome, Italy
• Y.J. Bhalerao and Dr. S.R. Kajale “Thermal modeling of wet grinding process by using design of experiments” at 2nd International & 23rd All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference, IIT Madras, Chennai, December – 2008.
• Y.J. Bhalerao and Dr. S.R. Kajale “Thermal Analysis of Surface Grinding Process by using Design of Experiments (Part – I)” at SME International Grinding Conference, Dearborn, Michigan, Sept 25 – 28, 2007, USA.
• Y.J. Bhalerao and Dr. S.R. Kajale “Thermal Analysis of Grinding Process” at 5th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, Canmore, June 18 – 22 2007, Canada.

National Conferences: (3)

• Pramod Kothmire, Rochish Thaokar, Vinay Juvekar and Yogesh Bhalerao “Criticality of electrostatic boundary conditions in an Electro coalescence vessel” Research Scholars’ Symposium, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 18 February 2017.
• Pramod Kothmire, Rochish Thaokar, V.A. Juvekar and Y.J. Bhalerao “Dependence of Wall Boundary Condition on Electro Coalescence” 6th International & 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2016), Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. 15-17 December 2016.

ISBN 978-93-5267-408-4

• Sanjay Patil and Yogesh Bhalerao “Selection of levels of dressing process parameters by using topsis technique for EN-31 work piece surface roughness in CNC cylindrical grinding machine” 6th National Conference on processing and characterization of materials, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. 9 – 10 December 2016.

http://www.ncpcm-nitrkl.in/about-us.html

Chief Coordinator  

MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India co-hosted the national robotic contest viz. ROBOCON with Prasar Bharati – Doordarshan, Government of India. Member of the Asia-pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

Chairman

At MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India, led the Academic Council, Anti-Ragging Committee, Finance Committee, College Development Committee, Internal Complaints Committee, Grievance Redressal Committee, Students Council, Discipline Committee.

Champion - International Relations Office (IRO)

At MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India, steered International collaborations with prestigious foreign universities such as the University of Akron, The London School of Training, UK, University of Dayton, Boston University, Manchester Metropolitan University to name a few.

Champion - Industry Linkages

At MIT Academy of Engineering (MITAOE), Pune, India, strengthened ties with global leading brands such as Deliotte Consulting, Honeywell, Amazon, Ericson, Vodafone, Wipro, Infosys.

Dr. M.N. Morgan, AMTReL, General Engineering Research Institute, Faculty of Technology and Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK. Jointly working on thermal analysis of various grinding processes and mass finishing processes.

 Dr. Rochish Thakur, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai.

Dr. Akhil Garg, State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 516041, China

Heat Transfer

Numerical Methods

Finite Element Analysis

Strength of Materials

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Fluid Mechanics

Engineering Drawing

Design Thinking

Machine Design

Machine Drawing