R&D

• Supervised UG and PG students in the area of Kinematics of Machines/ Dynamics of Machines/ Production and Industrial Engineering as well as Tribology
• Involve in activities of Center of Advanced Studies and Research in Automotive Engineering.
• Involve in activities of Center of Advanced Studies and Research in Automotive Engineering.
• Developing Tribology Laboratory in the Mechanical Engg. Department.
• Supervising Seven PhD Candidates.
• Acted as Investigator of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India sponsored project “Development of an efficient biodiesel reactor for rural application and utilization of multi feedstock derived biodiesel in medium capacity diesel engine” along with principal investigator Prof. Naveen Kumar. The total grant sanctioned by the ministry is Rs. 20.92 lacs.
• Acted as investigator of PCRA sponsored project “Development & process optimization of medium capacity state of art biodiesel processing unit’ along with principal investigator Prof. Naveen Kumar. The total grant sanctioned by PCRA was Rs. 15 lacs.
• Acted as investigator of Yanmar Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan funded project “Performance & Endurance Tests on Yanmar 10 KW Diesel Generator set fuelled with neat biodiesel (B100). along with principal investigator Prof. Naveen Kumar. The engine was run for 10,000 hours on neat jatropha biodiesel to access the suitability of B100 application in existing design of diesel engine. The project is aimed towards development of biodiesel specific engine considering the outcome of the project.
• Research Lab. Development “Developing Tribology Lab. with very good facility for the research activity of Ph.D. level where different scholars from different institute are benefited and are continuously working.
• Award: Best paper award in International Conference of Advance Research and Innovation-2014

1.      Tribological Performance of Lubricating Oil Contaminated with Fine Dust Particles; Nishant Mohan, Mayank Sharma, Ramesh Singh, Naveen Kumar; SAE Technical Paper, 2014-01-2334. Doi: 4271/2014-01-2334.

2.      Tribological Properties of Automotive Lubricant SAE 20W-40 Containing Nano-AL₂O₃ Particles; ; Nishant Mohan, Mayank Sharma, Ramesh Singh, Naveen Kumar; SAE Technical Paper, 2014-01-2781, doi 10.4271/2014-01-2781.

3.      Analysis of Ball  Bearings under  Dynamic  Loading  Using Non-Destructive Technique of Thermography; R.C.Singh, R.K.Pandey, Rajiv Chaudhary, Ranganath. M. S., Himanshu Saxena; IJARI (International Journal of Advance Research and Innovation) Volume 2, Issue 4 (2014) pp 781-783.

4.      Experimental Investigation  of  Friction  and  Wear  Behavior  at  the Interface of Aluminium and Mild Steel; Ranganath M S, R. C.Singh, Rajiv Chaudhary and R.K. Pandey ; IJARI (International Journal of Advance Research and Innovation) Volume 2, Issue 4 (2014) pp 775-780.

5.      Failure of Piston in IC Engines: A Review; R. C. Singh, Roop Lal,  Ranganath M S and Rajiv Chaudhary, IJMER (International Journal of Modern Engineering Research) Sept., Vol. 4, Issue. 9, p 1-10; 2014.

6.      Experimental Investigations and Taguchi Analysis with Drilling Operation: A Review; Rajiv Chaudhary, M. S. Ranganath, R. C. Singh and Vipin in, pp. 126-135, Jan. 2015, Vol. 13 No. 1.

7.      Experimental Studies for the Role of Piston Rings’ Face Profiles on the Performance of a Diesel Engine fuelled with Diesel and Jatropha based Biodiesel; R C Singh, Rajiv Chaudhary, R K Pandey, S Maji; Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research; vol 71, january12; pp.57-62.

8.       Performance Evaluation of an Air Cooled Diesel Engine Fuelled with Neat Neem Oil and Diesel Blends. Journal of Biofuels, Vol. 3 Issue 1, January-June, 2012, pp.58-64.

9.      An Experimental Investigation with Biodiesel Derived from Multi-Feedstocks, of Indian suitability.” Rajiv Chaudhary, Naveen Kumar, S. Maji, P. B. Sharma, R. C. Singh and Ashish Karnwal, Journal of Biofuel, Volume-2, Issue-1, 2011.

10.  Improved Biodiesel Production from Feedstocks of Very High Free Fatty Acid and Process Optimization with Transesterification, Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Technologies, Volume-5, No.2, July 2011.

11. Enhancement in Performance and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine by Adding Alloy Nanoparticle, Akash Gangwar, Abhinav Bhardawaj, Ramesh Singh, and Naveen Kumar​, SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-2249, 2016, doi:10.4271/2016-01-2249.

12. Facile synthesis of higher manganese silicide employing spark plasma assisted reaction sintering with enhanced thermoelectric performance; Saravanan Muthiah, R.C. Singh, B.D. Pathak, Ajay Dhar; Scripta Materialia 119 (2016) 60–64.

13. Sliding wear behavior of aluminum alloy coating prepared by two-wire electric arc spray process; Dalip Kumar, Qasim Murtaza & R. C. Singh; Int J Adv Manuf Technol (2016) 85:237–252.

Invited Expert Talk/Lecture

India

• “Theory and application of Gyroscope” at Gwalier, MP, India
• “Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines” on line lecture at Delhi College of Engineering during session 2012, 2013 and presently 2014 for the students of G.G.S..I.P. University.
• “Metal Forming” on line lecture at Delhi College of Engineering during session 2013 for the students of G.G.S. I.P. University

Abroad

• Presented a paper on “Experimental studies for Accessing the influence of Micro-Dimple Area density on Tribological Performance of mating Contacts” in International Tribology Conference, October, 30 - November. 3, 2011 at Hiroshima, Japan.

• Membership or fellowships of professional bodies:

• LMIE,              Life Member of Institute of Engineers
• LMISME,         Life Member of Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers
• LMISTE,          Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education
• MSAE             Member Society Automotive Engineers
• LMSFST         Life member of Society for Fusion of Science and TechnologyM
• Executive Member     Institute of Engineers (Delhi State Centre) for PIE

• Administrative and Academic Assignments:

  1)    Member TEQIP-II

  2)    Acted as member of Exam cell.

  3)    OSD (academic).

  4)    Member of courses committee at FOT, University of Delhi.

  5)    Acted as member of Admission Committee – CEE.

  6)    Member of CCB.

  7)    Acted as Suptdt / Dy superintendent for various entrance exams.

  8)    Performed assigned duty in DUSU election.

  9)    OSD (academic) so coordinated to the Convocation to student 2006 in 2008 and initiated for the student 2007.

  10) Performed as Sector officer in Delhi Municipal Corporation election 2007.

  11) Dy. Chairman, departmental technical festival (Mechanical, Production & Industrial, Environment and Civil Engineering) INNOVA-2009.

  12) Acted as Member of Proctor Committee.

  13) Acted as expert member to B.Tech admission from Mechanical Engg.

  14) Acted as observer to ME-admission (Electronics Engg. Deptt.)

  15) Conducted training program to BE-Production & Industrial and Computer Engg. Students, ERC chairman and coordinator for many subjects.

  16) Organised and Conducted registration duty to mechanical Engg., and Production & Industrial Engg. Students.

  17) Did the stock register check to Electronics Department.

  18) Also did staff punctuality to Applied Sciences and central library.

  19)  Acted as acting Hostel Warden

  20) Member Sports Council

  21) Member, Central Library, DCE

  22) Member, Entrepreneurship Development Program

  23) Acted as co-coordinator for different short term courses held in MED.

  24) Acted as reviewer for proceedings in different conferences (national & international)

  25) Perform as a joint editor and co-author of proceedings and books.

  26) Acted as co-chaired the technical session of the conferences.

  27) Chaired the technical session of the conferences.

  28) Made myself available for any work assigned by department, institute or the government and did many confidential activities for Govt. of India.