About Him
Dr. A. V. Ramarao has spent majority of his life teaching Metallurgy to undergraduate students and research scholars besides also guiding the industry.
Along side his benefaction to academics over the past 50 years, he has also made some remarkable contributions to Research and Development activities in the field of Welding Metallurgy.
Academics
Dr. A V. Ramarao has a Doctorate in Metallurgy and has a strong technical expertise in the field of Metallurgy.
He completed his B.E. in Metallurgical Engg. in 1961 from Saugar University in Honours Division.
He is a Saugar University Gold medalist for standing first in the B.E. examination.
He completed his M.E. from Pune University in 1964, passing in first division with distinction.
He was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Nagpur University in 1977.
His Dedication
Prof. A.V. Ramarao has guided many Ph.D and post graduate students and has also enabled many highly inspired teachers. His love for Metallurgy is defined to be very contagious by many of his students.
He owes his gratitude to Prof. Khangaonkar (Pune University) who guided him for his Ph.D. The research work for his Ph.D was Solidification of Eutectic.
In year year 1989, he authored a widely used book on Engineering Metallurgy, with the assistance of his younger colleague Late Mr. R L. Vyas.
In 1990, he also published a book on Engineering Physics – Question and Answer way to enable First Year Engineering students.
Industry Contribution
Dr. A V. Ramarao, who retired as the Head of Department (HOD) of Metallurgical Engineering from VNIT (Nagpur) got numerous opportunities for his department during the time of service. He has a very unassuming style of leadership that has won many hearts in the academic community in India and abroad. His untiring efforts brought many research projects, international collaborations for teaching assignments and also grants for research activities.
Post-Retirement, he contributed as a Technical Director for Diffusion Engineers Limited (Nagpur) for more than a decade. During his tenure he enabled research and development activities for innovative technological developments in the field of repair welding.
His main contribution was developing Flux Cored Wires (FCW) and certain special electrodes used for repair welding of critical components in industries. Such products tremendously brought down the repair and maintenance costs in core industries.
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