Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, specializing in the research areas of Combustion, Bio-fuels, Au- tomotive Pollution, and IC Engines. He has extensive teaching experience of more than thirty five years in top engineering institutes in the country, namely, the Banaras Hindu University, University of Roorkee, NIT (Jalandhar) and IIT Madras. He is a former Director of the National Institute of Technology, Jaland- har, India. He is known for his passionate teaching of fundamental thermal subjects. He is extremely interested in Teaching Learning Processes and has taken a leading role in the activities of the Teaching Learning Centre at IIT Madras. He has been instrumental in organizing training programs for
a composite totality, so long as its constituents, its faculty membersand students, research scholars and administration imbibe a commonality of purpose,a corporate consciousness. The advancement in the field of information technologyhas given birth to globalization. In such a global scenario the role of the universitieshas to be redefined. Universities are no longer centres of learning, established inisolation from the main stream of social happening. The university will continue to bethe key institution, where fundamental research of knowledge has to be nurtured.II) FACULTY DEVELOPMENT : Faculty development means the process which is undertaken to bring aboutqualitative changes in the competence of individual faculty members in