NIT Rourkela | India
Dr Prakash Gulabrao Ranaware is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He earned his B.E. (Metallurgy) and M.E. (Physical Metallurgy) from the College of Engineering, Pune (Savitribai Phule Pune University), and subsequently completed his Ph.D. at the same institution in 2017. With a career spanning both industry and academia, he began as an Executive Engineer in a hot-rolling mill environment before transitioning into teaching and research roles at various institutes. His research interests include surface heat treatment of steels, centrifugal fluidization, severe plastic deformation, shot peening, nitriding and nanocrystallization, and transport phenomena in materials processing. He has published several peer-reviewed journal papers and holds a granted patent titled “A System and Method for Centrifugal Air Blast Shot Peening.” Deeply influenced by J. Krishnamurti’s philosophy on education, Dr Ranaware considers teaching a vocation of passion and purpose. He strives to cultivate curiosity and critical thinking in students while engaging in research and engineering projects that contribute meaningfully to society.
Featured Publications
Ranaware, P. G. (2025). Effect of thermal cycling on nitriding of Maraging Steel 18Ni-250. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance.
Ranaware, P. G. (2023). Effect of tempering temperature on laser transformation hardened 8620 steel. Lasers in Engineering.
Ranaware, P. G. (2022). Effect of severe plastic deformation on aging kinetics of precipitation hardening 17–4 stainless steel. Materials Today: Proceedings.
Ranaware, P. G. (2022). Thermal cycling treatment with pre-precipitation to improve aging kinetics of Maraging Steel C-250. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance.
Ranaware, P. G., & Rathod, M. J. (2017). Combined effect of shot peening, subcritical austenitic nitriding and cryo-treatment on surface modification of AISI 4140 steel. Materials and Manufacturing Processes.