Profile of the Week

Dr Surojit Gupta is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He is an active researcher in sustainable materials, high temperature ceramics and alloys, nanotechnology as well as additive and green manufacturing. He teaches fundamental and applied courses related to materials science and engineering. Dr Gupta holds 6 patents and has published over 53 technical papers, over 90 peer reviewed abstracts and/or contributed presentations, and one book chapter. Dr Gupta also has an h-index of 25. He won several awards including Du Co Ceramics Award, Chatwal Memorial Award, TMS Young Professional Development Award, Dean Teaching Professorship, Dean’s Award for the Best Faculty (2016), Global Young Investigator (ECD, ACerS, 2016), ASM/IIM Lectureship (2016) etc. He is member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Inc. Dr. Gupta is also a passionate educator and has supervised several graduate theses. As a young professional Dr Gupta he raised funding from National Science Foundation (NSF) for conducting Young Professional Network conference. Dr Gupta finished his doctoral studies from Drexel University and MBA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a postdoctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University. Also, he worked at Rutgers University.