Rudra Pratap is an Indian academician and the vice-chancellor of

Plaksha University Plaksha University is a not-for-profit private research university located in Mohali, Punjab, India. It is set up by a group of over 60 business leaders and technology entrepreneurs with a mission to create a new model of higher education that ...

Mohali Mohali, officially known as Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, is a planned city in the Mohali district in Punjab (India), Punjab, India, which is an administrative and a commercial hub lying south-west of Chandigarh. It is the headquarters of the Moh ...

. Previously, he was a professor of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

at the

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute wa ...

(IISc),

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. Among other research interests, he works in the field of

Microelectromechanical systems Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, ...

(MEMS) and used to head India's first research lab in the field of

, the CranesSci MEMS Lab at

, Bangalore. His book on MATLAB ''Getting Started with MATLAB 7'' is popular among the students of engineering. He is also the Chair for the Centre of Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE). Pratap is an Associate Editor of Shock and Vibration Journal which publishes articles on various aspects of shocks and vibration including vibration measurements, vibration condition monitoring, shock hardening, fluid-structure interaction, impact biodynamics, vehicle dynamics, and gun dynamics.

Education and work

Pratap obtained his

B.Tech A Bachelor of Technology (Latin ''Baccalaureus Technologiae'', commonly abbreviated as B.Tech. or BTech; with honours as B.Tech. (Hons.)) is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after the completion of a three to five-year program of studi ...

from the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in the year 1985. He then obtained his MS from

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

, Tucson in the year 1987 followed by PhD from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

, Ithaca in the year 1993. He joined

in the year 1996.

Books authored

* ''Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers'',

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 2005. * ''Introduction to Statics and Dynamics'', with Andy Ruina, Oxford University Press, 2002.Introduction to Statics and Dynamics
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References

External links

* ttp://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/12/05/stories/2005120502230200.htm Lack of information flow a major hurdle for nanotechnology Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science Indian mechanical engineers {{india-academic-bio-stub