College Code : SCM

Faculty

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Francis Thomas

Assistant Professor

Specialisation:Production Engineering

Room: 153, Mechanical Block

Educational Qualifications

  • B. Tech Mechanical Engineering (M.V.J College of Engg: Bangalore)
  • M.Tech Production Engineering (CUSAT)

Employment History

  • Joined SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Karukutty, Cochin on 01-08-2007
  • 3 year teaching cum training experience at Kuttukaren Institute of Human Resources Kerala, India
  • Thirteen years industrial experience mainly in polythene pipes and water tank manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities Held

Responsibilities Held

  • Class Co-ordinator, discipline committee member

Present Responsibilities

  • Class Co-ordinator and eco club member
  • Custodian of MG University Marklist – maintenance and distribution of MG University Marklist for entire mechanical batches so far (14 batches).

Teaching Interests

  • Thermodynamics
  • Internal Combustion Engine
  • Production Engineering
  • Thermal Engineering
  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
  • Design of machine elements
  • Mechatronics
  • Advanced manufacturing process

Publications

  • P. Venu, Archana S. Vasudev, Francis Thomas & Noel Joseph Gomez, Cuckoo-entropy algorithm based quality function deployment for replacement analysis, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), Vol. 10, Issue 3, Jun 2020, 4155-4166.
  • Francis Thomas, Sajith V.S, P. Sajeesh, J.Jithu, Modeling and optimization of spine and lower extremities of a motor cycle rider, Second International Conference on IoT, Social, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud in Computational Vision & Bio-Engineering (ISMAC-CVB 2020)