Research Interests

Professor Mohanty joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1996 as a Visiting Lecturer, from where he started his teaching career. At present he is a Professor since 2004 and in the Higher Academic Grade, scale since 2010. He held the Shyamal Ghosh and Sunanda Ghosh Chair Professor in the same department from 2017 to 2020. And was the Head of the Department from 2019 to 2022. Prof. Mohanty was the Chairman of IIT-JEE 2012 at IIT Kharagpur. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur he worked in the R&D department of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, USA. Prof. Mohanty has also worked in the R&D of Larsen and Toubro Limited, Mumbai, India.

Professor Mohanty’s research group has done pioneering work in the areas of motor current signature analysis for fault detection in rotating machines. Another major research contribution of Professor Mohanty has been in the use of natural materials for noise control. Professor Mohanty has been a consultant to more than 100 industries in India and abroad like, BMW, Philips, Whirlpool, Caterpillar to name a few in these areas. His sponsored research projects in the areas of noise control and machinery condition monitoring are funded by many government and private agencies and industries.

Professor Mohanty has more than 150 journal and conference publications, four book chapters and one book on “Machinery Condition Monitoring: Principles and Practices”, CRC Press, (2014), to his credit. His NPTEL and GIAN lectures on Machinery Condition Monitoring and Acoustics & Industrial Noise Control are available on YOU TUBE. He regularly conducts continuing education short courses in the above areas. Professor Mohanty has had many visiting professor positions at universities in Singapore, France and the United States of America. He has widely travelled around the world.

Professor serves in many national and international committees as expert member in the areas of noise control and automotive technology, he also chairs some of the committee for noise control of strategic assets of the Indian Government. He has received several awards like the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Kentucky (1993), Rais Ahmed Memorial (2009) and M. S. Narayanan Memorial (2015) Award of the Acoustical Society of India, Star Alumnus Award of NIT Rourkela (2015), Dr. V. Bhujanga Rao Endowment Lecture Award (2019) of the Condition Monitoring Society of India, Distinguished Alumnus Award of National Institute of Technology Rourkela in the year 2022. He is fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Acoustical Society of India, Condition Monitoring Society of India, Institution of Engineers (India) and the International Society for Engineering Asset Management. He is an honorary life fellow of the Council of Vibration Specialists of India. He is also a registered chartered engineer in India. He was selected by the then Ministry of Human Resources Development, of the Government of India to be a participant in the Leadership for Academics Program (LEAP) at Cambridge University, UK in 2019.