• Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)

• Precision Manufacturing & Micro Machining.

• Development of precision components & sub-assemblies for Bio-medical, Aerospace, Automobile and General Engineering.
• Development & Indigenization of Import substitutes precision & critical parts.

International:

• A study on surface finish of laser sintered Iron-SiC composites. STLE conference, Lasvegas, USA, May 2010

• Published a Paper  “Study on surface quality and  accuracy of hard turned axial feed     rollers of honing machine.“ – Int. Journal of Precision Technology” by Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 3, No 1, 2012.

• Published a Research paper on “Manufacture of micro sized thread for micro actuator of laser Grating mount”. – Int. Journal of Advanced manufacturing technology” by Springer Publishers, 09 May 2012.

• M.S. Karthik, V.R. Raju., K.Niranjan Reddy, N. Balashanmugam, M.R. Sankar, (2020) “Cutting parameters optimization for surface roughness during dry hard turning of EN 31 bearing steel using CBN Insert.” Materials today: proceedings; DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2020.02.224

• M.S. Karthik,  Kuppuswamy Ramesh, V.R. Raju , M.A. Manjunath , N. Balashanmugam N “Study on effect of abrasive flow polishing of ball nose end mill on its wear characteristics” at International Conference on Precision, Meso, Micro and Nano engineering (COPEN) 2019 held at IIT Indore

 National:

• Presented a Research paper on “Study on micro-electrical discharge machining of Steel using copper Electrodes” – 1^st National Conference on Micro & Nano Fabrication” 2013, CMTI, Bangalore, India.
• Presented a Research paper on “ Evaluation of Spiral Groove Depth on a Spherical Surface by using  Curve Fitting Algorithm – International Colloquium on Material, Manufacturing and Metrology, ICMMM 2014 August 8-9, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

Training on :

• Application Training  on “ Multi process Micro EDM  at M/s. Micro Tools , Singapore
• SERC school on “ Micro Fabrication and Micro Machining processes” at M/s. Jadavpur University, Kolkata