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Powder Metallurgy for Automotive and High Performance Materials in Engineering Industries, discusses the current status and potential of this rapidly expanding manufacturing technology. The challenges facing the powder metallurgy (PM) industry, technological advances for the growth of global PM industry are dealt with. The book is a valuable source for Graduate Students, Researchers, Professionals and Technocrats. Salient Features Powder Metallurgy in Automotive Industry Compaction Techniques with improved efficiency & Economy Powder Plant Management and Special Powders High Performance Materials and Processing About The Author Dr. P. Ramakrishnan, Professor Emeritus, I.I.T., Bombay; formerly, Professor & Head of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Professor of Met. Engg. & Materials Science, Chief co-ordinator, Powder Metallurgy and High Temperature Materials Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay is actively engaged in education, research and development, training and industrial consultancy in the field of Powder Metallurgy, Ceramic and Composite Materials. In these areas he has guided 30 Ph.D. projects, published over 450 technical papers in reputed journals and edited 18 books, the latest one in 2009. He has also been invited to present papers/talks/chair technical sessions at various national and international conferences on different occasions in USA, former USSR, UK, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Israel, Hungary, Japan and so on. He has attended and presented papers in more than 30 International conferences abroad and organised 11 International conferences in India, the latest one in 2011. He has been a recipient of Binani Gold Medal of Indian Institute of Metals 1966, National Metallurgist Award of Government of India 1976, best research paper award for 1994 of Powder Metallurgy Association of India, and the award of International Research Grant of National Science Foundation, USA on different occasions. He has participated in the, Indo-US, Indo-former USSR, Indo-German, Indo-Japanese, Indo-UK, and Indo-Israel joint science and technology collaborative research programmers in powder technology and advanced materials. He has served as the chairman and as a member of different committees of the national and international awards and also as the chairman of International Hausner award committee of the International Fine Particle Society, USA in 1980. He was the leader of the Indian delegation of Powder Metallurgy to former USSR, during May-June 1983. He has been invited by the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education of Islamic Republic of Iran to organise a Powder Technology Programme for Ph.D. students in 1995. His name is listed in the Guinness Book of World records 1976 and Marquis Who's Who in the world, International Who's Who of intellectuals, International Biographical centre, Cambridge, England etc. He served as a consultant to World Gold Council and Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council and a member of Board of Governors of I.I.T. Bombay. He is the past chairman of ASM International India chapter, Bombay, past President of Powder Metallurgy Association of India. He is the Editor of Trans. PMAI, & a Fellow of PMAI. He has also served as consultant/expert to many committees of Atomic Energy, Defence, Department of Science and Technology, Space Research, DSIR, CSIR, DGTD, UGC, I.I.T.'s, many Universities, Human Resources Development etc., and also United Nations ESCAP, UNCSTD and UNDP. He is a member of Technical Advisory Board, Editorial Advisory Board, Editorial Board of many journals including International journal of Refractory metals and hard materials and International journal of Advanced Powder Technology and International Liaison Committee of many professional bodies, journals and International Conferences, including Asian Powder Metallurgy, International Plansee Seminars and Powder Metallurgy World Congresses in North America, Europe and Japan.