Professor
Industrial Design Centre,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Powai, Mumbai 400076.
Telephone – (0) 25767860, 25767802 (R) 25768860
Fax - +91-22-25767803, +91-22-25723480
Email: chakku@iitb.ac.in
Educational
PhD, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute Technology, Delhi, 2003.
M. Des., Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1988
B. E. (Mechanical), Osmania University, Hyderabad, 1986
Principal Fields of Interest in Product Design:
Professor | IDC IIT Bombay, Mumbai, | 2001 – Present |
Associate Professor | IDDC IIT Delhi, New Delhi | 1999 – 2001 |
Assistant Professor | IDDC IIT Delhi, New Delhi | 1994 – 1999 |
Principal Designer | Larsen and Toubro Limited, Mumbai | 1988 – 1994 |
Subjects Taught at IDC IITB, Mumbai and IDDC IITD, New Delhi:
Advisory Boards
Industrial Consulting Record
Consultancy Projects at IDC IITB:
Consultancy Projects at IDDC IITD:
Professional Assignments at L & T Ltd:
Professional Associations
National Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop/ and Case Study:
Chakravarthy, B. K., delivered a lecture on “Design of Letterbox for India Post” in the session on “Social Entrepreneurs” during 7th CII-NID Design Summit “Leadership through Design” held at BIEC, Bangalore in December ’07”.
Chakravarthy, B. K., participated on behalf of IDC for a workshop on educational collaboration with Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Canada in January ’07 in Mumbai.
Chakravarthy, B. K., participated in GE-Day, a showcase of “technology and innovation” held in November 2006 at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi.
Chakravarthy, B. K., made a presentation on topic “Industrial Design Case Studies” during CII-Workshop on “Protection of Industrial Design” held in September 2006 at Hotel Taj Mahal, Mumbai.
Chakravarthy, B. K., attended seminar “Disruptive Innovation” Unlocking New Market Growth, A Seminar with Professor Clayton Christensen and Innosight held in July 2006 at Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai.
Chakravarthy, B. K., Delivered a lecture at National Seminar on Industrial Design and Intellectual Property Rights held in April 2006, at NID, Ahmedabad, under the theme “Shaping Our World, Shaping Our Lives – The World Of Industrial Designs” & the title was “Role of Designs in Enhancing the Competitiveness of Indian Design Industry: Can India be a Major Hub for Outsourcing of Designs?”.
Chakravarthy, B. K., delivered a lecture on Collaborative Innovation at the PLM Conference held at IIT Bombay in the month of April 2005.
Chakravarthy, B. K., conducted a 3 days workshop on Design for Sr. Managers for a part-time course conducted by SOM, IIT Bombay for manufacturing excellence in Ashok Leyland in 2005
Chakravarthy, B. K. (December 2003), A Collaborative Model for New Product Innovation, seminar presentation at Design Summit 2003-04, Confederation of Indian Industry, Mumbai. India.
Chakravarthy, B.K (June 2002), Organizing faculty of the EU-India Economic Cross Cultural Program: Indian European Ecodesign Program (IEEP).
Chakravarthy, B. K. (April 2001), New Products Concepts in Refrigerators, seminar presentation organized by Refrigerator Division Whirlpool, Cassinetta, Italy.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (April 2001), From Idea to Market digitally - Design of a Washing Machine for Electrolux, International conference on Management of Product Design and Development organized by Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (1997), Concurrent Engineering in Indian Industry, at the National Conference on Concurrent Engineering organized by Indian Navy at Sena Bhavan, New Delhi.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (1996), Human Centered Concurrent Engineering, paper presented at the national conference on Concurrent Engineering, Indian Engineering Trade Fair, organized by R & D Engineers, DRDO, Pune.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (1994), Innovative Methods in Product Development, paper presentation at the National conference on Product design organized by CEDT, I.I.Sc., Bangalore.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (October 1993), case study on New Product Design (Z Line Gasoline Dispenser), at Design Dimensions: Good Design is Good Business, organized by Society for Industrial Designers of India.
International Conferences
Chakravarthy, B. K., made a presentation on topic “Reliable Innovation Process for New Product Design” at the GLOGIFT-06, Sixth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management held in December 2006 at School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand with a theme “Management of Innovation, Technology Transfer & Flexibility for Competitiveness in the Globalized World”.
Chakravarthy, B. K., made an invited presentation on “Design in India” during a research visit to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA in June 2005.
Chakravarthy, B. K., made a presentation on “Methodology for Innovation” during INSTITUTE OF DESIGN strategy CONFERENCE held in May 2005 at Illinois Institute of Design, Chicago.
Chakravarthy, B. K., was presented a paper titled “Methodology for Innovation” during International Seminar on Product Life Management held at Noida in the month of March, 2005.
Chakravarthy, B. K., was presented a paper titled “Collaborative Network for Entrepreneurial Innovation” during the Fourth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management held at Mussoorie in December 2004.
Chakravarthy, B. K., participated in Petrolworld, Goa held in September 2004.
Chakravarthy, B. K., was presented a paper titled “Collaborative Network for Entrepreneurial Innovation” during Cumulus Conference, Oslo held in May 2004.
Chakravarthy, B. K. and Shatdal, A. (November 2002), Innovation: A Collaborative Approach, Paper presented at the Indo-Japan Symposium on “Technology and Innovation Management for Competitiveness in Convergence Era” organized by IIT-Delhi, Mombusho Scholars Association of India (MOSAI), Association of International Education Japan (AIEJ) and Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management.
Chakravarthy, B. K., Shatdal, A. and Ghatgey, A. (September 2002), Collaborative Networking for New Product Concept Management, paper presented at International Conference on Multimedia Development, organized by Aptech-Worldwide.
Chakravarthy, B.K. (January 2002), “ Application Development Methodology – Is it different for Aluminium.”, Proceedings of the ALTECH: Aluminium- 2002 seminar, Bangalore, India.
Chakravarthy, B. K., Albers, A., and Schweinberger, D. (October 2001), “Collaborative Environment for Concept Generation of New Products, paper presented at Exploring Emerging Design Paradigm conference organized by International Council of Societies of Industrial Design at Senognam City, Korea.
Chakravarthy B. K. (December 2000), New Product Design Management with CPC (Collaborative product Commerce), paper presented at the First Global Conference on Flexible Management Systems, organized by GLOGIFT, New Delhi.
Chakravarthy, B. K (March 2000), “ Design of Safe Ride on Toys”, International conference on Injury Prevention and Control organized by CBME IITD.
Chakravarthy, B.K (February 2000), invited to deliver Forum Minerva Lecture on Form Generation.
Chakravarthy, B. K., (August 1999), Design Methodology, seminar presentation at the TNO product center, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (July 1999), New Product Development, paper presented at University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Chakravarthy, B. K. (July 1999), User Interface The Missing Link, paper presented at the international workshop on missing link, conducted by the State Academy of Art Architecture and Design, Stuttgart, Germany.
Research Visit
Participant of the program “New Product Design and Development for India.”, organized by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), Japan, August-September 2003.
Visit to Design Expo 2000 Hanover Fair Germany to study future projections in Design, July 2000
Under took a one-month research visit to Dept of Mech Engineering Univ of Karlsruhe Germany under the DAAD Faculty exchange programme. Research Theme "New Product Design Management Tools and Methodologies". July 1999.
Research Grants
Honors and Awards
Organizing Committee in European Union sponsored Collaborative Project on Eco Design involving three institutes, IIT Delhi, TU Delft, Netherlands and INETI Portugal from Feb-1999 to April-2002.
Nominated by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for research visit to University of Karlsruhe, Germany on the topic, ‘New Product Design Management’, from Feb 2001 to July 2001.
Chosen as an expert by BBC for a series on consumer product rating called “Money Wise” for nine episodes involving six product categories, September-1998 to May-1999.
Awarded as ‘Conscious Designer’ for the month of December-1996 by, Design Digest, Spectrum Magazines Ltd., New Delhi.