Monday, September 15, 2025

MY IE - ISE STORY - Prof. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao

 


MY IE - ISE STORY

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In the final year of my B.Tech Mechanical Engineering course, I came to know that Industrial Engineering course from NITIE is a very valuable PG degree in India and I sent my application.

I got selected in the first list of 50 candidates. Joined the program in 1977. An achievement to remember during that program is my recommending MRP system for an electric motor plant in 1979.

The recommendation was accepted and the company got a pilot program prepared in the latter year. It is my first success as Industrial Engineer to improve a system.


I started my industrial career in materials planning and then did two years in production planning. I used a manual MRP systems already in practice in the company.

I shifted to teaching in the year 1982 and taught production planning and control and operations research for five years.


I then started my doctoral studies in the area of investment analysis of equity shares. My dissertation was on rates of return in equity shares which is related to cost of capital to be used in share valuation as well as project appraisal.

Cost reduction projects proposed by industrial engineers are to be assessed based on the cost of capital applied cash flows.

I started my proper industrial engineering teaching in NITIE in the 1994. I taught cost accounting and engineering economics. But did number of training programs in cost reduction. Learned Japanese cost management practices.


A shift occurred in the year 2000, as I joined as stockbroking company. From there I became a full professor in corporate finance. In 2006, I joined back NITIE and continued in Finance till 2010.


From 2011 to 2021, my full focus was on the basic course on industrial engineering for PG program and advanced course for research students.

This full focus helped me to create a globally popular blog, Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center  https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com and a popular EBook - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. 

Very Popular Free Download EBook. 13,500+ Downloads/Views so far from three locations. 

https://academia.edu/103626052/INTRODUCTION_TO_MODERN_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_Version_3_0


I am very happy that I contributed three important papers to IISE Conference Proceedings.

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IISE Conference Paper 2017

Principles of Industrial Engineering

Kambhampati, Venkata Satya Surya Narayana Rao.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2017): 890-895.

https://www.proquest.com/docview/1951119980


Frameworks for Productivity Science of Machine Effort and Human Effort

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana.IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2020): 429-434.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/5786c4e6edff56abf808b4db26f083b3/1.pdf


Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana; Rathod, Aniket.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2021): 49-54.

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2560888548


One More IISE Publication

Coca-Cola - A case study of total productivity management

Rao, K V S S Narayana.  Industrial Management; Mar/Apr 2021

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2528240678/FCCB88788F794CD5PQ/12



15 September is Engineers' Day in India.

India Engineers'' Day 2025 - 15th September Message to Industrial Engineers with Mechanical and Production Engineering Branch Foundation.

 

This year the 58th Engineers’ Day will be celebrated all over the country on the theme “Deep Tech & Engineering Excellence: Driving India’s Techade".

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/09/india-engineers-day-2025-15th-september.html

#EngineersDay  #IndustrialEngineering  #MechanicalEngineering  #ProductionEngineering
















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