Dr. Satish K.P.
principal@gectcr.ac.in

     Dr. SATISH K. P. is the Principal of Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala. He, holds the PhD degree in the faculty of engineering from the Department of Management Studies of the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

     Dr. Satish has a rich and illustrious career, wherein altogether he has put in nearly 30 years of work experience in both academia and industry. Out of this 10 Years was with large scale manufacturing organizations, occupying responsible positions in the area of Industrial Engineering, Operations Management and Quality Management, and 20 Years in academics in the area of teaching and research in Operations Management, Total Quality Management, Research Methodology, Industrial Engineering and Strategic Management for students of Ph. D, M.Tech, MBA and B.Tech.

    Earlier he was the Professor and Head of Department of Production Engineering. He was instrumental in getting the NBA Accreditation for the MTech (Manufacturing Systems Management) of the department. He has also played a key role in the ISO 9001 certification processes of his institution.

    He is a certified lead assessor for the ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management Systems and also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt holder from Indian Statistical Institute.

   He is also an approved research guide under APJ Abdul Kalam Kerala Technological University as well as University of Calicut. Four scholars has been already awarded PhD under his supervision and another two research scholars are working under him for their PhD. He has to his credit around forty publications in various international journals and conference proceedings. His areas of research interest are Total Quality Management and Lean Manufacturing ( https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nNfQCYUAAAAJ&hl=en )

     He has organized faculty development programmes with DTE/TEQIP/CERD sponsorship and has also organized national conference under TEQIP sponsorship. He had also taken up and executed projects of TEQIP and AICTE.

  He is visiting faculty as well as examination panel member for the M.Tech and MBA programmes of CUSAT, Calicut University, IGNOU and Kerala Agricultural University.