SRMIST Vadapalani
Dr. A. Lalitha Saravanan

Dr. A. Lalitha Saravanan

Assistant Professor (O.G)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degree Specialization University/Institute Name, Year
Ph.D Thermal Engineering Anna University, Chennai, 2018
PG R & AC Anna University, Chennai, 2008
UG Automobile Engineering Bharathiyar University, 2004
  • Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
  • Alternate Refrigerants
  • Automobile Engineering

Theory Courses Handled:

  • Automobile Engineering
  • Basic Civil and Mechanical Engineering
  • Engineering Mechanics
  • Engineering Graphics
  • Power Plant Engineering
  • Total Quality Management
  • Heritage of Tamils
  • Disaster Management
  • Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Thermal Engineering
  • Metrology and Measurements
  • Thermal Engineering - I
  • Thermal Engineering - II
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Hydraulics and Pneumatics
  • Automotive Systems
  • Robotics
  • Strength of Materials
  • Computer Simulation of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems
  • Air Handling Systems Design
  • Technology of Surface Coating

Lab Courses Handled :

  • Engineering Practices Laboratory
  • Thermal Engineering Laboratory - I
  • Manufacturing Technology Laboratory - I
  • Manufacturing Technology Laboratory - II
  • Design and Fabrication Project
  • Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  • Strength of Materials Laboratory
  • Metrology and Measurements Laboratory
  • Computer Aided Machine Drawing
  • Computer Aided Design Laboratory
  • Technical Seminar
  • Project Work Phase II
  • Automation and Metal Forming Laboratory
  • Worked as Sales Engineer in Jayaraj Automobile Agencies, Madurai from October 2004 to March 2005.
  • Worked as Lecturer in Sree Narayana Guru Polytechnic College, Madukkarai, Coimbatore from July 2005 to April 2006.
  • Worked as Product Development & Design Engineer in Visteon Automotive Systems India (VASI) Pvt Ltd, Chennai from July 2008 to October 2009.
  • Worked as Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering, Padappai, Chennai from February 2010 to June 2010.
  • Worked as Teaching Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Chennai from July 2010 to December 2014.
  • Worked as Research Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Chennai from January 2015 to April 2018.
  • Worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, VSB College of Engineering Technical Campus, Coimbatore from August 2018 to September 2020.
  • Worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kathir College of Engineering, Coimbatore from December 2020 to May 2024.
  • Chess competition -Runner (Intra College).
  • Tamil Translator for Anna University Syllabus R2017 Work and Mechanical QP Tamil works.
  • NEET & JEE QP –(Mathematics & Physics) work in E-box platform.
  • Lalitha Saravanan, A & Mohan Lal, D 2012, ‘Experimental assessment of HC-290 as a drop-in substitute to HCFC-22 in a split air conditioner’, Proceedings of the IIR 3rd Workshop on Refrigerant Charge Reduction in Refrigerating Systems, UPV, Valencia, Spain, 25-26 October 2012.
  • A. Lalitha Saravanan, M. Satthiyaraju, B. Suresh Babu, D. Sathish Kumar, K. Parthiban ‘Machine Learning for Prediction of Supply Air Temperature and Humidity in VRV Air Conditioning System’, International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Multifunctional Materials Processing in Engineering (ICMSME-2022), Coimbatore, 9-10 December 2022.
  • Kumaraswamy J, Nishikant Kishor Dhapekar, D. Sakthivel, A. Lalitha Saravanan, K Karthik and Krishna Kant Pandey 2024 ‘Optimizing Gudgeon Pin Material and Design for Stress Concentration Reduction through FEA Analysis’, 3rd International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (ICMSE 2023), NIT Jalandhar, 23-25 November 2023.
  • S. Padmanabhan, S. S. K. Deepak, Abhishek Bhandari, S. Ramasubramanian, A. Lalitha Saravanan, S C V Ramana Murty Naid and Krishna Kant Pandeyd 2024 ‘Investigation of Turning Parameters on Al7075 Alloy Reinforcement with Silicon Carbide for a Surface Roughness of Composite Material’, 3rd International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (ICMSE 2023), NIT Jalandhar, 23-25 November 2023.
  • Lalitha Saravanan, A, Sakthi Murugan, R & Mohan Lal, D 2013, “Charge reduction design strategies for propane as a refrigerant in split air conditioners”, 3rd National Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (NCRAC-2013) IIT Madras, Chennai, 12-14 December 2013.