Er. Sumit Chopra joined PAU as Assistant Professor on 17.01.2011 after completing M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering in 2007. Prior to this assignment, he has worked with International Tractors limited, Hoshiarpur, Punjab as Assistant Manger-Research and Development, Design Division from 2007- 2011. His field of specialization is occupational safety, metallurgical failure analysis, static and fatigue analysis and investigation of corrosion behavior of metals. He is extensively engaged in teaching of UG and PG courses of the department and has published 5 Teaching manuals. He has completed one project on ICAR e-courses on “Theory of Machines” under Krishi shiksha program. He is also associated team member of AICRP on “ergonomics and safety in Indian agriculture” going on in the department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering. He has guided 12 undergraduate project students. Presently, he is the Co-Incharge of College Library, COAET, PAU, Ludhiana.

Research Projects completed

1. E-course development under ICAR – Krishi shiksha grant (2012-14)
2. Improvement of visibility of tractor cabin for operators (2016-19)
3. Development of cabin for combine harvester (2019-2021)

Research Publications:

1. Singh J, Chopra S, Chunneja N K (2017). Effect of Tractor Usage on Noise level. International conference on Mechanical and Production SAARC Chandigarh. ISBN 978-91-86291-63-9.pp 42-45.
2. Chunneja N K, Chopra S, Singh K, Singh J (2017) Study of Tractor Noise levels at different Throttle positions. Emerging Technological insights (Int. Conf. on Research and Society), GGNIMT. ISBN 978-93-85835-80-3.pp51-56