
Pavan Pandit
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
NITK, Surathkal
He is an enthusiastic young researcher in the area of fabrication of biomedical devices. He has explored fields of conventional and unconventional machining processes. He has carried out extensive work in micro-milling, electropolishing and femtosecond laser machining.
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His current interests include development of hybrid manufacturing techniques, exploring the application of engineering for biomedical device development, study on liquid droplets and smart manufacturing.


Research Interests
He is an enthusiastic young researcher in the area of fabrication of biomedical devices. He has explored fields of conventional and unconventional machining processes. He has worked on abrasive water machining of Brass for his master's thesis. In his doctoral studies, he is carrying out extensive work in micro-milling, electropolishing and femtosecond laser machining. He along with Prof. GL Samuel has devised a hybrid machining process for the fabrication of high quality portable polymeric microdevices used in the ultra purification of blood.
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He is affiliated to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NITK, Surathkal. He has experience in the development of green alternative methods for the fabrication of MEMS devices which include abraisive waterjet machining, laser micromanufacturing, electropolishing and so on. He also has gained experience in the development of percutaneous ventricular assist devices which involved the design and fabrication of guidewires, catheters, miniaturised electric motors, couplings and the analysis of miniaturised impellers.
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Prasanna S Abbigeri, Pavan Pandit, S Niketh, Shalini Singh, GL Samuel (2024) "Flow analysis and fabrication of micro-scale controlled surfaces by ultrashort pulse laser for microfluidic device applications", Manufacturing Letters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213846324001032
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Pavan Pandit, GL Samuel, (2024) "Design and fabrication of a polydimethylsiloxane device for evaluating the effect of pillar geometry and configuration in the flow separation using deterministic lateral displacement", Royal Society of Chemistry Advances,
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Pavan Pandit, GL Samuel, (2023) "Hybrid machining of P20 die steel masters for the development of polymer-based microfluidic devices to study the effect of surface roughness on bacterial activity", Journal of Micromanufacturing,
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Pavan Pandit, GL Samuel, (2022) "Laser Assisted fabrication of deterministic Lateral Displacement structures on P20 die steel masters for microfluidic particle separation", Appl. Phys. A 128, 878 (2022).
Samuel G.L., Kong L., Arcot Y., Pandit P. (2022) Principles of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Biomedical Devices. In: Joshi S.N., Chandra P. (eds) Advanced Micro- and Nano-manufacturing Technologies. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3645-5_16
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