Veerangouda

Biography:

Dr. M. Veerangouda, presently working as Registrar of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur. He has completed his Master’s and Doctoral Degree from TNAU, Coimbatore with a specialization in the field of Farm Power and Machinery. He has rich experience of more than thirty two years of service in the college and in the field of agricultural engineering and specifically in the field of farm machinery and power engineering. He has served under different capacities right from assistant professor, associate professor, professor, head of the department and also the dean of the college. He has served as Head of the department for more than ten years in the Farm Machinery and Power Engineering including the university level headship. He has guided more than twenty masters and eight doctoral students under his chairmanship. He has handled more than twenty research projects which have been funded by ICAR, GoI, GoK and also Institutional. There are more than thirty five technologies developed and popularized under his leadership and collaborative projects. He has more than hundred publications which comprise of research papers and abstracts published in reputed national and international journals, research and technical bulletins, popular articles, extension literatures etc. He has also been conferred with a number of national and international awards for the contributions in the field of farm machinery and power engineering. He is also a member of the different professional bodies like, The Institution of Engineers (India), The Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Karnataka Agricultural Engineers Association etc.