Prabhu Kandachar

Biography

"Prabhu Kandachar is Professor of Industrial Design Engineering with focus on Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Technology. He was till Jan 2012 Chairman of the Department of Design Engineering, at our faculty. He is born and educated in India, with Masters and PhD degree in Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Later at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, he worked for a period of 5 years at Delft from 1975, on environmentally friendly technologies. Between 1980 and 1995, he worked at Fokker Aerospace, near Amsterdam in various technical & management positions involving aerospace design. Since 1995, he is with the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) at Delft University of Technology. Since Jan 2012, he is an emeritus professor at our university. His teaching and research interests at IDE are focussed on concretizing design ideas and concepts to artefacts. Also termed Embodiment Design, his attention in this phase of the design process is, among others on, materials and manufacturing technology related to product design, integrating technology and materials selection in design, etc. He is also Chairman of the Natural Fibre Composites Design Platform at the Netherlands. Additionally Prabhu Kandachar is extensively involved in projects involving students and businesses to identify opportunities as well as to design & prototype products and services for the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP). Issues covered include sustainable materials, water, healthcare, energy, housing, etc., in countries like India, Indonesia, China, Brazil, Ghana, Tanzania, Honduras, Philippines, Pakistan, Madagascar, etc. "

Research Interest

Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Technology