| Prakash R Apte |
Prakash Apte obtained his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Indore University in 1968, and M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT
Kanpur in 1970. He then joined as research staff and obtained his Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He had been
instrumental in developing India's first TTL technology. He spent couple of years (1977-78) in the IC lab, at Stanford University, USA.
His recent research interests have been high temperature superconductors, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in silicon and
Taguchi/TRIZ methods. He has authored more than 50 research papers in international journals.
Since 1992, his main interest shifted to Taguchi methods for process and quality improvement and later in 1997 he got interested in
TRIZ - Inventive Problem Solving. He has been conducting 1-day to 5-day courses in these two methods for engineers from Indian industries and
research scholars from universities.
Since October 2001, he has been a Professor in the Quality and Reliability Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.