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Pavana Kumara Bellairu is a Faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore, India. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore and a Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. His area of interest includes Manufacturing Engineering, Polymer Composites, Nanocomposites, Design of Experiments.

Dr Shreeranga Bhat is a Faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore, India. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from the Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. He received PhD Degree in Mechanical Engineering on the topic Lean Six Sigma from VTU, Belagavi. He is Certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma from Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. He has published more than fifteen papers in reputed international journals and a regular reviewer for three international journals in quality management. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of Journal of Engineering Education Transformations and Editorial Advisory Board Member of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma. His area of interest includes Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, robust engineering, reliability engineering and design of experiments.

Dr E.V. Gijo is a Faculty at Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Unit of Indian Statistical Institute at Bangalore. He has authored a book on Lean Six Sigma and published more than 35 articles in international journals related to Six Sigma, statistics, reliability, quality management and time series forecasting. He is Editorial Board Member for three international journals and a regular reviewer of articles related to statistics, quality management, reliability, etc., for over 20 journals. Dr Gijo has worked on a number of consultancy projects with quite a few organisations in India. He also has conducted training for Six Sigma Green Belts, Black Belts and Master Black Belts for past 20 years.