Balaji Shanmugasundaram

Graduate Student

301, Earth Engineering Sciences Building

Center for Neural Engineering

Contact Information:

212, Earth Engineering Sciences Building

Engineering Science and Mechanics Department

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA, USA - 16802

Cell : 001-814-441-7157

Office: 001-814-865-0662

Fax : 001-814-865-6161

E-mail: s.balaji@psu.edu, balaji2101@gmail.com

Education:

M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, UP, India (2004-2006)
B.E. PSG College of Technology (Bharathiar University), Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India (2000-2004)

Honors:

Prof. Bal Deva Upadhyaya Memorial Gold Medal (2006-07) for the best M.Tech. Thesis in Physical Metallurgy including Materials Processing
Academic Excellence Award in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering for the year 2004-05

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Achievements:

District Third in X Std. Public Examination
First Place in Elements and Materials Quiz – 2003 conducted by Metallurgical Engineering Association, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Second Place in Quiz on Materials and Welding - 2003 conducted by Indian Institute of Welding, Chennai Branch, India
First Place in All India Materials Quiz – 2004 conducted by ASM International Chennai Chapter, IIT Madras Student Chapter of ASM International and IIM Chennai Chapter, India

Projects:

M.Tech. Thesis: Sintering and Characterization of Aluminide Reinforced Stainless Steel Composites
B.E. Project: Multicomponent Boronizing of Titanium Alloy

Other Projects:

“Establishing Dimensional Change Data for Various Powder Metallurgy Components” in PRICOL, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
“Root Cause Analysis for Various Patches Generated while Processing CRCA Coils” in TISCO, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
“Electrochemical Investigation of Sintered YAG added Stainless steel composites” under the guidance of Dr. A. Upadhyaya, Dept. of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Industrial Exposure:

25 days project based training in PRICOL (Powder Metallurgy Division), Coimbatore, India
32 days project based training in TATA Steel (Cold Rolling Mill), Jamshedpur, India
6 days observational training in COIMBATORE SUPERALLOYS Ltd. (Steel Foundry), Coimbatore, India
Observational training in PSG Charity Industrial Institute, Coimbatore and PSG Neelambur Foundry Division, Coimbatore, as a part of the curriculum

Publications:

S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Electrochemical Behavior of Sintered YAG Dispersed 316L Stainless steel Composites”, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2007, Vol. 101, Issues 2-3, pp. 310-316.
S. Balaji, G. Joshi, A. Upadhyaya, “Corrosion Behavior of Sintered Aluminide Reinforced Ferritic Stainless steel”, Scripta Materialia, 2007, Vol.56, Issue 2, pp. 149-151.
S. Balaji, P. Vijay, A. Upadhyaya, “Effect of Sintering Temperature on the Electrochemical, Hardness and Tribological Properties of Aluminide Reinforced Austenitic Stainless Steel”, Scripta Materialia, 2007, Vol. 56, Issue 12, pp. 1063-1066.
S. Balaji, G. Joshi, P. Vijay, A. Upadhyaya, “Corrosion behavior of Sintered Aluminide Reinforced 316L and 434L Stainless Steel,” Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials-2007, v. 7, Metal Powder Industries Federation, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2007, pp. 51-57.
S.M. Tiwari, S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Sintering and Characterization of YAG Dispersed Ferritic Stainless Steels”, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2008, Vol. 492, Issues 1-2, pp. 60-67.
A. Upadhyaya, S. Balaji, “Sintered Intermetallic Reinforced 434L Ferritic Stainless Steel Composites”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2009, Vol.40, Issue 3, pp. 673-683.
S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Mechanical, Corrosion, and Sliding Wear Behavior of Intermetallics Reinforced Austenitic Stainless Steel Composites”, Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 44, pp. 2310-2319.
D.L. Andre, B. Shanmugasundaram, J. Mason, C. Drapaca, and B.J. Gluckman, “Mechanisms determining safety and performance of brain stimulating electrodes” Proc. IEEE Eng. Med Biol. Soc. 2009, vol. 1, pp. 689-692.
M. Anil, S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, M.K. Ghosh, and S.N. Ojha, “Potentiodynamic Polarization Aspects of the As-cast and Sprayed Al-Si, Al-Sn and Al-Sn-Si Alloys in a Sodium Chloride Solution” Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, (Available Online).

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Abstracts:

S. Balaji, “Thin Film Coatings for Chronic Neural Stimulating Electrodes” in College of Engineering Research Symposium 2008, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
S. Balaji, B.J. Gluckman, “Coatings for High Charge Passing Capacity Neural Electrodes” in ESM Today 2008, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
S. Balaji, G. Joshi, A. Upadhyaya, “Consolidation and Characterization of Aluminide Reinforced 434L Stainless steel Composites” in PM07 Conference, Noida, India, Feb.2007 (International)
S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Supersolidus Liquid Phase Sintering of Intermetallics Dispersed Stainless Steel Composites” in RAMP2006 conference, Coimbatore, India, Dec.2006 (International)
P. Vijay, S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Corrosion Behavior of Sintered Aluminide Reinforced 316L Stainless Steel” in NMD-ATM2006 conference, Jamshedpur, India, Nov.2006 (Poster) (National)
G. Joshi, S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Corrosion Behavior of Sintered Aluminide Reinforced 434L Stainless Steel” in NMD-ATM2006 conference, Jamshedpur, India, Nov.2006 (Poster) (National)
S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Electrochemical Behavior of Intermetallics Reinforced Stainless steel Composites” in CORCON2005 conference, Chennai, India, Nov.2005 (International)
S. Balaji, A. Upadhyaya, “Electrochemical Behavior of Sintered YAG Dispersed 316L Stainless steel Composites” in NMD-ATM2005 conference, Chennai, India, Nov.2005 (Poster) (National)
S. Balaji, S.M. Tiwari, A. Upadhyaya, “Microstructural and Electrochemical Investigation of Sintered 316L-based Composites” in PM05 conference, Mumbai, India, Feb.2005 (International)