SRINIVASAN DWARAKANATH

Adjunct Faculty

Areas of Interest

Aerospace and aviation, general management, program management, business strategy, organisational transformation, digitalisation & industry 4.0, engineering and information management, R&D and innovation, procurement and international cooperation

Courses

Contacts

dwarakanath2050@gmail.com
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Education

PhD (Engineering), Darwin College, Cambridge University, UK, 1991
ME (Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1986
BSc (Mathematics), Madras University, Chennai, 1983

Publications

1. Dwarakanath S and K M Wallace, 1995, Decision Making in Design: Observations from Design Experiments, Journal of Engineering Design, 6(3), 191-206 (Invited paper)
2. Dwarakanath S and Lucienne Blessing, 1996, Ingredients of the design process: a comparison between group and individual work, Analysing Design Activity, Eds. N Cross, H Christiaans and K Dorst, JohnWiley and Sons, 93-116.
3. Dwarakanath S, Lucienne Blessing and K M Wallace, 1995, Descriptive studies: A starting point for research in Engineering Design, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 20-22.
4. Dwarakanath S and K M Wallace, 1995, Design Decision Making Process: Observations from individual and group design experiments, ICED '95, Praha, Czec Republic, 2, 555-560.
5. Wallace K M and S Dwarakanath, 1994, Understanding Decision Making in Engineering Design, EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Initiative, Nov., London, 40-50.

Professional Experience

2021 - present
Mentor & Independent consultant - Aerospace & Aviation; Guest Faculty, IIM-Bangalore
2019 - 2021
VP & Head of Eng. Procurement for Design, Mfg., Eng. & Customer Services, Airbus Group, Toulouse, France
2016-2018
President, Airbus Commercial Aircraft in India and Board Member, Airbus Group India, Delhi & Bangalore
2013-2015
CEO & MD, Airbus India Operations Pvt Ltd & its Board Member, Delhi & Bangalore
2008-2013
VP, Head of Strategy & International Cooperation - Asia-Pacific, Middle East & North Africa, Airbus, Toulouse, France and Bangalore
2006-07
Country Manager - India, Airbus, Toulouse, France
2004-05
Head of Solutions Product Line Management, Airbus, Toulouse, France
2003-04
Information Systems - Head of Engineering Solutions (PDM & CAX), Airbus, Bristol, UK