Padmakumar Nair, PhD
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Clinical Professor
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Education: |
Dr. Eng., University of Tokyo, Japan, 1998 PhD, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1993 MBA, Heriot-Watt University, U.K., 1999 MTech, Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1987 |
Industry Experience/Visiting Positions: |
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UT Dallas, USA Periyar Maniammai University, Tamilnadu, India Wuhan University, E-MBA Program, Wuhan, China University of Twente, Netherlands Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship, Enschede, The Netherlands University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, UK Chonnam National University, Graduate School of Business, Gwangju, South Korea |
Courses: |
BA 3361 Organizational Behavior BA 4307 Corporations, Politics and Society BPS 6360 Management and Organizational Consulting: Theory and Practice BPS 6379 Business Strategies for Sustainability SYSM 6313 Systems Negotiating & Dispute Resolution |
Current / Recent Research: |
Entrepreneurial Intention and Engineer to Manager Transition Leadership Philosophy and Organizational Performance Knowledge Transfer and Learning in Professional Organizations Passion and Performance Phase transformation assisted sintering of nanostructured ceramics Sol-Gel Processing of Nanostructured Ceramics for Photovoltaic, Optical and High Temperature Applications |
Awards and Recognition: |
Published one of the first studies in the area of nanostructured materials: Padmakumar Nair et al., “Densification of Nanostructured Titania Assisted by a Phase Transformation,” Nature (London), 358, 48-51 (1992) |
Professional Organizations: |
Academy of Management American Ceramic Society Indian Institute of Metals |
