B. K. Rout completed his B. E. in Mechanical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, Sambalpur (Deemed University) in the year 1990 and completed M. Tech, in Quality, Reliability and Operations Research from Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta, 1992. After graduation he worked with Escort Ancillaries and MESCO Steel Projects for 5 years. He joined BITS Pilani, in December 1998. For the last 12 years he is working as a Faculty member of Mechanical Engineering Group. While serving as a faculty member in the department of Mechanical Engineering, he completed his doctoral research in area of manipulator design under the guidance of Prof. R K Mittal in 2006. So far he has published many research papers in National and International Conferences and in International Journals. His areas of interests are Simulation and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Design Optimization and Quality Engineering.
