Dr. Manjeet Singh, a Dynamic Professional with more than 27 years of experience including 4 years administrative experience as Head of the department. Under R&D, total 30 machines/technologies designed and developed especially in the area of conservation/precision/sensor based agricultural machinery. Out of which, 22 machines/technologies recommended by the research evaluation committee of the university for commercialization and adoption of the farmers and 3 technologies were licensed to 126 manufacturers for their mass production. Total 18 numbers of externally funded research projects funded by World Bank, ICAR, SERB, DST, DoA&FW, Industries etc. including one mega project under NAIP were completed or in hand. Total 341 publications including 101 research papers in peer reviewed journals, 64 Books/Chapters/manuals/bulletins, 66 published in the proceedings of various national and international conferences/symposia etc. To protect the IPR issues, 5 innovative technologies have also been applied for granting of patent.

Decorated by many societies/organizations including National Societal Innovation Award- 2019 by NRDC, Team Award by Dr Gurdev Singh Khush Foundation for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences for the year 2019, Cash Award and Citation from Honorable Governor of Punjab in the year 2019. The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata nominated as Fellow of the AG Division in 2019. Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) conferred JYOTI AWARD in 2011 and Team Award in 2019.. Indian Society of Technical Education awarded for guiding best M.Tech Thesis in Agricultural Engineering in the year 2008. Award of honour during an “International Indo-US Workshop on Precision Agriculture Technologies & Techniques’ by PAU, Ludhiana and Colorado State University, USA in the year 2011. Received Senior Professional Engineer Award as an Alumni of College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur in 2016.

In teaching, total 18 (14 UG + 4 PG) courses taught comprised of 170 number of credit hrs. During the service, total 30 numbers (18 UG+ 12 PG) of students guided and was members of advisory committee for 31 PG students. External examiner/evaluator/paper setter for 30 such assignments of various universities/institutes like IARI, HAU, IIT Kharagpur etc. Organized 16 number of National Trainings/Seminar/Summer/Winter Schools etc. Including 3 Winter/Summer Schools as Director sponsored by ICAR and 2 National Trainings sponsored by ICAR under NAIP.

Under transfer of technology, total 113 trainings organized including 43 co-ordinated for the various functionaries of the State Govt. Departments/farmers etc. Total 210 lectures including 84 invited lectures delivered during various extension activities/events/fairs in the state as well as at national level. Total 18 TV/Radio talks were either live-in-phone or recorded and telecasted/broadcasted by different channels. Total 93 demonstrations/exhibitions/display of agricultural machinery were conducted at kisan mela’s, extension workshops, field days etc. organized by State Govt; PAU, Ludhiana; Regional Research Stations; KVK’s etc.

Attended 24 international conferences including 12 in different countries like USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, South Korea, New Zealand, China etc with the theme mainly in the area of precision agriculture through travel grants received from DST, SERB, AICTE etc.