Dr Poornima

Dr. Poornima D S

Assistant Professor

Qualifications

  • B. Tech in Agricultural Engineering

    University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore-65

  • M. Tech in Processing & Food Engineering

    University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore-65

  • M. Tech in Processing & Food Engineering

    Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

Experience

Total Years of Experience: 3 years

Training Experience

  • 2 DAYS Enterpreneurship Development Programme On Post-Harvest Technology Of Grains – Cereals, Pulses & Oilseeds” (Sponsored by ICAR SC-SP).
  • 3 DAYS Enterpreneurship Development Programme On Post-Harvest Technology For Fruits And Vegetables Processing” (Sponsored by ICAR SC-SP)
  • 2 DAYS Enterpreneurship Development Programme on Pramukha Aahara Dhanyagala Samksarane Mathu Moulyavardhane
  • 2 DAYS Enterpreneurship Development Programme on Siridhanyagala Samskarane mathu Moulyavardhane

Food Processing & Value addition: — Drying, turmeric processing, millets popping

National Journal Papers & International Journal Papers

  • Poornima, D.S., Ganapathy, S. and Surendrakumar, A., 2019. Comparision of physical properties of turmeric rhizomes at fresh, boiled and dried conditions. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 8(6), pp.44 – 48.
  • Hanumantharaju K N, Poornima D S, Ramya H N & Ashok Suraj B S., 2019, Development and Performance Evaluation Of Whole Crop Finger Millet Thresher, Multilogic In Science (9); 21 – 26
  • Poornima, D.S., Hanumantharaju, K.N., Shankar, V.S., Kumar, K.S. and Ramya, H.N., 2019. Influence of moisture content and temperature on mechanical extraction of oil from watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seeds. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 8(4), pp.275 – 279.
  • Poornima D S, Ramya C S, Shreedevi M S & Shivashankar.,2021, Superheated Steam Drying Of Turmeric Rhizomes, International Journal Of Enhance Research In Science, Technology & Engineering, (10) 2319 – 2324
  • Hanumantharaju, K. N., Thangavel, K., Poornima, D S., Ganapathy, S. And jesudas, D.M., Development of Electrostatic Spray Coating Machine for Edible Coating of Fruits. Annals of Agri-Bio Research 27 (2) : 231 – 237
  • Shankar, V.S., Velmurugan, G., Prathiba, R., Poornima, D.S., Suvetha, M. and Keerthiga, V., 2023. Effect of on-farm storage structure on physical and bio-chemical changes in aggregatum onion. Materials Today: Proceedings, 72, pp.2417 – 2422.
  • Poornima D S, Ganapathy S, Rajkumar P, Surendrakumar A and Geethalakshmi I., 2019, Effect Of Superheated Steam Drying On Quality Characteristics Of Turmeric Rhizomes, 11, 8971 – 8975.

  1. Cleared ICAR-NET under the discipline Agricultural Structure and Process Engineering in the year 2018.
  2. Best Paper Presentation Award’ (Poster categories) titled Superheated Steam Drying Of Turmeric Rhizomes” at International Conference On Agriculture, Biological And Life Sciences (ICABLS-2021) Organized By Vidya Kutir Foundation, New Delhi During 25th ‑26th September, 2021.
  3. University Resident Merit Scholarship’ to pursue Master of Technology (Processing and Food Engineering).
  4. Best Poster Award’ at National Symposium on Perspectives of Agriculture Engineering in Nation Building-AET’17 for the poster on Electro Spinning : Its Scope in Nano Technology” during the year 2017 at Kumulur.
  5. Best Poster Award’ at PG Science week during 2016 at Bangalore for the poster Extraction of oil from watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seeds”
  6. Served as a Resource Person’ in 3 workshops entitled “ Planning, Executing and Writing an International quality PhD Thesis and Original Research Papers” during 2017 at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
  7. Availed National Award of Excellence (Adarsh Vidyasaraswathi Rashtriya Puraskara ) 2021 from Global Management Council (Glacier Journal Research Foundation), Ahmedabad.