ICRISET2017: Editor's Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at ICRISET2017: International Conference on “Research and Innovations in Science, Engineering &Technology” held on February 17 - 19, 2017 at Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand.

There were more than 530 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least 12 reviewers, and on the average 1.2, program committee members. The committee decided to accept 81 papers. The program also includes invited talks of experts from various IITs, NITs and reputed institutions within India and abroad.

The International Conference on “Research and Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology” (ICRISET 2017) with theme “Responding to Challenges of Globalization through Science, Engineering and Technology Innovations” was a three-day event organized with an aim to bring together science and engineering professionals and researchers in the country and in other parts of the world to share recent discoveries and results of their scientific innovations..

We are thankful to the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Institute of Engineers, India (IEI)
TEQIP-II committee for their unconditional admin & financial support during the project.

We are heartily thankful to our academic partners Ural Federal University-Russia, University of Prince Edward Island-Canada, Huazhong University of Science and Technology-China, Laurentain University-Canada, Wismar University-Germany, CPIT-New Zealand and Jiangsu University-China.

We would like to convey our heartfelt thanks to our eminent speakers for their enormous contributions and ideas which sparked the audience.

Our exceptional thanks to all our Reviewers and Session Chairs for sparing their valuable time giving precious insights on the research papers presented.

An act of gratitude is expressed to EasyChair for providing the most appropriate platform for paper submission, review and publication.