S. N. Alam is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa. He received his B.Tech. in 1997 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and his M.S. in Photonics and Electronic Materials in the year 2001 from the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in the year 2010 in the area of Tungsten Heavy Alloys Developed by Mechanical Alloying Route in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has also taught at BITS-Pilani. He has taught courses like Composite Materials, Physics of Materials, Metallography and Heat Treatment Laboratory, Computational Techniques in Material Science Laboratory, Materials Technology and Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity.