Volume 3 No.5 September-November 2000

News Update


Short Courses and Workshops

Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Chemical Industry, Dr. J.P. Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering, 27-30 November 2000.

Marketing on the Internet, Dr. Sanjeev Swami and Dr. Ashok Mittal, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, 30 November - 2 December 2000.

Review of Provisions of IS 456-2000, (Indian Code of Practice for Reinforced Concrete Design)
Dr. Sudhir Misra, Department of Civil Engineering, 4-5 November 2000.

Internet Technologies, Dr. T.V. Prabhakar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 9-11 November 2000.

10th National Seminar on "Aerospace Structures (X NASAS)", Dr. N.G.R. Iyengar and Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 8-9 December 2000.

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Asia Region-Kanpur Site), Dr. P. Gupta, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 13-16 December 2000.

An International Symposium on "Recent advances in Experimental Fluid Mechanics",  Dr. E. Rathakrishnan, Department of Aerospace Engineering , 18-20 December 2000.

National Conference on "Communications" Dr. V. Sinha, Department of Electrical Engineering, 26-28 January 2001.

National Seminar on "Prospects of Industrial R&D in India under Globalization",  Dr. B.K. Pattnaik, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 6-7 January 2001.


Awards and Honours

Dr. N.G.R. Iyengar, Professor & Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering has been nominated a member of the first Executive Council of the Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal.

Dr. Sanjay Mittal, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award 2000.

Dr. Javed Iqbal, Professor, Department of Chemistry, has been elected a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy.

Dr. N. Sathyamurthy, Professor, Department of Chemistry has been selected for Sir C.V. Raman Award for Physical Sciences, Hari Om Ashram Trust Award for the year 1997.

Dr. R.P. Chhabra, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. M.R. Madhav, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering has been elected as President of the Indian Geotechnical Society for the term 2001 and 2002.

Dr. M.R. Madhav, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering has been elected as the Editor of Publications of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for the sessions 2001-2002.

Dr. G.K. Dubey, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy.

The paper titled "Damping of Subsynchronous Transient Torque Oscillations using STATCOM" Co-authored by Professor Arindam Ghosh and Professor Sachchidanand of the Department of Electrical Engineering has been selected for The Union Ministry of Energy: Department of Power Medal and also for The President of India Medal of the Institution of Engineers (India).

Dr. D.C. Agarwal, Professor, Materials Science Programme has been elected as a member of the Council of the Indian Ceramic Society from the Northern Zone for the term 2001-2002.

Dr. A. Upadhyaya, Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering (Visiting Faculty) has been nominated as the recipient of the R.L. Thakur Memorial Award - 2000 by the Indian Ceramic Society.

Dr. Dipak Mazumdar, Professor, Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering has been selected for one of the Metallurgist of the year Award of 2000 by the Indian Institute of Metals.

Dr. K.A. Padmanabhan, Director, has been elected as Member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad.

Dr. S.P. Mehrotra, Professor, Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. U.B. Tewari, Professor, Department of Mathematics has been selected for the Meghanad Saha Award for Theoretical Sciences, Hari Om Ashram Trust Award for the year 1997.

Dr. Debashish Kundu, Professor, Department of Mathematics has been elected as a Contributing Editor for Current Index to Statistics (CIS)

Dr. A.K. Mallik, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy

Dr. G.S. Upadhyaya, Professor, Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering has been selected a member of  the Editorial Review Committee of the journal "Powder Metallurgy Science & Technology Briefs" published by the Metal Powder Industries Federation, USA.


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