Department of Mechanical Engineering

ME Department News

1. Dr. Sameer Khandekar has been awarded the Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Medal for Young Researcher by the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer, January 2010.
2. Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb has been awarded the 2008 'MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award' by the International Multiple Criterion Decision Making (MCDM) Society.

3. Dr. J. Ramkumar has been granted the DAE Young Scientist Award for the Year 2008.

4. Dr. Gautam Biswas has been elected as the President of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) for the year 2008.

5. Dr. Avinash Agarwal has been selected as a 2008 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award recipient. The award is given to young engineering educators in automotive engineering.

6. Dr. N. S. Vyas has been asked to Chair the Automobile Technology Park under the Board for Smart Materials Research & Technology (B_SMART). The board includes two other parks - Aerospace and Bio-tech. The parks will have research facilities in different institutions and participating industries.

7. Dr. A. Chatterjee will Chair a session entitled 'Digital Empowerment-Outcome of Desktop Revolution' as a part of the International Conference on Engineering Education and Research (ICEER) 2007, to be held in Victoria (Australia) in December 2007.

8. Dr. Avinash Agarwal has been awarded Indian National Science Academy's INSA Young scientist award for the year 2007 on December 23rd 2007.

9. Dr. V. K. Jain has been appointed member of the Editorial Board of ISurfSE: International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering published by Inderscience, UK.

10. Dr. J. Ramkumar has been chosen for the Young Scientist Award (2007-08) - Engineering Sciences given by the Indian Science Congress Association.

11. Dr. Gautam Biswas has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has also been elected as the Indian Representative to the apex body for promotion of research in Mechanics, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for four years wef January 2008.

12. Dr. Kamal Kar has been invited by the Editor of Journal of Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research (CRTER) to be a member of the International Reviewer Board. >Professors P. Munshi and V. Eswaran have become Fellows of Indian Academy of Engineering.

13. Dr. P. Munshi and V. Eswaran have become Fellows of Indian Academy of Engineering.

14. The doctoral work of Atul Srivastava (PhD-2006) has been given the best thesis award of INAE. The title of his thesis: Optical imaging and control of convection around a KDP crystal growing from its aqueous solution".

15. The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) has invited Dr. Gautam Biswas to deliver an invited talk on "Educational Environment in India: A review" at the symposium.The 10th KAST International Symposium on "Interdisciplinary Education for Science and Technology Innovation" scheduled to take place from September 13-14, 2007 in Seoul, Korea.

16. Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb has been honored with the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize in Engineering Sciences

17. Dr. Avinash Agarwal has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory board of "Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering", a publication of Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

18. Dr. Avinash Agarwal has been conferred for the "Alkyl Amines UICT Foundation Day Young Scientist Award" for the year 2007.

19. Dr. Sameer Khandekar has been chosen to receive the Grover Medal for Young Scientist by the International Heat Pipe Committee.

20. Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta has been invited to join the review board of "International Journal of Computational Science.

21. Dr V.K. Jain has been invited to join the editorial board of IJMTM - International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture.

22. The PhD work entitled 'Optical imaging of convection around a KDP crystal growing from its aqueous solution' by Atul Srivastava has
    been chosen for the Best-PhD Thesis Award (2006) during the National Laser Symposium held at RRCAT Indore

23. INCCOM-6 and International Conference on Future Trends in Composite Materials and Processing, December 12-14, 2007

24. Dr. Sameer Khandekar has been invited by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society to be on their panel of reviewers (on papers related to Thermal management/modeling and experimentation/applications).

25. Dr. P. K. Panigrahi  has been invited to join the editorial board of  International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME) http://www.praiseworthyprize.com/IREME.htm.

26. Dr. Gautam Biswas delivered a keynote address entitled "Mathematical Modelling of Turbulence" at the National Conference on CFD Applications in Power and Industry Sectors organized by the Corporate R&D of BHEL Hyderabad during 17-18 November 2006. Further, he chaired a session on "Applications of CFD in Power Plant Accessories".

27. Dr. Bishakh Bhaattacharya has been selected for the Young Scientist's award for the year 2006 by the Systems Society of India. The award will be presented on 2nd November 2006 in the inaugural session of the National Systems Conference.

28. Dr. Gautam Biswas has been elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

29. Dr. B. P. Pundir delivered a Keynote lecture at the Third Asian Vehicle Emission Control Conference (AVECC 2006) held at Jaipur during 20th- 22nd September 2006. The title of his talk: 2/3 Wheeler Vehicular Emissions: New technologies available and impact on air quality from 2-wheeler industry.

30. Mr. Prabhat Agnihotri has been selected for Innovative students' project Award-2006 (based on the M.Tech. Thesis) by Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi.

31. Dr Kalyanmoy Deb honored for his Citations.

32. Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb has been elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

33. Dr V.K. Jain has been appointed to the Editorial Board of International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing, a Springer-Verlag publication.

34. Dr. Sameer Khandekar has been granted the DAE Young Scientist Award of BRNS, DAE to work on the research project entitled, "Development of a Novel Pulsating Heat Pipe-based Compact Heat Exchanger".

35. Dr. Anupam Saxena has been granted the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers for a period of three years.

36. Dr. Avinash Agarwal has been awarded INAE Young Engineer Award for year 2005.

37. Dr V.K. Jain has been invited to serve on the editorial board of International Journal of Nano-manufacturing, published by Inderscience, UK.

38. Dr. P.K. Panigrahi has been awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi for the year 2005.

39. Dr V. K. Jain has been invited to join the editorial board of IJMTM.