Mr.
Sunil Singhal,
the top rank holder of IIT JEE-1966, graduated in Chemical Engineering
from IIT Kanpur in 1971. Shri Singhal is presently the President
of Chemical Systems Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd., and also the
Founder of Ecoware. He is a member of the International Society
of Sugar Cane Technologists and the Sugar Technologists Association
of India.
After graduation, Shri Singhal worked for India Carbon Ltd and
ALA Chemicals, after which in 1979 he joinedthe leading American
specialty chemical manufacturer, Mazer Chemicals, USA, where
he was appointed to a senior position to market their chemicals
in India. He worked in this capacity till 1986 in several South-East
Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.
He was then appointed the toll formulator in India for Mazer
Chemicals, USA.
Shri Singhal established Chemical Systems Technologies (I) Pvt.
Ltd. in 1990 with the vision to modernize the Indian sugar industry
through state-of-the-art input in terms of process chemicals
and new technologies. These chemicals and processes brought
about a revolution in the sugar industry by the dramatic improvement
in productivity, and reduction in energy consumption. Shri Singhal
was the pioneer to introduce FDA food additives standards, as
applicable in the USA, in India for these process chemicals,
which have found world-wide acceptance and are now also exported
to several countries. He has three patents to his credit.
In 1996, Shri Singhal diversified into project execution, and
upgraded several sugar factories into refineries, incorporating
the latest technologies leading to improved productivity and
better returns. Chemical Systems Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd.
has executed projects for practically every sugar factory/refinery
in India, and also several industries outside India including
in China, Columbia, Indonesia, Fiji, Vietnam, and Sudan, sometimes
on behalf of the Government of India. It is largely on account
of his
work that India is able to manufacture sugar to International
ICUMSA standards. As a recognition of his contributions, Shri
Singhal received the lifetime achievement award of the Sugar
Technologists Association of India in August 2011. In founding
ECOWARE, Shri Singhal has sought to convert the bagasse, a waste
in the sugar industry, into a range of disposable tableware,
which has only one ingredient biomass of plant origin, without
any binders, additives, fillings, coatings, etc. The products
meet the ASTM 5988 standards, and are free of pesticides or
chemical residues. Shri Singhal is also an active philanthropist
and has set-up a primary school in Jogiwala village near Dehradun
where 120 children receive free education.
The
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur was conferred on Shri Sunil Singhal for his outstanding
contributions to developing specialized chemicals and cutting
edge technology for the sugar industry worldwide as well as
for using innovative skills in utilizing the waste generated
for “green” use.
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Prof.
Rakesh Agarwal,
after graduating from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering
in 1975, did his M.S. from the University of Delaware (1977)
and Sc.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1980).
Prof. Agarwal is a Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor,
School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University since 2004.
In 2011, Prof. Agarwal was named by President Obama to receive
the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest
honor bestowed by the US government on scientists, engineers
and inventors. He was awarded the medal with a citation of an
extraordinary record of innovations in improving energy efficiency
and in reducing the cost of gas liquefaction and separation.
Prof. Agarwal has worked at Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
where he rose to its highest technical position of Air Products
Fellow. He is the inventor on one hundred and eighteen U.S.
patents and his ideas have been applied in over one hundred
plants with total expenditures in multibillion dollars. He invented
several novel gas separation and liquefaction processes that
have been used to produce the world's largest natural gas liquefaction
plant, ultra high purity gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon,
ammonia, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) etc. for the electronic
industry and several highly energy efficient gas liquefaction
plants.
At Purdue University, Prof. Agarwal is creating solutions for
a future based on solar energy as well as for a transition from
the current fossil resource based economy. His group is developing
new energy system models, novel biomass to liquid fuel processes
with high yields of liquid fuel, nanocrystal ink based printable
thin film solar cells, and highly energy efficient separation
processes.
He has published over one hundred technical papers and has given
over 125 invited lectures explaining the concepts underlying
his inventions/research, and some of these fundamental concepts
in separations are included in Chemical Engineering textbooks
and taught in classrooms. Prof. Agarwal has received several
awards including the J & E Hall Gold Medal from the Institute
of Refrigeration (UK), the Presidential Citation for Outstanding
Achievement from the University of Delaware, the Industrial
Research Institute (IRI) Achievement Award, the C. K. Murthy
Memorial Lecture (IIChE); and from the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers (AIChE): Gerhold, Excellence in Industrial
Gases Technology, Institute Lecture, Chemical Engineering Practice,
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division and Founders awards. He was
a Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He has served as a Director on the AIChE's Board and is currently
on the Technical Advisory boards of the Dow Chemical Co. Genomatica,
Weyerhaeuser, and ATMI. He is also a member of the US National
Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National
Academy of Engineering.
The
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur was conferred on Prof. Rakesh Agarwal for his outstanding
contributions to research and development in Chemical Engineering.
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Mr.
Vasudev Chanchlani completed his M. Tech. in
Industrial & Management Engineering in 1976 from IIT Kanpur
and obtained an M.B.A. from the Rotman Business School, University
of Toronto. He is a serial entrepreneur and a philanthropist.
Shri Chanchlani began his career with Tata Consultancy Services
followed by senior roles at the Nortel Networks. But it is his
high-tech entrepreneurial journey that created business and
social capital which he later leveraged for the larger good.
His technology ventures attracted world class strategic investor's
like Cisco Systems and venture capitalists like Kleiner Perkins.
Known in the Canadian business circle as the 'entrepreneur of
entrepreneurs', Shri Chanchlani has exited from six technology
ventures and is presently involved in about twenty businesses.
One of his current companies, Sigma Systems can be characterized
as the intelligence and processing engine behind the Operational
Support Systems of the world's leading Cable, Telecommunications
and Entertainment companies. He has also made investments in
India in areas where India offers strategic advantage to global
corporations.
Shri Chanchlani is engaged in many projects and activities that
give India and Indians global recognition for their achievements.
His philanthropic leadership has created an ecosystem that nurtures
and promotes philanthropy for trans-national initiatives. The
'Canada India Foundation (CIF) Chanchlani Global Indian Award'
recognizes the global success and leadership of Indians and
past award recipients include Shri Ratan Tata, Shri Deepak Chopra,
Shri Tulsi Tanti, and Shri Sam Pitroda. He co-founded the CIF
and helped endow the 'Chanchlani India Public Policy Center'
at the University of Waterloo to further deepen engagement in
the Canada-India corridor, and for Indian contemporary studies.
He also funded the 'Chanchlani Global Health Research Centre'
and the annual 'Chanchlani Global Health Research Award' at
McMaster University and the 'Chanchlani Centre for the South
Asian Engagement' at the University of Toronto.
Shri Chanchlani is also engaged in and supports endowments such
as the annual CNIB Chanchlani Global Vision Research Award with
the Canadian National Institute for Blind; the Canadian Fallen
Soldier Foundation, to provide financial and other support to
the wards of the families of the fallen soldiers, and the Smt.
Jamnabai Chanchlani AIM for the Seva Student Home, Hoshangabad
in India.
Accolades celebrate his professional, entrepreneurial and philanthropic
success. In the last few years Shri Chanchlani was awarded the
'Technology Achievement Award' by the Indo-Canada Chamber of
Commerce, the 'Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year' Finalist
Award, South Asian Person of the Year Award, Entrepreneur of
the Year Award, Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award, Top 30 Power
List of Indo-Canadians and Grant's Community Achievement award,
the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce President's Award, CIBC-IIFA
Global Business Leadership Award and many more.
The
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur was conferred on Shri Vasudev Chanchlani for providing
strategic direction in business development and outstanding
entrepreneurial skills, and philanthropic activities.
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Prof.
Jayathi Y. Murthy received her Bachelor of Technology
in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1979 and Ph.D.
from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1984. She is currently the Department
Chair of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at
Austin and holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering.
Prof. Murthy is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME).
Prof. Murthy has worked in both academia and industry, having
spent over ten years at Fluent Inc., a leading computational
fluid dynamics software company, before moving to Carnegie Mellon
University in 1998 as Associate Professor in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering. From 2001 - 2011, she was a Professor
in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University,
and held the Robert V. Adams Chair from 2008 to 2011. She also
serves as Director of PRISM, a National Nuclear Security Administration
(NNSA) funded centre for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity
and Survivability of Microsystems.
Prof. Murthy's research interests lie in the field of computational
heat transfer and fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on the development
of unstructured, solution-adaptive finite volume methods for
industrial applications. More recently, her work has focused
on the analysis of micro scale heat transfer, particularly in
emerging microelectronics applications. Prof. Murthy serves
on the K-16 and K-20 committees of ASME.
Author of over 275 technical papers and reports Prof. Murthy
has also authored, several book chapters on numerical methods,
and has edited two volumes on heat transfer and CFD. She is
an editor of the second edition of the Handbook of Numerical
Heat Transfer, serves on the editorial boards of the Numerical
Heat Transfer and the International Journal of Thermal Sciences,
and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of
Heat Transfer.
Prof. Murthy is the recipient of the IBM faculty partnership
award 2003-2005, the 2004 Journal of Electronics Packaging Best
Paper award, the 2009 ASME EPPD Woman Engineer of the Year award,
the 2009 Purdue University Team Excellence award, and Purdue
Acorn award for 2006-2011.
The
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur was conferred on Professor Jayathi Y. Murthy for her
outstanding contribution towards developing powerful analysis
tools and techniques for the industry and for having played
a transformative role in redefining the design process of fluid
and thermal systems.
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