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DIAT (DU) NEWSLETTER A Quarterly House Bulletin of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, (Deemed University), Pune

Vol. 2 No. 2 April 2012

SIXTH CONVOCATION, DIAT (DU) PUNE

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Prithviraj Chavan Delivering the 6

th Convocation Address and interacting with

Dr. VK Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri and Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU).

Dr. VK Saraswat SA to the RM,

Delivering the Presidential Address

The sixth convocation of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (Deemed University), Pune was held on 28th May 2012. Honorable Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri. Prithviraj Chavan was the Chief Guest and delivered the Convocation Address. He presented Gold Medals to the toppers of the various M. Tech. Programs. Dr.VK Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri & Chairman, Governing Council of DIAT (DU), Pune presided over the function, delivered the Presidential Address and distributed the Degree Certificates. A total of 200 students comprising 24 DRDO personnel, 63 Tri Services Officers, 65 Foreign Students and 57 Scholarship students were conferred degrees. Following is the programme wise breakup.

Hon’ble Vice Chancellor,

Dr. Prahlada, Delivering Welcome Address

Ph.D. Applied Chemistry (1) Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering (2) M.S. (By Research) – Aerospace Engineering (3) M.S. (By Research) Computer Engineering (1) M.S. (By Research) Applied Physics (1) M.S. (By Research) Electronics Engineering (1) M. Tech. Aerospace Engineering (Guided Missiles) (8) M. Tech. Aerospace Engineering (Air Armament) (5) M. Tech. Automotive Engineering (14) M. Tech. Mechanical Engineering (Marine) (12)

M.Tech. Electronics Engineering (Signal Processing and Communication) (24) M.Tech. Electronics Engineering (Radar & Communication) (2) M.Tech. Modelling and Simulation (21) M.Tech. Laser and Electro Optics (32), M.Tech. High Energy Materials (3) M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering (Weapons) (13) M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering (Gas Turbine Technology) (17) M.Tech. Computer Science Engineering (31)

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Receiving the Ph.D. Degree and Gold Medal

Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Presenting the Memento to Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister, Maharashtra

Academic Council Members and Dignitaries

International Conference on Functional Materials for Defence (ICFMD-2012)

The 1st International Conference on Functional

Materials for Defence (ICFMD 2012) was held at DIAT (DU) Pune from 18-20

th May 2012, jointly organized by

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) DU Pune, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), USA and Office of Naval Research GLobal (ONRG) USA. The welcome address was given by Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU), and the Patron of the conference, ICFMD 2012. Dr. P.K. Khanna, Chairman, ICFMD 2012 introduced the guests and the participants with a welcome note on functional materials for defence.

Invocation Lighting of Lamp

The conference was inaugurated by Dr. J Narayana Das, Chief Controller Research & Development (NS & M) DRDO followed by key note addresses by Dr. Young W Kwon of Naval Post Graduate School, California, USA, and Dr. Gabriel D Roy Office of Naval Research (Global), USA. At the end of the inaugural function, vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Balasubramanian K, Convener, ICFMD 2012. The inaugural programme was coordinated by the Co-convener, Dr. S.N. Kale. The primary objective of the conference was to bring together, the experts from various

Welcome address by

Dr. Prahlada, VC.

Address by the Chief Guest,

Dr. Narayana Das, CC R&D (NS&M) DRDO

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Key Note Address by Prof. Young Kwon, NPS, USA

Key Note Address by Dr. G. D. Roy, ONR(G), USA

Launching of ICFMD 2012 Abstract Book

academic, industries and research organizations devoted to various domains of functional materials in defence and security areas. Approximately 220 participants attended the conference and 40 invited speakers (12 from foreign nations like USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, Serbia etc and 28 from India) delivered lectures on functional materials that have direct applications in defence and security. ICFMD 2012 brought together researchers, scientists, engineers and scholarly students from reputed institutes such as IITs, NITs, DRDO labs, CSIR labs, DST organisation, and Universities. The theme areas that were covered in ICFMD 2012 are Modelling and simulations; Advance metal Alloys and materials for defence applications; Advanced ceramics and engineering materials; Functional Materials; Nano structure materials and Nano Technology; Smart materials, MEMS, NEMS Devices; Polymers, Biomaterials and composites; Advanced material Characterisations; High energy materials; Photovoltaic, Photonics and Fuel cells; Bio Materials, Nano Medicines and Nano BioTechnology. ICFMD 2012 has provided an opportunity to research scholars, academicians, engineers to present technical papers in the form of poster and oral presentations. Conference committee received about 250 abstracts from various research institutions for the poster and oral presentation sessions. The abstract selection committee selected 168 papers for poster presentation sessions and 13 papers for oral presentation. A subject expert committee chaired by Dr Balasubramanian K comprising Dr. Andrew C Grimsdale, Dr.Loredana Casalis, Dr. Adrian Hillier, Dr. Gabriel D Roy and Dr. Michael Sheriff, evaluated all the posters and selected 5 best posters. The committee also selected 2 best oral presentations. These selections were based on the science, technology, applications and novelty of the research areas. A special award with a cash prize of 200 USD was sponsored by Dr Gabriel.D.Roy, ONR(G) for a poster (Swati Sakare, Sahebrao Kashid and Rajesh Raut, The Institute of Science, Mumbai)in view of its novel and direct application to the defence sector.

Panel Discussion

The conference concluded with a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Prahlada (Patron and VC of DIAT, Pune). The panel comprised of Dr Sheriff Michael, NPS, USA, Dr. Young Kwon, NPS, USA, Dr. Andrew Grimsdale, NTU, Singapore, Dr. Loredena Cassalis, Italy, and Dr Gabriel D. Roy, ONR(G). The panel interacted with the participants and it was proposed that more contribution and participation should be encouraged from defence related industries. The conference concluded with a valedictory function and vote of thanks by Dr. Suwarna Datar.

A Short Course on Systems Engineering Principles and Practice

A short course on “Systems Engineering Principles and Practices” was conducted at DIAT (DU) during 7–11th May

2012. Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, had inaugurated the programme. In his opening remarks, he brought out the importance and significance of Systems Engineering in executing projects effectively and efficiently. Systems Engineering (SE) has evolved over the last two decades as a discipline that provides guidelines and methodologies to help in delivering systems on time and within the budget while meeting the user requirements. Its principles and practices are particularly important to be put in place and adhered to in the context of complex engineering systems and, in particular, Aerospace Systems. Systems Engineering Advisory Board (SEAB) is a recent initiative of the DRDO to formulate steps regarding assimilation of Systems Engineering practices within various DRDO organizations. SEAB and CASDE of IIT Bombay have jointly conceived the overall concept of the course.

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The course introduced basic ideas about Systems, Systems Thinking, Systems Architecture and highlighted the role of a Systems Engineer in Systems Architecture, supporting the project to capture and manage requirements, providing impact and traceability of requirements. Industry experts stepped in to provide case studies in Testing, Technology Management, Trade Studies and Utilities. The following topics were covered during the course: Introduction to Systems Engineering; Systems Architecture; Decision Making; Requirements in Systems Engineering; Testing; Case Study: Systems Architecture and Requirements; Systems Engineering Tools Concept Generation/Selection; QFD Methodology; Case Study: Testing; Work Breakdown Structure; Project Management and Open Ended Problem Solving.

Eminent speakers such as Dr. Kota Harinarayana, Director, ADA Bangalore; Dr. BN Suresh, Former Director VSSC; Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU), Dr. SC Srimali, Mr. PNAP Rao, Wg. Cdr (Retd.) PK Ranveendran and Mr. J Jayaraman from ADA Bangalore, Prof. K Sudhakar, Prof. PM Mujumdar, Prof. Hemendra Arya and Prof. Ashok Joshi from Department of Aerospace Engineering IIT Bombay, Dr. Reena Sharma, Sc „F‟ and Dr. R Rajesh Sc „D‟ from CABS delivered lectures. Dr. SE Talole, Chief coordinator and HOD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mr. Jaywant Kolhe, Sc „B‟and Mr. Vinay Anand Yadav, Asst. Professor, organized the programme. 21 participants attended the programme. The course concluded on 11

th May 2012. Dr. Kota Harinarayana presented certificates to the participants.

Dr. B. Bowonder Reading Lounge Dr. B. Bowonder was a renowned scientist, an extremely prolific researcher and a dedicated teacher. His passion, commitment and energy in promoting technology management and leadership are well known. Mrs V. Bowonder has generously donated around 6,000 collections of books, personal reports, journals and management related publications to DIAT (DU) Library. A separate reading room-cum-display hall was created as a befitting tribute to Dr. B. Bowonder for his dedicated service to scientific and management community.

Dr. VK Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri & Chairman, Governing Council, DIAT (DU) Inaugurating Dr. B. Bowonder

Reading Lounge, at IC&L, DIAT (DU)

Browsing the Books Chief Guest Signing the Visitors Book

Felicitating of Mrs. V. Bowonder by Dr. VK Saraswat, SA to RM

New Display Room and Reading Hall

Dr. VK Saraswat, SA to RM, and Chairman, Governing Council, DIAT (DU) inaugurated “Dr. B. Bowonder Reading

Lounge” and felicitated Mrs. Vijaylakshmi Bowonder at a function organized by Information Centre & Library, DIAT on

28th May 2012. Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU) presided over the function. AVM PP Kandekar, Director,

MILIT, Dr. Salwan, DRDO HQrs, Dr.YSR Rajan, Col. AK Suri, CCE (W), Dr. AK Singh, DHRD, DRDO HQrs, Col KN

Singh, Addl CCE (W), and other invited dignitaries graced the function. The HODs, Faculty and Staff members of the

DIAT (DU) and MILIT were also participated in the function.

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National Conference on “cyber SecurIty” (nccS-2012)

The First National Conference on “Cyber Security” (NCCS-2012) was held at DIAT (DU) during 7-8th June 2012. The

objective of the conference was to help Government, Defence and Commercial Organizations which are facing serious challenges in the field of Cyber Security. Network Exploitation and Cyber Crimes are on the rise. Many countries are raising Cyber Army to mitigate the Cyber threats. It is believed that future wars will be fought in Cyber Space. The conference was organized by Department of Computer Engineering, DIAT (DU) in association with Special Interest Group – Information Security (SIG-IS) and Computer Society of India (CSI). The conference was sponsored by industry partners like CISCO, Microsoft, Lab-Systems, Uniken, Fortinet and CyberRoam. The guests and participants were welcomed by Shri Mizaji Lal, Sc-F, Chairman of the conference.

Welcome address by Vice

Chancellor Address by Dr. S. V.

Raghavan Key Note Address by Dr. C. R.

Chakravarthy, Launching of NCCS 2012 Proceedings

The inaugural address was given by Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU). Dr. Arati M. Dixit, HOD, Dept. of Computer Engineering and Convener of the conference introduced the conference and its significance. The Guest of Honor Dr. C. R. Chakravarthy, Chairman, CSI-SIG-Information Security delivered an informative talk on Cyber Security. The conference was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Dr. S. V. Raghavan, Scientific Secretary, Office of PSA to Government of India. The Chief Guest enlightened the audience with his talk on Cyber Security and NKN. The vote of thanks was given by Mrs. Manisha Nene. The conference covered topics such as

Vice Chancellor presenting the memento to the Chief Guest

Network Security, Cloud Computing Security, Cryptography & Cryptanalysis, Threat Modeling, Wireless Security, Digital Forensics, Information Security, Information Warfare, Information Assurance & Security Management, Intrusion Detection & Prevention, Digital Watermarking & Steganography, Security Architectures, and Fraud Detection & Legal Issues. The Conference was marked by a series of invited talks by dignitaries from Research Labs, Academia, Defence and Industry. Dr. G. Athithan, O.S and Associate Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), Bangalore was invited to give a talk on “Role of Models and Cryptography in Cyber Security”.

An invited talk by Sqn Ldr Arif Shouqi (Retd), Chief Defence Architect, Asia Pacific Region, CISCO updated the participants on “Cyber Security: A Tangled Web”. A talk on “Zero Knowledge Protocol” was orated by Dr. C Pandu Rangan, Professor, IIT Madras. Dr. Shashikala Gurpur, Director, Symbiosis Law School, Pune and Dean, Symbiosis International University threw light on the need for stringent Cyber Laws in India during her talk. Dr. M Sethumadhavan, Professor, Amrita University an invited speaker, discussed on “Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions for Cryptography”. Mr. Sanjay Deshpande, CEO, Uniken delivered an invited talk on “Private Internet Circuits”. He explained the need to establish on demand circuits over the internet for secure communications. Mr. Sagar Joshi from Microsoft delivered a talk on “Threat Modeling, the fundamental approach to secure application development”. More than 120 participants from the Government, Defence, Academics and Industry participated in the conference. The 32 shortlisted papers were presented in the conference by respective authors. NCCS 2012 provided a platform to researchers, scientists, engineers and scholarly students from reputed institutes such as IITs, NIITs, DRDO labs, CSIR labs, DST organization, and Universities to present their research work. The participants got exposure to various aspects of Cyber Security and were benefited by the variety of topics discussed by invited speakers who are experts in their respective areas.

COURSE ON “HIGH POWER LASERS” Department of Applied Physics conducted a course on “High Power Lasers” during 9-27

th April 2012. Dr. S Sundaram, DS &

Director IRDE inaugurated the course. A total of 14 participants from different organizations attended course. All the participants presented seminars related to their area of work at their respective Labs. An instructional visit was undertaken by all the participants to RRCAT, Dept of Atomic Energy, INDORE on 23

rd

April 2012. Prof Sangeeta Kale, Course Director and Dr. Tejashree Bhave & Mr. B B Padhy, course co-ordinators organized the programme.

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DIAT (DU)’s EXTERNAL AGENCIES AND LINKAGES

Dr Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT addressing the Valedictory Session

Dr.Prahlada, Chaired the Peer Review Meeting of Integrated Aerostat Surveillance System, Long Size (71 M class) at DRDO HQs, New Delhi on 9

th April 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chief Guest for the Valedictory Session of the 43rd

Mid Term Symposium „ICT in Education’ Organized by IETE - Pune Chapter on 15

th April 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chaired the Review Meeting of “Critical Design Review of Project Sudarshan” at ADE Bengaluru on 18

th April 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chief Guest for “Amritotsava”, the Institution Day Celebration at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru on 26

th April 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Delivered Prof. B R Narayan Iyengar Memorial Lecture on “Students of the Country to Engineers for the Nation” at IEI, Karnataka State Centre, Bengaluru on 27

th April 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chief Guest for “National Technology Day” Celebration at R & DE (E), Pune on 12th May 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chief Guest for National Workshop on “Geo - Spatial Technologies and Applications” at Manav Rachana University, New Delhi during 30-31

st May 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chaired the Meeting of “C-CADD‟s Scientific Committee” at NAL, Bengaluru on 5th June 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, Chief Guest and Delivered the Inaugural Address at the CAPS Seminar on “CAPS Seminar on BMD and Countermeasure: Issues and Implications for India" Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi on 27

th June 2012.

Dr.Prahlada, participated in the “Orientation for Newly Appointed/Designated Directors of DRDO Labs” at DRDO HQs, New Delhi on 28

th June 2012.

natIonal SemInar on “emerGInG tecHnoloGIeS In mIcro & nano manuFacturInG”

A three day national seminar on “Emerging Technologies in Micro and Nano Manufacturing” was organized in collaboration with DAE-Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS)-Mumbai by the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a part of “Diamond Jubilee Celebration” of the DIAT (DU) during 12

th -

14th June, 2012.

The basic objective of the seminar was to address and discuss the existing trends in research and development in the area of Micro and Nano technologies and their applications, together with the challenges and opportunities that they represent for research community and industry in designing and implementing new manufacturing platforms. Dr S. Guruprasad, OS and Director R&D Engineers Pune, as Chief Guest, inaugurated the seminar and delivered a lecture on “MEMS activities in DRDO Labs”. The Hon‟ble Vice Chancellor Dr. Prahlada delivered the presidential address which highlighted the significance and importance of Micro and Nano technologies. He brought out systematic approaches to address research issues in Micro and Nano thrust area. Dr. DG Thakur, Organizing Secretary welcomed gathering and highlighted the journey of Micro to Nano technology. Dr. PK Khanna, Dean (Acad) shared his views on importance of Nano technologies in the area of Science and Engineering. Dr SK Panigrahi HoD, Department of Mechanical Engineering highlighted research activities. The seminar was addressed by Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Scientific Officer, BARC-Mumbai; Dr.J Ramkumar, IIT-Kanpur; Mr. PVS Subrahmanyam, GM, SITAR-Bangalore; Dr. AshokKumar Pandey, IIT-Hyderabad; Dr. Ramesh Singh, IIT-Bombay, Dr. Karunanidhi, Sc „G‟ RCI-Hyderabad; Dr. Madusudan Reddy,Sc „G‟ DMRL-Hyderabad; Mr. Balashanmugam, Head, NMTC, CMTI-Bangalore; D.r Girish, Scientist, CEMET-Pune and Dr. BS Murthy, IIT-Madras.

Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor Presenting Memento to Dr S. Guruprasad, Director R&D Engineers Pune and

Shri AK Chakrabarti, Director, DRDL-Hyderabad

Participants of the National Seminar

Around 40 participants from DRDO Labs (RCI, DMRL, DRDL, CVRD, R&D Engrs), Service Officers, Faculty members from Engineering colleges and Universities and Research scholars attended the seminar. Shri AK Chakrabarti, OS and Director, DRDL-Hyderabad was the Chief Guest of Valedictory function. He distributed certificates to the participants and interacted with them. Hon‟ble Vice Chancellor Dr. Prahlada in his presidential remark reviewed the developments during valedictory function. Dr AK Kumaraswamy, Organizing Secretary proposed the vote of thanks.

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Patents Filing

Title: “Anti Corrosive Coating Based On Waste Thermoplastic Material” (1113/MUM/2012) Inventor: Dr. K Balasubramanian, Head Materials Engineering Dept., and Co-Inventors: Prajith Pillai, Prashant B. Rule, D.D. Gunjal

Features: Anti Corrosive properties; Flame and fire retardant; High barrier properties against oxygen and moisture; Saline resistant; UV resistant and Temperature resistant up to 80

0 C

Applications: Coating material for water pipe line, fire fighting pipe lines, sewage lines etc.

Title: “Materials and Method for Road Construction” (1209/MUM/2012) Inventor: Dr. K Balasubramanian, Head Department of Materials Engineering and Co-Inventor: Sachin Jadhav

Features: Utilization of waste rubber tubes and tires; No cryogenic grinding of tubes or tires; Low quantity of Bitumen and gravels; Good cracking resistance; Higher load bearing capacity; Good anti skidding properties and Cost effective and eco friendly. Applications: Park and play area surfacing, Anti skidding roads and anti damping tiles.

Title: “Materials and Method for Synthesis of Metals” (1614/MUM/2012) Inventor: Dr. K Balasubramanian, Head Department of Materials Engineering and Co-inventor: Renuka R Gonte. Features: Polymer filter/membrane/bead for synthesis of highly mono dispersed nano gold from effluent waste; Thermal stability of the filter up to 4000C and Simplest and cost effective method of crystalline nano gold synthesis Applications: Applications likely in targeted drug delivery.

Board of Studies Meeting

Department of Electronics conducted BOS meeting on 1st

May 2012 for M.Tech: Radar and Communication and 7th

May 2012 for M.Tech: Defence Electronic System

Visit Naik, K. Krishna (Dr.), Lengade, Vipul and Tyagi, Neeti. Team of DIAT (DU) visited ADA Bangalore for the project “Digital Communication Scheme for Tejas” during 14-17

th May 2012.

Case Study:

Author/s Title Department Proprietary Owner

Ahsan Z Rizvi, and Dr.C Bhattacharya

Labview Schematics for Efficient Computation of CBS through 3-Phase Network Model. 2012

Electronics National Instruments (NI), USA

Project Review:

Date Project Sponsoring Agency

03.04.2012 Digital Communication Scheme for Tejas Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore

PUBLICATIONS:

Articles (Journals):

Dimple Kumari; Balakshe, Ravikant; Banerjee, Shaibal and Singh, Haridwar. “Energetic Plasticizers for Gun and Rocket Propellants.” Review Journal of Chemistry. Vol. 2 (3) 2012. pp. 240–262.

Garg, Manish and Singh, Upasna. “C&R Tree based Air Target Classification using Kinematics”, International Journal of Computer & Communication Technology.Vo.1 (1), 2012. pp:15-21.

Gonte, Renuka R and Balasubramanian K. “Chemically Modified Polymer Beads for Sorption of Gold from Waste Gold Solution” Journal of Hazardous Materials. Vol. 217-218, 2012. pp. 447-451 (Impact factor 3.997).

Hadagali, G S; Krishnamurthy, C; Pattar, Vijay; Kumbar, B D, “Knowledge Management in Libraries: A new perspective for the library professionals in the competitive world” International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology. Vol.2 (1), Jan- Mar 2012. pp. 34-37.

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Khanna, P. K., Kate, K., Dhanabalan, K., Banerjee, S., Reji, N., Shinde,S. D., Jain, G. H. "Sono-Chemical Synthesis of ZnO Nano-Particles and Their Application in Hydrogen Sulphide Gas Sensing" Journal of Nanosci. Nanotechnol. Vol. 12, 2012. pp. 2791-2796.

Rajkumar and Choubey, Nayana. “On the Design of Tree-type Ultra Wideband Fractal Antenna for DS-CDMA System.” Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetics Applications, Vol. 11(1), June 2012, pp.107-121.

Rajkumar and Pritam, N.B “Modified Ground Apollonian Ultra Wideband Fractal Antenna and its Backscattering.” International Journal of Electronics and Communication, Vol. 66 (8), pp.647-654.

Rajkumar and Srikanth, I. “Design of Apollonian Gasket UWB Antenna with Modified Ground Plane”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 54 (8), August 2012. pp.1793-1796.

Rajput, P S. and Choudhary, Manoj Kumar. “Digital Libraries Boon for LIS Professionals: Challenges and Initiatives.” ISST Journal of Advances in Librarianship. Vol. 2(2), July-Dec 2011. pp.25-28.

Thorat, Swapnil and Rajkumar, “Design of Rectangular-Cut Circular Disc UWB Antenna with Band-Notched Characteristics.” International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 4(5), May 2012, pp.1851-1857.

Articles (Conference):

Garg, Manish and Singh, Upasna, “Comparative Analysis of Diverse Approaches for Air Target Classification based on Radar Track Data”, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Organized by Springer, Delhi, 25-27 May, 2012, pp: 461-470.

Attended Conferences /Workshops /Seminars

Sirurmath, SS. (Dr.), attended workshop on “Emerging Research Trends in LIS” on Saturday, 19th May 2012

Organized by Tata Institute of Social Science and Bombay Science Librarians Association, Mumbai.

Sirurmath, SS. (Dr.), attended national workshop on “DRDO E-Journals Service” organized by Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi in collaboration with Institute of Technology Management (ITM) during 22- 23

rd June 2012 at ITM, Mussoorie.

Singh, Upasna, attended course on „Ethical Hacking and Counter Measures', from 17-21st April 2012 at ESCI,

Hyderabad.

Pattar, Vijay, attended one day seminar on “Knowledge Repository of DRDO Technical Reports” on 4th May

2012 at HEMRL, Pune. Resource Persons:

Khanna, P.K (Dr.) Dean (Academics) & HOD, AC, had attended an international conference “Fundamental and Applied Nano Electro Magnetic (FANEM‟12)” as an invited speaker during 22

nd – 25

th May 2012 at

Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus. He delivered a lecture on “Magic Number Nanocrystals by Chemical Methods and their Potential Applications”. His participation was financially supported by organizers of FANEM‟12. He also a chaired a session in the conference.

Thakur, D G (Dr.), Appointed as a Advisory Committee member of World Bank funded “Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP)” DTE, Govt. of Maharashtra, 2012.

Thakur, D G (Dr.), delivered a key note address on “Student Centered Teaching Learning Process” in the Two day workshop on “Enhancing Effectiveness of Teaching Learning Process” held during 18-19

th, June 2012

at Maharashtra Academy of Engineering-Pune. Chaired Technical Sessions:

Thakur, D G (Dr.), Chaired the Technical Session on “Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering” in the conference on “SPICON-2012” held during 31

st May- 2

nd June, 2012 at SP College of Engineering-Andheri,

Mumbai.

Kumaraswamy, A (Dr), Chaired the technical session on “Engineering Design and Materials” and delivered a lead talk during the conference on 'Technology Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering" held on 2

nd Jun 2012, at

St. Joseph College of Engineering &Technology, Palai, Kerala.

The Editorial Team thanks all the Faculty, Scientists and Staff members for their contributions, and indebted to Dr. K. Balasubramanian, Dr. Shaibal Banerjee and Mr. T V Ananthasubramanian for their inputs.

Editorial Board Members Chief Editor Dr. Sangayya S Sirurmath University Librarian Head, Information Center and Library, DIAT (DU), Pune 411 025

Members Mr. Vijay D Pattar Ms. Shweta Gupta Mr. Vimlesh Patel Mr. Vikrant Gurmitkal (Photographs)

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